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Posted by JoeM on November 18, 2005, 12:01 pm
Please log in for more thread options I have tried that but did not work. I suspect that is was MSAS that caused
the problem, but not sure. I have also tried to reproduce it but it seems
to happen at random on different machines(but all machies that have had the
problem had MSAS installed)
> Scroll down for my reply....
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>>Thanks, weird problem. The only thing I can come up with is that MSAS
>>prevented it at some point. But MSAS is no longer on the computer and
>>should be causing a problem.
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>>>
>>>>Here is the situation, I have 3 username on a computer, and each
>>>>username
>>>>has administrator rights. On the first username I download and
>>>>installed
>>>>MSN Desktop Search and MSN Weather. I went into each username and set
>>>>up
>>>>MSN Desktop search and entered the zip for the weather. I had install
>>>>MSAS
>>>>on this machine to make sure there was no Spyware on the machine. After
>>>>I
>>>>did a scan on each username, I found the first username no longer shows
>>>>the
>>>>MSN Weather in the toolbar. When I go into setup in the toolbar it does
>>>>not
>>>>show MSN Weather. I checked the other two usernames and they show the
>>>>MSN
>>>>Weather and it is working fine. On the first username I tried to do a
>>>>repair of MSN Weather but that did not work. If anyone can give me any
>>>>ideas or advice I will try it.
>>>>
>>> Hi Joe, I'm not going to be real useful at the moment, but I'll see if I
>>> can
>>> come up with any suggestions and get back to you tomorrow. I haven't
>>> encountered
>>> this problem and I don't run any multiple User ID computers, but I can
>>> certainly
>>> add one or two and test it out.
>>> -steve
>
> Joe:
> Sorry that I'm still not going to be much help. I set up additional User
> IDs and
> was unsuccessful at duplicating your issue. It works on each ID. On the ID
> that
> no longer has the weather add-in, perhaps you can install it again to get
> the
> functionality beack. I can't imagine why it was disabled, but I have seen
> reports of add-ins disappearing for no apparent reason.
> -steve
>
> --
> Stephen Boots
> MVP MSN.COM
> sboots@mvps.org
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