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here is my idea about what would have caused the problem:

while installing never versions of msgplus or msn messenger, i never unistalled the former. even while updating from msgplus 2 to msgplus 3, i did not uninstall the old version. (i suspect this might be the problem as i accidentally saw some registry entries that probably belong to msgplus 2 yesterday)

i don't remember if i accidentally installed the sponsor program in former installations of msgplus. even so, i might have cleaned it using spybot or adaware.

with these suspections in mind, i have been searching this forum for more than 2 hours. i read tens of threads including hundreds of messages posted by many many users before. according to the suggestions to similar problems (and some suggestions to problems that are not so similar to mine ) here is what i have tried so far:

1- i uninstalled msg plus. msn messenger alone still loads very slowly.
2- i reinstalled msg plus with the sponsor program, and uninstalled it, then installed without the sponsor program, just in case there are some junk files from a possible adaware-spybot removal of sponsor program. nothing changed.
3- i uninstalled all plugins, then disabled plugin download. nothing changed.
4- i ghosted my whole hard disk to another one, tried with the same computer, another computer with a very very similar configuration (only monitor is different!). and i even used my old hard disk with a computer which is quite different than mine (an intel based one), made hardware new configurations, installed the new drivers and removed the old ones. all other programs worked perfect, msn messenger still loads veeeeery slowly.


although not with the exact hardware configuration, i installed all my major programs with msgplus (windows xp sp2, norton utilities 2003 including personal firewall antivirus ghost etc, spybot with teatimer and resident ie function turned on, adaware personal,..) to different configurations including a brand new laptop and 2 other desktop computers before. none of them had a better configuration than my computer, but they load msn messenger in -at most- 2 seconds.

i even installed msgplus to a very old computer (p3 450 with windows me installed) of my mother just in case i use it sometime. it works well.


i really love the capabilities of this program, and have been using it since v2, it really drives me mad to see my super-fast computer cannot initialise a simple instant messenger in 30 seconds!

any suggestions? ("format c:\" is not an acceptable one)