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MSN Messenger 5, cant right click, plese help!
Hi all, i have a little problem with messenger 5, for the last few days i
have been nable to right click during a conversation chat, which is a shame as i do copy and pastes very often.I even uninstalled it and then reinstalled it but its still the same. Thing is that the XPmessenger 4.7... works fine. Anyone has any suggestions, apart from using the XP's one. Many thanks |
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MSN Messenger 5, cant right click, plese help!
Greetings Francesco,
The exact cause of this has yet to be determined. Instead, use the keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl-C to Copy, and Ctrl-V to Paste) or click the Edit menu in the conversation window. ____________________________________________ Jonathan Kay Windows MVP, Messenger Associate Expert http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/ Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com "Francesco" wrote in message ... Hi all, i have a little problem with messenger 5, for the last few days i have been nable to right click during a conversation chat, which is a shame as i do copy and pastes very often.I even uninstalled it and then reinstalled it but its still the same. Thing is that the XPmessenger 4.7... works fine. Anyone has any suggestions, apart from using the XP's one. Many thanks |
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MSN Messenger 5, cant right click, plese help!
Why did you install MSN-Messenger ?
The latest Windows Xp version is 4.7 something ! If your operating system = Windows XP, than you should stick to WINDOWS-Messenger. I am sorry for you if you have been unfaithful ................. "Francesco" wrote in message ... Hi all, i have a little problem with messenger 5, for the last few days i have been nable to right click during a conversation chat, which is a shame as i do copy and pastes very often.I even uninstalled it and then reinstalled it but its still the same. Thing is that the XPmessenger 4.7... works fine. Anyone has any suggestions, apart from using the XP's one. Many thanks |
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MSN Messenger 5, cant right click, plese help!
MSN Messenger 5.0 was also made for Windows XP. So, there is no reason why
he cannot use the program. There are a lot of us that are using it, simply because it supports UPnP File transfer. The issue with no context menu to paste text into a conversation is a known issue, the part that is currently unknown is why it is happening. It has nothing to do with the fact that he is running it on Windows XP. -- Erik Running: Windows XP Professional SP1 "No Spam" wrote in message ... Why did you install MSN-Messenger ? The latest Windows Xp version is 4.7 something ! If your operating system = Windows XP, than you should stick to WINDOWS-Messenger. I am sorry for you if you have been unfaithful ................. "Francesco" wrote in message ... Hi all, i have a little problem with messenger 5, for the last few days i have been nable to right click during a conversation chat, which is a shame as i do copy and pastes very often.I even uninstalled it and then reinstalled it but its still the same. Thing is that the XPmessenger 4.7... works fine. Anyone has any suggestions, apart from using the XP's one. Many thanks |
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MSN Messenger 5, cant right click, plese help!
Ok ! Then why are there 2 versions anyway ?
M$ is pulling us a leg aren't they ? "Erik" wrote in message ... MSN Messenger 5.0 was also made for Windows XP. So, there is no reason why he cannot use the program. There are a lot of us that are using it, simply because it supports UPnP File transfer. The issue with no context menu to paste text into a conversation is a known issue, the part that is currently unknown is why it is happening. It has nothing to do with the fact that he is running it on Windows XP. -- Erik Running: Windows XP Professional SP1 "No Spam" wrote in message ... Why did you install MSN-Messenger ? The latest Windows Xp version is 4.7 something ! If your operating system = Windows XP, than you should stick to WINDOWS-Messenger. I am sorry for you if you have been unfaithful ................. "Francesco" wrote in message ... Hi all, i have a little problem with messenger 5, for the last few days i have been nable to right click during a conversation chat, which is a shame as i do copy and pastes very often.I even uninstalled it and then reinstalled it but its still the same. Thing is that the XPmessenger 4.7... works fine. Anyone has any suggestions, apart from using the XP's one. Many thanks |
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MSN Messenger 5, cant right click, plese help!
There are two versions because they were split.
