Shoutbox

Hi all.

I recently formatted my computer and reinstalled MSN Messenger 7.5 and the latest version of Messenger Plus.  Since my reinstall, MSN Messenger has been freezing (apparently) randomly.  For example, I will be in the middle of typing and the program will freeze for approximately 5-10 seconds and then start working fine again.  This isn't just limited to one incident, it will happen multiple times.

I have narrowed the cause of the problem down to Messenger Plus.  Regardless of which version I have installed on my computer, the freezes always happen when Messenger Plus is installed.  I have tried installing versions 3.54, 3.60 and 3.61, all of which cause MSN Messenger to crash.

I have uninstalled any program which was not installed before I formatted yet I still have problems.  I have the following programs installed:

-  Microsoft Office 2003
-  Autoroute 2003
-  Nero 6.3
-  Tag&Rename
-  Windows Media Player 10
-  Azureus
-  Firefox
-  Limewire
-  NZB-O-Matic
-  Thunderbird
-  WS_FTP LE
-  iPod Updater
-  AVG free
-  Microsoft AntiSpyware
-  QuickTime
-  Adobe Reader 7.0
-  Any Password
-  TweakUI
-  WinRar

Hopefully someone can shed some light on this issue which has been giving me grief for almost a week now!  I can't manage without my Messenger Plus!

Thanks very much in advance

I don't know what the following programs do. Could you explain them a little? (i say that in case i think those programs could create a conflic with plus)

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Originally posted by StuL

-  Autoroute 2003
-  Tag&Rename
-  Limewire
-  NZB-O-Matic
-  Any Password

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About your problem: go to plus > preferences > misc and tell us what is the hook method you're usgin (default, default-forced, alternative)

Also, do you use any plugin for plus? and any addon/plugin for messeger (apart from plus)?

That could be happening cos avg runs test in the background this Happens to me all the time when avgs running, it's very consumin of power try disbling that?

Are you using ALOT of dynamic display pictures/flash based content?

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Originally posted by Choli
-  Tag&Rename
-  Limewire

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Tag&Rename: MP3 ID3 tag editor.

Limewire: P2P Client.

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Originally posted by Choli
I don't know what the following programs do. Could you explain them a little? (i say that in case i think those programs could create a conflic with plus)

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Originally posted by StuL

-  Autoroute 2003
-  Tag&Rename
-  Limewire
-  NZB-O-Matic
-  Any Password

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About your problem: go to plus > preferences > misc and tell us what is the hook method you're usgin (default, default-forced, alternative)

Also, do you use any plugin for plus? and any addon/plugin for messeger (apart from plus)?

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Autoroute is a map program which can be used, amongst other things, to offer directions from A to B.

Tag&Rename is indeed an ID3 tag editor

Limewire is a P2P program

NZB-O-Matic is for decoding files from newsgroups

Any Password is a program which can store usernames and passwords for all the websites and forums I frequent!

The hook mode is set to Default

Nope, I don't use any plugins for MSN Messenger.

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Originally posted by mwe99
Are you using ALOT of dynamic display pictures/flash based content?

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Nope!  (I hate the things!)

Thanks to everyone for their help so far.  Hopefully we can get to the bottom of this!

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Originally posted by mwe99
Are you using ALOT of dynamic display pictures/flash based content?

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when someone has one it frezzes my msn for that lengh of time

Do you have smiley centeral, i am aware that is a known incompatible program with messenger plus!

Hello all!

I believe I have resolved the problem!  I have Messenger Plus installed on my laptop and I altered some settings on there which I then imported to my computer after I had formatted.  The setting which was causing the crashes/freezes was the location to which my conversations were being saved to.  I've changed this to the correct location now and all appears to be working fine!

Thank you for all your input and help

Stu

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Originally posted by StuL
The setting which was causing the crashes/freezes was the location to which my conversations were being saved to.  I've changed this to the correct location now and all appears to be working fine!

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what was the location that cused the problem and what is your current location? Was the first location a location of a shared folder? (a remote folder in a lan, for example)

The location which it was trying to save to was \\Stuart\Stu's Documents (Stuart being the name of the PC which I formatted).  When I formatted, I changed the name of the computer to Stuarts.  I would imagine that if I had kept the name as Stuart, there wouldn't have been a problem.

Hope that clears things up a little.