I just reformated because of this problem. Well not just this problem. This problem is one of them. My MS Messenger doesn't open. I click the icon and it does nothing. It shows up in my Taskmanager for about a minute. I installed a Fresh copy of XP last night and selected MS Messenger not to load up during windows start up. So far I have installed SP1, Oupost (which it did pop up asking me to allow Messenger to have access to the internet.) Office 11 Beta1, DirectX 9.0 and Norton AV 2002. A