Shoutbox

Maybe you have alot of stuff on that thing, so i guess my conclusion is either you have a virus causing your computer to be slower or like CR said it must be a seperate program running that might take alot of space

There is no virus, my computer is not slow, it's not imcompatiable with plus, I uninstalled plugins, I uninstalled Plus, I uninstalled Messenger--I reinstalled messenger, I still get the same problem. It's a bug with Messenger. I won't really know until Microsoft gets back to me, we all know when that'll be. Could be next week before I know anything. Don't forget I'm not the only person having this problem either.

Its caued by certain Plugins! not loading correctly because of certain code. Once the contact list appears and MSN Messenger doesn't crash Plus! will fail to hook because of it. If you remove the Plugins! references in the registry or even the Plugin! folder(or rename it) then it tends to fix the issue. I had this with a Plugin I even created so.