Just realised my msn messenger is the older version since i bought a new laptop i havn't upgraded it!
How do i get the latest version?
Cheers Spadge...

 

http://messenger.msn.com/

Go there

 

Cheers mate sorted
Except i still have the old 4.7 installed as well How do i get rid of that??

 

I've upgraded to 6.2 is that the one your upgrading too?

 

Yes mate i now have 6.2 again but i still have 4.7 as well

 

I've still got the old one installed & it hasnt caused me any problems & i've been running 6.2 for a while now

 

Ok but i like to bin off the old stuff if poss!
I'll have a play with it tommorow when i'm less knackered

 

In that case just go to settings, control panel, add or remove & then uninstall the programme

 

Tried that already and its not there Just the 6.2!

 

Are you sure it hasnt uninstalled it automatically when you upgraded to 6.2? Im gonna check mine now too to see if it's still there lol.

 

The icon for it is still there in the bottom right corner along with the new one so i guess it must still be in there somewhere

 

Spadge, your right mate, my olden isnt there either It must have uninstalled it automatically when i upgraded then

 

means u can go on 2msn's at the same time

 

Jules think what u got that is 4.7 is actually windows messenger not msn messenger, the messenger i think u talking about starts everytime u open outlook express .
It lives in program files folder (c:\program files\messenger)with the name messenger NOT msn messenger which is a couple folders down, what i did with mine was just rename the msmsgs.exe file to something different so it dont auto run no more but will inform me if an update available on msn update, u could just delete the whole folder but recon everytime u check for updates it will say u need it, u can set it not to tell u about that anymore tho in update settings.(dont know anybody actually use windows messenger anyway anymore cause it not as good as msn messenger, dont do half the things, and dont ubderstand why microsoft run it along side msn, which is still after all microsoft init )

Could be totally wrong about what your problem is but think that is what u after chap

Steve

 

This can happen when you upgrade Messenger sometimes.
As you said, you can't uninstall the old version using Add/Remove programs because it's not in the list
I use a script to remove the old Messenger, you just run it, reboot and the old version is gone
I can send you it if you like?

cheers, Alan

 

i still had both when i upgraded aswell, after rebooting it went.