Seen this to on one of my systems rite out of the box never did figure out
what was wrong.
both seprate programs work fine.

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"Bobbi" wrote in message
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Whenever I open media center, I get this message - 'Media Center was
unable to
open Messenger. Please make sure that Windows Messenger is installed on
your
machine.' - although messenger is open at the time. Can anyone help me?