Remote assistance

[Lew Sterrett]

USER does not have Remote Assistance installed (or it is
disabled) and is not able to accept your invitation.

This is the error message i recieve when i send an
invitation for remote assistance to another machine. They
both are identical builds of WINXP and Windows Messenger
4.7

[Lucky One]

Is remote assistance enabled right click on my computer go to properties
and on the remote tab tick the
remote assistance

"Lew Sterrett" > wrote in message
...
> USER does not have Remote Assistance installed (or it is
> disabled) and is not able to accept your invitation.
>
> This is the error message i recieve when i send an
> invitation for remote assistance to another machine. They
> both are identical builds of WINXP and Windows Messenger
> 4.7

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Greeting Lew,

On the PC that supposedly "doesn't have Remote Assistance installed", assuming the Windows
installation is in
C:\Windows (if it's not, you'll have to edit the drive letter in the file in Notepad before
running), just run this .reg file, reboot and it should work again:
http://messenger.jonathankay.com/downloads/remoteassistance.reg
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Windows MVP, Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com

"Lew Sterrett" > wrote in message
...
> USER does not have Remote Assistance installed (or it is
> disabled) and is not able to accept your invitation.
>
> This is the error message i recieve when i send an
> invitation for remote assistance to another machine. They
> both are identical builds of WINXP and Windows Messenger
> 4.7