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PhilipModerator
Dear All:
After several continuous days of swearing and frustration, I’ve finally found the answer to my display picture woes. It is NOT Messenger, but Zone Alarm firewall (which I have installed) specifically version 6.5.xxx. I discovered this in the Zone Labs forums http://forum.zonelabs.org/zonelabs Look for the IMSecure & IMSecure Pro discussions. It seems that a lot of people have been plagued by this display pic problem and so far Zone Labs hasn’t offered any solutions!
The only way I could get my display pictures back was to shut down Zone Alarm entirely and then restart Messenger. Another trick I discovered was to ensure that ZA doesn’t load during Windows startup. Do this by going to ZA’s Overview > Preferences tab. Uncheck Load Zone Alarm at startup. After rebooting, make sure you are signed in to Messenger first, THEN start ZA.
As PrinceG so aptly put it, the road to success is always under construction.
Have a good day,
PhilipP/S Tea, thanks for the help and reply.
PhilipModeratorHi Tea:
I uninstalled my existing Flash players and installed fresh ones from Adobe’s web site. However, the problem is still there. I can’t see anyone’s display pictures, all I get is the standard blue messenger icon. Everything else is working great, but this display pic problem is really annoying me. 😡
On another note, the final version of WLM (8.0.0787) has a lousy Contact signs in sound IMHO. The Beta version had a nice, crisp ding. If you’d like to keep the beta version sound, save the online.wma sound clip to another area in your hard drive first, before installing version 8.0.0787. Then copy it to the MSN Messenger folder in Program Files and overwrite the existing one.
Cheers,
PhilipPhilipModeratorPrinceG:
Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it out, but still have the same problem. No display pics for my contacts.
Philip
PhilipModerator
Hi guys and girls:
I updated to WLM v8.0.0689 beta a few weeks ago, and everything was smooth sailing. Then for the past few days, I noticed that I couldn’t see my contacts’ display pictures. It was just the blue Messenger icon. IMed my contacts and they could see my display picture.I did put a check next to Show display pictures from others in Options > General, but to no avail. Tried the usual repair and uninstall, but no dice. I suspect that a file related to the display pics has been corrupted in my C: drive. 🙁 I’ve tried searching the net but no one seems to know of a solution.
Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions? Thanks in advance.
Philip
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