MSN Messenger freezing

[Kanpai]

Title says it all basically, in the middle of conversations the program will just stop responding for a minute or two, and will then resume back to it's original state. It doesn't show as non responsive in task manager.

On Win7 x64 Pro

Any ideas?

 

[clade]

I wont get into too much detail incase your not an "advanced" windows user but checkout Microsoft Process Monitor (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx) and review the capture log at the time of the hang.

If your not loyal to MSN Messenger why not try some of the free alternatives that have additional support for facebook,icq,yahoo etc?

 

[theheyes]

I'd update Flash player to see if that helps.

 

[clade]

I'd update Flash player to see if that helps.

havent used msn for ages but if i remember correctly it has ads aswell.....mabey a antispyware app effecting this element aswell/?

 

[Kanpai]

Thanks for the replies, I'll check microsoft process monitor and also update flash.

Will post back shortly

 

[matthab]

Update your flash player its the stupid flash adverts which cause it.

 

[Kanpai]

Updated flash and no problems so far, looks like it's worked!

Thanks for the help guys

 

[Kanpai]

Guess not, still freezing =/

 

[theheyes]

Have you tried reinstalling MSN? Process Monitor is good but it's a bit hard to use if you don't know what you're looking for. Does the whole system freeze up or just MSN windows? You could look in the event viewer as well to see if anything is showing up that coincides with the freezes.

 

[Dynix]

I get this as well, very annoying. It's only happened recently.

It's just MSN that freezes, nothing else. Contact list + any conversations you have open.

Windows 7 Ultimate (64bit) here.

 

[Chopper]

Funny, same problem here. I thought it was because I had changed my power management settings or installed a new (old) screensaver - fliqlo. I'll try updating flash too...

 

[Kanpai]

Nothing on event viewer, just MSN freezes. I've been looking around and have heard ACPI may be interfering with the program, however if I disable that in BIOS im unable to boot into OS :S

 

[craig3000]

New Windows Live essentials, including messenger and live mail. Changed a great deal!

 

[Kanpai]

New Windows Live essentials, including messenger and live mail. Changed a great deal!

Just upgraded to this, it looks even better! Hasn't frozen for a while now either, dont want to jinx it just yet though!