no your msn takes its settings from IE not the other way round.

Bugeyes is correct. I am having the exact problem. I've tried everything iwtout any result. Everything was fine until Microsoft forced me to upgradeMSN.

Can someone please tell me where to find these proxy settings that you are talking about.

i think im having the same problem as everyone else!! aparently none of the passwords/e-mail addys i try, exsist. i have tried 3 diffrent ones. and i cant get to the so called "help" sections cos all it comes up with is refresh. i was perfectly happy with the older version, until msn wrecked it all by starting the new version. it should of been optional if we wanted to up grade it or not. i would like to thank msn for annoying people with their stupid new ways *sorry for bad spelling*

classic case

remove new and reinstall old version

Remove MSN messenger==Uninstall Messenger

You have to edit sysoc.inf (located in /WINDOWS/inf). Under [Components] you should see the following line:
msmsgs=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,hide,7. Take the word 'hide' out of the line, and it should look like this:
msmsgs=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,,7. Exit and save.

Go to Add or Remove Programs, and click on Add/Remove Windows Components. There you should now be able to uncheck the MSN Messenger Service, and by clicking Next it will uninstall.=======




Old version === http://oldversion.com/program.php?n=msnm

how do you mean by that? has it happened on previous versions? do you know how to sort it out.......please!! :-|

sorry ignore what i just put!

Very cool caperjack - never heard of oldversion.com before - it seems useful!

yeah ,a great site I found it a couple of yrs back and its still up,so it should be around for awhile .