Event ID - 4

Event Id4
Source(MSN/Windows) Messenger Service
DescriptionThe description for Event ID ( 4 ) in Source ( (MSN/Windows) Messenger Service ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event
Event InformationAccording to News Group Post cause and solution for this problem as follows.
1) A number of people have indicated that by uninstalling the NAT patch for the PC2Phone features, helps solve this problem. To try, click Start, then Control Panel, then Add or Remove Programs. Scroll down and locate Windows XP Hotfix (SP1) [See Q316397 for more
information], click it, then choose Change/Remove and uninstall."
2) In several newsgroups many people have lost connection to messenger in
windows XP. Here is the solution i found after having lost my messenger XP:
Run gpedit.msc from start menu. In this group-policies program you can set the missing parameters for messenger XP. It worked fine for me after a virus-cleaning."
Reference Links How to Prevent Windows Messenger from Running on a Windows XP-Based Computer

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