MsnMessenger sucks
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I've just worked out that whenever my PC dies, MSN Messenger dies first. It takes up 100% of processor, and I have to kill it. THEN explorer takes up 50% and is unresponsive until I kill it, and then ( sometimes ) other apps such as IE, Firefox and Thunderbird do the same. Explorer sometimes comes good if I restart it, but usually does not. Sadly, MSN Messenger is vital to how I do my work, so I can't just not run it. I may trying to run the old Windows Messenger, it still works with the same network, right ?
Christian Graus - C++ MVP
Christian Graus wrote:
I may trying to run the old Windows Messenger, it still works with the same network, right ?
I think I tried that once and it wouldn't even start up. It would tell me, you "must" install the upgrade. Maybe I was doing something wrong, but I just gave up and now use GTalk. Marc
People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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I've just worked out that whenever my PC dies, MSN Messenger dies first. It takes up 100% of processor, and I have to kill it. THEN explorer takes up 50% and is unresponsive until I kill it, and then ( sometimes ) other apps such as IE, Firefox and Thunderbird do the same. Explorer sometimes comes good if I restart it, but usually does not. Sadly, MSN Messenger is vital to how I do my work, so I can't just not run it. I may trying to run the old Windows Messenger, it still works with the same network, right ?
Christian Graus - C++ MVP
I've had similar experiences with MSN Messenger, but I am now using Windows Live Messenger[^]. It's been about 6 months. It hasn't "crashed" since.
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I've just worked out that whenever my PC dies, MSN Messenger dies first. It takes up 100% of processor, and I have to kill it. THEN explorer takes up 50% and is unresponsive until I kill it, and then ( sometimes ) other apps such as IE, Firefox and Thunderbird do the same. Explorer sometimes comes good if I restart it, but usually does not. Sadly, MSN Messenger is vital to how I do my work, so I can't just not run it. I may trying to run the old Windows Messenger, it still works with the same network, right ?
Christian Graus - C++ MVP
Christian Graus wrote:
MsnMessenger sucks
And you are finding that out now, i stopped using it some time ago :) actually all most messengers suck, yahoo dies on me half the time and for the other half it keeps signing me out for no apparent reason (apart from the fact that it might not like my friends list).
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I've just worked out that whenever my PC dies, MSN Messenger dies first. It takes up 100% of processor, and I have to kill it. THEN explorer takes up 50% and is unresponsive until I kill it, and then ( sometimes ) other apps such as IE, Firefox and Thunderbird do the same. Explorer sometimes comes good if I restart it, but usually does not. Sadly, MSN Messenger is vital to how I do my work, so I can't just not run it. I may trying to run the old Windows Messenger, it still works with the same network, right ?
Christian Graus - C++ MVP
I had exactly the same symptoms, on my HT box it sucked completely one of the two execution paths, until I rebooted the machine. Sad to say, solved by a clean format. Since then it happened one time only, and I'm still hoping it will not start again... At the time, I had the feeling it was caused by the Plus extensions, but removing them had no effect. Don't know if Live messenger fixes it since I'm fine with the old 7.5 release.
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I've had similar experiences with MSN Messenger, but I am now using Windows Live Messenger[^]. It's been about 6 months. It hasn't "crashed" since.
Silence is the voice of complicity. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. -- monty python Might I suggest that the universe was always the size of the cosmos. It is just that at one point the cosmos was the size of a marble. -- Colin Angus Mackay
Same here, i also switch to windows live messenger. Theming gets lost :doh: every now and then but it works and is much more stable.
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I've just worked out that whenever my PC dies, MSN Messenger dies first. It takes up 100% of processor, and I have to kill it. THEN explorer takes up 50% and is unresponsive until I kill it, and then ( sometimes ) other apps such as IE, Firefox and Thunderbird do the same. Explorer sometimes comes good if I restart it, but usually does not. Sadly, MSN Messenger is vital to how I do my work, so I can't just not run it. I may trying to run the old Windows Messenger, it still works with the same network, right ?
Christian Graus - C++ MVP
Is it MSN or Windows Live Messenger that's crashing like that?
Christian Graus wrote:
I may trying to run the old Windows Messenger, it still works with the same network, right ?
Windows Messenger works fine the way things are. I sometimes sign into one account in WLM and another in Windows Messenger at the same time.
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I've just worked out that whenever my PC dies, MSN Messenger dies first. It takes up 100% of processor, and I have to kill it. THEN explorer takes up 50% and is unresponsive until I kill it, and then ( sometimes ) other apps such as IE, Firefox and Thunderbird do the same. Explorer sometimes comes good if I restart it, but usually does not. Sadly, MSN Messenger is vital to how I do my work, so I can't just not run it. I may trying to run the old Windows Messenger, it still works with the same network, right ?
Christian Graus - C++ MVP
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I've just worked out that whenever my PC dies, MSN Messenger dies first. It takes up 100% of processor, and I have to kill it. THEN explorer takes up 50% and is unresponsive until I kill it, and then ( sometimes ) other apps such as IE, Firefox and Thunderbird do the same. Explorer sometimes comes good if I restart it, but usually does not. Sadly, MSN Messenger is vital to how I do my work, so I can't just not run it. I may trying to run the old Windows Messenger, it still works with the same network, right ?
Christian Graus - C++ MVP
Trillian?[^] I have that running all the time (connected to ICQ, that our office uses) and have never had any stability issues
-- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Buzzwords!
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Trillian?[^] I have that running all the time (connected to ICQ, that our office uses) and have never had any stability issues
-- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Buzzwords!
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3ded. It works perfectly and has less clutter than the official client (No Ads for example :-D)
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Yeah, that's what I meant. I was running live messenger ( got the latest version yesterday ). Today, I've reverted to plain Windows Messenger.
Christian Graus - C++ MVP
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Christian Graus wrote:
I may trying to run the old Windows Messenger, it still works with the same network, right ?
I think I tried that once and it wouldn't even start up. It would tell me, you "must" install the upgrade. Maybe I was doing something wrong, but I just gave up and now use GTalk. Marc
People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh SmithI tried that, I had no luck getting all my contacts to use GTalk as well.
Christian Graus - C++ MVP
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Is it MSN or Windows Live Messenger that's crashing like that?
Christian Graus wrote:
I may trying to run the old Windows Messenger, it still works with the same network, right ?
Windows Messenger works fine the way things are. I sometimes sign into one account in WLM and another in Windows Messenger at the same time.
Live Messenger.
Christian Graus - C++ MVP
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I tried that, I had no luck getting all my contacts to use GTalk as well.
Christian Graus - C++ MVP
Christian Graus wrote:
I had no luck getting all my contacts to use GTalk as well.
I know what you mean. I decided the people that really wanted to keep in touch with me would install GTalk. Rather cutthroat of me, but then again, I don't use Msg or GTalk for clients. Marc
People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh Smith -
Christian Graus wrote:
I had no luck getting all my contacts to use GTalk as well.
I know what you mean. I decided the people that really wanted to keep in touch with me would install GTalk. Rather cutthroat of me, but then again, I don't use Msg or GTalk for clients. Marc
People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh SmithYeah, that's not really an option for me, sadly.
Christian Graus - C++ MVP