Thursday, September 07, 2006

Internet Explorer 7 and MSN Messenger/Windows Live Messenger

When Windows Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 shipped chat logs in MSN Messenger/Windows Live Messenger stopped opening when Internet Explorer 7 is installed on the system; users receive:

The XML page cannot be displayed
Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later.

This is due to a bug in Internet Explorer 7 trying to render XML files when the fully-qualified path to the XSLT contains spaces. So, as a work-around:

Move your chat logs (Tools>Options>Messages>'Message History'>Change) to a folder path which does not contain spaces, e.g.:

%systemdrive%\chatlogs
Note that Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 is, of course, still Beta material - this is what Betas are for, to find and fix bugs!

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

Links to this post:

Create a Link

<< Home