Messenger Has Encountered a Problem...

OK! I have the answer to this one now!
Control Panel/Administrative Controls/Services/Messenger
Then find the options panel and the disable controls.
Then disable it. Reboot and you're fixed. At least I
was. I hope it works for you too. =)

>-----Original Message-----
>....and needs to close---
>
>I'm running Windows XP
>
>AppName: msmsgs.exe AppVer: 4.7.0.2009 ModName:
rtcdll.dll
>ModVer: 5.1.2600.1106 Offset: 0000ae3f
>
>I have uninstalled, reinstalled version 6.2. I have
>tried to uninstall it hoping to get rid of this problem
>that way but, of course, that is useless. I tried to
>disable the startup for messenger in msconfig but that
>had no effect. I also ran a registration cleaning bot
>through it but no dice.
>This this is ruining my machine. It pops up the error
>screen every minute or so. I can't even push them to
the
>background. If I reinstall Messenger it spams me with
30
>or 40 "search for contact" windows that gleefully inform
>me that my 'contacts' are not online and to try again
>later. Earlier this evening I ran my Windows disk back
>through the install process hoping that might help. No
>luck. Any ideas would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>.
>