I've noticed that sometimes, with 137, the contact list goes all black when Messenger starts. I'm not the only one whos seen this (someone's just been on IRC with this problem).
I'm wondering if it's a bug/incompatibility with 137, as I haven't seen it with any other version of Messenger. What do you guys think?

Yeah, this just happened to me too and was about to post a topic about it

IMO this is related to low resources and/or not-up-to-date drivers (or bad installed ones).

Neither of which I suffer from.
Anyway, someone will eventually find a solution (go Patchou )

i have this problem too its really anoying like it goes black and then msn starts useing 100CPU usage and i have to slowling get the mouse over to the tray icon and exit then restart msn and then it usaly works

i have had this problem a few times too.  the messenger plsu recover windows comes up and asks me to restart msn and try fix MP!3.

oh but i only have 127 contacts on the account it happens on, its never happened on my other account

It's nothing to do with contact list length, as I have only 31 contacts.

So, basically, we can rule out:

• Graphics card drivers
  
• Low resources
  
• Contact list length
  
• Allow List length

• Messenger 6.2.0137 bug
  
• Incompatibility between Plus and Messenger 6.2.0137

I was the person in the IRC room yesterday which brought up this subject. Appearantly Microsoft is addressing this problem. I have had the same problem again today, but this time it's different, I couldn't send any messages to my contacts, I couldn't check my email, I know it's not Plus! causing the problem, but the error message that showed up this time is Buffer overflow.....application had to be shut down in order for me to continue.

Hopefully It gets fixed soon, because I don't want to keep using Windows messenger...it's just not the same.

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IMO, this only leaves:



Messenger 6.2.0137 bug

Incompatibility between Plus and Messenger 6.2.0137

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Originally posted by Vantage
Theres not inconmpatibility with Messenger Plus and MSN Messenger 6.2.0137 Because I have that and i dont have any incompability's so it is simply the lack of your slow computer

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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.