When Windows XP came out, the idea was that MSN Messenger would be the IM client for non-XP users. Windows Messenger would be the "MSN" IM client for XP users. At some point during the MSN 5.0 Beta, MSN 5.0 was an "upgrade" to Windows Messenger 4.7, it even upgraded over Windows Messenger 4.7 so you only had one version. Towards the end of the beta, someone high up at Microsoft decided that the MSN Development team would develop MSN Messenger 5.x and all future versions. This same person, assigned the Windows Development team the job of developing all future versions of Windows Messenger. At this time, it was also decided that Windows Messenger would lose some of it's features, these included Tabs and the ability to "make a phone call". It was also decided that, since they are two separate programs, that the MSN versions should be available to be used on the XP platform, and this was done. Future versions of Windows Messenger will now run on Windows 2000, but it won't run on any other previous versions of Windows. I have heard that in the future, the decision to split the two into separate versions will become clear. We'll just have to be patient and wait to see it all come together. Who knows, one day, there may be only one version again, but, I won't hold my breath on that one. -- Erik Running: Windows XP Professional SP1 "No Spam" wrote in message ... Ok ! Then why are there 2 versions anyway ? M$ is pulling us a leg aren't they ? "Erik" wrote in message ... MSN Messenger 5.0 was also made for Windows XP. So, there is no reason why he cannot use the program. There are a lot of us that are using it, simply because it supports UPnP File transfer. The issue with no context menu to paste text into a conversation is a known issue, the part that is currently unknown is why it is happening. It has nothing to do with the fact that he is running it on Windows XP. -- Erik Running: Windows XP Professional SP1 "No Spam" wrote in message ... Why did you install MSN-Messenger ? The latest Windows Xp version is 4.7 something ! If your operating system = Windows XP, than you should stick to WINDOWS-Messenger. I am sorry for you if you have been unfaithful ................. "Francesco" wrote in message ... Hi all, i have a little problem with messenger 5, for the last few days i have been nable to right click during a conversation chat, which is a shame as i do copy and pastes very often.I even uninstalled it and then reinstalled it but its still the same. Thing is that the XPmessenger 4.7... works fine. Anyone has any suggestions, apart from using the XP's one. Many thanks |
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MSN Messenger 5, cant right click, plese help!
Francesco,
Are you running on a Tablet PC or have you installed the Tablet PC SDK on that computer? -- Andrew -- This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. "Francesco" wrote in message ... Hi all, i have a little problem with messenger 5, for the last few days i have been nable to right click during a conversation chat, which is a shame as i do copy and pastes very often.I even uninstalled it and then reinstalled it but its still the same. Thing is that the XPmessenger 4.7... works fine. Anyone has any suggestions, apart from using the XP's one. Many thanks |
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MSN Messenger 5, cant right click, plese help!
No Andrew, just a standard desktop PC.
Its all been working fine until a few days ago.Now for some weird reason i cant right click, but that is only for messenger though. Cheers "Andrew Boardman [MS]" wrote in message ... Francesco, Are you running on a Tablet PC or have you installed the Tablet PC SDK on that computer? -- Andrew -- This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. "Francesco" wrote in message ... Hi all, i have a little problem with messenger 5, for the last few days i have been nable to right click during a conversation chat, which is a shame as i do copy and pastes very often.I even uninstalled it and then reinstalled it but its still the same. Thing is that the XPmessenger 4.7... works fine. Anyone has any suggestions, apart from using the XP's one. Many thanks |
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MSN Messenger 5, cant right click, plese help!
MS needs to insure that in the future users do not need to have both
Messengers on their system and that they have to switch between them because of differences in functionality. Maybe one will eventually become a superset of the other in functionality and size and only be required if some of the additional functionality is needed. "Erik" wrote in message ... There are two versions because they were split. When Windows XP came out, the idea was that MSN Messenger would be the IM client for non-XP users. Windows Messenger would be the "MSN" IM client for XP users. At some point during the MSN 5.0 Beta, MSN 5.0 was an "upgrade" to Windows Messenger 4.7, it even upgraded over Windows Messenger 4.7 so you only had one version. Towards the end of the beta, someone high up at Microsoft decided that the MSN Development team would develop MSN Messenger 5.x and all future versions. This same person, assigned the Windows Development team the job of developing all future versions of Windows Messenger. At this time, it was also decided that Windows Messenger would lose some of it's features, these included Tabs and the ability to "make a phone call". It was also decided that, since they are two separate programs, that the MSN versions should be available to be used on the XP platform, and this was done. Future versions of Windows Messenger will now run on Windows 2000, but it won't run on any other previous versions of Windows. I have heard that in the future, the decision to split the two into separate versions will become clear. We'll just have to be patient and wait to see it all come together. Who knows, one day, there may be only one version again, but, I won't hold my breath on that one. -- Erik Running: Windows XP Professional SP1 "No Spam" wrote in message ... Ok ! Then why are there 2 versions anyway ? M$ is pulling us a leg aren't they ? "Erik" wrote in message ... MSN Messenger 5.0 was also made for Windows XP. So, there is no reason why he cannot use the program. There are a lot of us that are using it, simply because it supports UPnP File transfer. The issue with no context menu to paste text into a conversation is a known issue, the part that is currently unknown is why it is happening. It has nothing to do with the fact that he is running it on Windows XP. -- Erik Running: Windows XP Professional SP1 "No Spam" wrote in message ... Why did you install MSN-Messenger ? The latest Windows Xp version is 4.7 something ! If your operating system = Windows XP, than you should stick to WINDOWS-Messenger. I am sorry for you if you have been unfaithful ................. "Francesco" wrote in message ... Hi all, i have a little problem with messenger 5, for the last few days i have been nable to right click during a conversation chat, which is a shame as i do copy and pastes very often.I even uninstalled it and then reinstalled it but its still the same. Thing is that the XPmessenger 4.7... works fine. Anyone has any suggestions, apart from using the XP's one. Many thanks |
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