Rant:
It's an absolute ****ing joke. I left it years ago because it was bloaty, crap, full of features that I didn't need or want (not even A Patch could help). So I found Trillian which runs so much better and is almost instantaneous, though Pigdin's a pretty good use as well.
However I remember that with other chat clients you can't actually add contacts unless you use msn. So having not used it in ages, and uninstalled it when I first loaded up Win 7 I go to find it.
Remembering that it used to disallow people connecting on older versions I try to hunt an offline installer for the latest one. I'm already annoyed thinking that it's a giant package of things now rather than just a chat client, but hey...
I can't find an offline installer, so use the 1.3MB web one. 20 minutes later my hard drive is still going mental, my computer's slowed down to a crawl and I have to reboot (!?!?) even though I only selected to install messenger.
I reboot and it fires up, and I immediately notice it's slower by a long way than Trillian. But not only that but my entire system feels boggy, that's probably psychological though lol...
I then need another reboot. Now everything feels fine but there's still clearly more running than need be. It's heavy in task manager as well.
So I add my contact, and then turn it off and return to Trillian. Very ****ing annoying.
/rant.
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