Bink has reported about Sharing Assistant, a new tool designed for troubleshooting the Shared Folders in Windows Live Messenger.
Sharing Assistant does three main things; the first being a diagnostics on the system, logs and registry which saves its results to the desktop. The log file provides enough information on system and software configuration to get an insight into what may cause Shared Folders to work improperly. Secondly, it has a log packager which puts messenger log files into a folder on the desktop. Lastly, it has a cleaner which deletes sharing, contacts and cache data.
MSNMX is a PHP5 MSN Protocol Framework; however, it is currently leaning more towards a bot-type application. As the near-future comes you will see features being removed and stored separately from the Framework itself, this will give you the ability to make it do as you wish - MSN Web-based Client, Bot, Party-Line, HTTP Webcam Streamer!? It’s all possible 
In Finland, MSN Messenger achieved its millionth user in January 2006. In 12 months, the number of Messenger users has increased by 84% in Finland.
According to Microsoft Finland’s sales manager, the users of the Messenger service are now older than previously. Users are mostly in the age group 25 to 34, but there are also older users. MSN Messenger’s competitors include Yahoo Messenger and Google Talk, but Microsoft expects Messenger to maintain its market leader position.
Yesterday, a public newsgroup for Windows Live Messenger was launched, microsoft.public.windows.live.messenger. I can’t find any Web-based access to it, so try clicking this link to view it with your default news reader (usually Outlook Express).
Update: Jonathan Kay has shown me the Web-based viewer, I was looking for it in the wrong way!
I didn’t post about this here, but the Messenger team were looking for people who got error 80048883 during sign in with the latest build of MSN Messenger 7.5. They quickly got their people and have come up with a solution.
Leah has posted the following to her Messenger blog:
If you are using MSN Messenger 7.5, please follow the steps below:
- Go to http://clientconfig.passport.net/ppcrlconfig.bin
- Download that file
- Rename it to ppcrlconfig.dll
- Drop it in C:\Documents and Settings\[Windows USER]\Application Data\Microsoft\IdentityCRL\
- Attempt to sign in again.
- If you can’t get to http://clientconfig.passport.net/ppcrlconfig.bin, then email txtest_johnweis@msn.com
There are also some steps for Windows Live Messenger, but they are the generic troubleshooting steps and is very long, view the post to see them.
Bink has reported about Sharing Assistant, a new tool designed for troubleshooting the Shared Folders in Windows Live Messenger.
