Why can't I have an Audio conversation using MSN Messenger?

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hi, i am getting no sound when somebody send me a nudge or a message,everthing else works fine,but the only way that someone can get my attention on msn is to play a audible msg.this is so anoying as when watching television i cant hear someone who wants to speak to me unless they know about sending me an audible sound thank you

i have sound in yahoo....when i use msn it will not work....it says that iam muted,when i hold the mic button down.the mute button then comes back...i can un mute it...but when i click the talk button..the mute reapears.the i can hear the other person...and my mic is fine.i have dome the wizard.it say i have sound but its not pickin up the mic.....
thanks...bill

Un able to have a two way conversation with people. My friends in Berlin germany can see and hear me. I can see them but am unable to hear them. Douglas Vincent

Have similar problem as other users. My contact can hear and see me but I can only see my contact with live messenger.. No problem with skype or yahoo but the computer freezes when using skype or yhoo.

Everything works great... until my friend uses the video chat. then my mike stops working.
Neither one of us has a firewall or router.
HELP!!!
Julie

Hey Leo I really hope you can help me out here. I have tried everything. My MSN works fine no problems. However when I try to have an Audio Conversation the problem starts. The person I am talking to can't hear my voice. Instead they here the music I am playing on my computer or the sounds my computer is playing (Which I can hear too). I can hear the other person though.I have tested my microphone using the computers software and the MSN audio wizard and it doesn't work. It detects the microphone and I have tested the microphone on another computer and it works fine. Can you please help me. Thanks alot

msn says cannot run audio and video set up..up untill a few days ago it was fine..i can send my cam to others on other sites ..just not msn..please help

I had the "We are unable to run Audio and Video setup" popup too, but I managed to fix it :) It was just that I was running Messenger in Windows 2000 compatibility mode. Disabling the compatibility mode so it ran natively under XP made it work :)
I hope this works for you all too.

to pat....i done wat you said but it still shows me that msg sayin "We are unable to run Audio and Video setup" ......any tips to help?

hi, while talking on msn, i can hear my friend for most of what he says, but occasionally at the end of a longer sentence there is a big gap before his voice comes back, it's as if he is only able to speak in monosylables or else msn has trouble sending voice between our computers. Could it be his sound card? or would it be that i am using a router with a nat firewall? do you know if msn have released any fixes for this problem? if so where are they available?

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