ok posts about freezing MSN have been mention but none of them is the same as my problem.

My messenger live keeps freezing, now it doesnt have a specific time. i mean sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't. however i noticed that it deffinately freezes when someone IM's me as soon as i sign on. At first i thought its coz of Messenger Plus but then after removing it. no freezing for a while then BACK!!!!.
PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME.
at the moment am back messenger 7.5 with Plus but i really like the plus live features better.
Thanks

By the way i tried un installing and re-installing many times still keeps freezing.
Qarout

can you explain a bit better. Like what actually happens. would anything trigger it?

sorry i edited my original post to say what really triggers it.
anyways what happens is that, messenger just stops responding. the windows become white. i cant exit i cant do anything unless i shut it from the task manager. actually to sum it up it just stops responding.

1) Answer either or :

    Do you have sweetim or smiley central installed at the moment?

    Did you have ever sweetim or smiley central installed?

2) Did you have the latest version of Both Windows Live Messenger (for 8.0 users latest is: 8.0.0812.00 and for 8.1 BETA users it is: 8.1.0168.00_ClientV8.1) and Messenger Plus! Live (version 4.11.251)?

3) Do you have something Like Windows Live One Care installed?

4) Did you have any scripts installed?

5) Does it also happen with both versions of Windows Live Messenger (8.0 and 8.1)?

ok

1) concidering i dont know what those are i am guessing i have never installed them.

2)well i never use beta. so i had the 8.0( it should be the latest everytime i uninstalled i re-download the stepup file and reinstall

3)no i never had One care installed

4) dont know what u mean by scripts. but no i dont recall installing any scripts

5) as i told u i never used 8.1 beta.

hey vaccination for some reason i got an email saying u replied again but i cant see it here on the forum.
anyways i guess i read most of the reply from the email
and no my laptop is actually new well kind of
its an HP nx8820, 1.8GHz centrino, 512MB RAM, 2MB cach memory

OK firstly don't worry about others, just worry about yourself. Now down to work

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ok

1) concidering i dont know what those are i am guessing i have never installed them.

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4) dont know what u mean by scripts. but no i dont recall installing any scripts

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5) as i told u i never used 8.1 beta.

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ok in that case, no i never installed scripts. and no one else touches my laptop other than me. so in that case if i didnt install a smily central the no one has.
and lastly yeah, even without messenger plus! installed, it does the same thing.

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Be best to try and if it does the same thing you should then report it to Microsoft.

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yes...this then allows that problem to hopefully get fixed up

by the way i read somewhere that uninstalling alone might not remove problems...
that i have to delete registry, i think????
how can i remove everythign that has got to do with messenger whether its live or 7.5

we may only do that IF it still happens with the 8.1 BETA. So your best bet is trying it then, we look at other avenues

well man i am going to do that...but as i told you. the not responding problem doesnt happen all the time. so i need to check it out for a couple of days. by the way shall i install PLUS! or see how it goes without it.
but THANKS ALOOOT man

do it without...it's so we can be 100% sure it's not plus! causing it.

any news ?
I have the same problem on my laptop, the messenger is freezing and sometimes after a minute it return to work and sometimes not.
on my desktop everything is ok, and both have the same messenger version and the same messenger plus version.

SOLVED!!!


alrighty, I was having the same problem and I found a solution...

I'm using msn live with msgr plus and stuff NG plugin...

I had also recently installed IE 7...

Every few minutes of using msn messenger it would freeze and the window would go white..

then I did I little testing and alot of research to find out that it's actually IE that's causing the problem...

basically, microsoft have set IE to constantly check a couple websites and these websites are on the crappiest server in the world apparently cause if you try to access them you end up waiting forever and usual end up crashing your browser...

and since msn messenger is built on IE technology it uses IE constantly!

so with that being said... all you have to do to FIX THE PROBLEM is change a couple options in the registry..

goto run and type regedit then hit enter

then naviagate to this key..

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main

there are 4 things to change...

Default_Page_URL
Default_Search_URL
Search Page
Start Page


these will all be set to some msn.com or microsoft site... simply change them to "about:Blank" (without the quote marks) and then reboot. And tada problem solved

good luck I hope this helps!

I have that exact same problem with my MSN. It suddenly started happening last week. Cool thanks jambon it works!

Thank you so much jambon! You fixed my MSN!

I have this same problem on my msn, every single time i log on it freezes after 2-3 seconds and ends up not responding. Ive uninstalled and reinstalled this 5 times +, ive repaired it, ive tried many different versions on msn incl 7, 8 and the new 2011 version is not compatible with my laptop. I am running windows XP, windows live messenger was working perfectly until yesterday. I tried Jamboms theory just before in Regedit, restarted computer and tried again but still no luck. Any other ideas?
I have done virus, malware, spyware and trojan scans with no results. this is so confusing!

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Originally posted by tenkss
I have this same problem on my msn, every single time i log on it freezes after 2-3 seconds and ends up not responding. Ive uninstalled and reinstalled this 5 times +, ive repaired it, ive tried many different versions on msn incl 7, 8 and the new 2011 version is not compatible with my laptop. I am running windows XP, windows live messenger was working perfectly until yesterday. I tried Jamboms theory just before in Regedit, restarted computer and tried again but still no luck. Any other ideas?
I have done virus, malware, spyware and trojan scans with no results. this is so confusing!

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