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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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The only version you should try using is Windows Live Messenger 2009, no other versions are intended to work for you.  Make sure you have ALL other versions of Messenger uninstalled cleanly and all traces of files gone, then go to the Windows Live Messenger website and download Windows Live Essentials and then if the problem still exists we can troubleshoot better.

Do you have any add-ons for Messenger installed?