Haha okay it's all right :) Im not really familliar with this forum as i mainly read it when i receive the codeproject newsletter and so i almost never reply :)

Well if it's a virus could you give us any information about it, it's name perhaps? This would help me as the computer seemed cleaned. I tried Norton and AVG both updated on the computer and they found nothing. Ive also watched the process myself using process explorer and didn't found anything too. So i guess if it's a virus its a little too advanced for me. Any information you could give would be more than usefull :)

A friend of mine have a similar problem since a few day, im not sure if its the same problem but her messenger window wont show up when we start it but it's still in the process list. Already tried to reinstall and no result. One weird thing thought is that if we take her computer and connect it at my home instead it works perfectly.She said she didnt touch any of her router settings too and her computer seems clean from any virus or such. I know that Microsoft has been doing some change to messenger recently, some other friend that were using an old version of messenger were forced to upgrade. Perhaps theres a bug in their update or something im not sure. It could also be an automatic firmware update or something on her hardware that just created that problem too. Anyway one thing we found out is that if we disconnect her network and then try to run messenger the window show up normally but then if we reconnect her network and press the button to connect to messenger it just freeze. You might want to try that too to see if it's a similar problem. Anyway i wish you the best luck with your problem, hope this could help you.

Well my windows XP doesn't crash either and ive used it for a while already... My point is quite simple... Why upgrading something that already works? Especially if it just use more memory and add more restriction to the user. I might be wrong but ive a feeling that Vista is only good for Marketing.