display picture dissapeared, cannot change display picture

[gtrofin]

I had a display picture on my msn messenger page, I updated to msn live
messenger (after being more or less forced to do so). At some point today my
picture dissapeared and I was not able to put it back. All what I see in
Change display picture are choices for dynamic pictures galleries and no
regular pictures that I could choose from. When I chose an image and click OK
a dialog box is informing me that is an invalid image file regardless of what
file I'm choosing, I give up after trying some 20. I cannot say whether
Microsoft is trying to forcing us into getting an account with a bloatware
gallery provider (read : the dynamic picture gallery providers) or simply
undertested, business driven Live Messenger is full of bugs...

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Greetings,

Are you using the latest version of Windows Live Messenger (8.1)? If not, grab the latest
here:
http://get.live.com/messenger/overview

This should at least re-generate your display pictures due to the new storage format.

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[gtrofin]

I'm already using 8.1. My guess is somehow the picture storage got corrupt in
a manner the Windows Live Installer cannot arrange. I've uselessly tried to
uninstall/delete all MSN related folders/reinstalll Windows Live but with the
same result. I guess I will just give up ...