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Microsoft seems to have some problems wih Live Messenger in Vista. Version 8.1.0178 didn’t work for me. Infact, the program started and the process showed up in the Windows task bar but no login window showed up. Nothing showed up. Launching it another time created another process but still no window. Another strange thing was that the first process couldn’t be killed but the ones created afterwards could be terminated. Starting the program as administrator or in Windows XP compatibility mode didn’t do any difference either. It’s surprising to see that the latest version of Windows in incompatible with the latest version of Microsoft highly popular instant messenger.

 However, in the meantime my solution was to install version 8.0.0812 which can be downloaded here.

 This is a temporary solution but I hope it helpes someone else too.