Shoutbox

Remember back in MSN 6?

When people log in, their display pictures werent shown in the login box?

Well, it seems that MSN starts lagging a lot when someone log in for me,
and since my list is quite packed it gets annoying, that MSN freezes for 2 seconds like 3 times every minute...

So, i am curious if there is a way to disable them (only on the login box though) or if you got any other good ideas on how to make MSN use less ram.

Thanks