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Windows Live Messenger 14 Crashes

Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 2:10 pm
by theultimat
Hello GT.
This issue started a few days ago. I would sign in to WLM, and it would load contacts, and then after about 1 second it would just crash out, with no error message or anything. I looked up on the support site, and did a complete clean install, which fixed the problem...for a day. Next day when I log on, it crashes out once again. I have no idea what is causing this - I had made no updates to it and Automatic Updates on my computer is turned off.
Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in advance. :)

Re: Windows Live Messenger 14 Crashes

Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 7:24 pm
by jedikiller32
Maybe you should use a different IM client?

I really like Trillian- connects to everything I have that is social and it looks sweet too. Give it a shot! http://www.trillian.im

Re: Windows Live Messenger 14 Crashes

Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 8:58 pm
by Lozza
I had this problem to, just uninstall all of your contacts and the client and then reinstall the new version by itself, then it will work... hopefully.

Re: Windows Live Messenger 14 Crashes

Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 12:27 pm
by theultimat
jedikiller32 wrote:Maybe you should use a different IM client?

I really like Trillian- connects to everything I have that is social and it looks sweet too. Give it a shot! http://www.trillian.im
Thanks! I'll give it a go. :)
Lozza wrote:I had this problem to, just uninstall all of your contacts and the client and then reinstall the new version by itself, then it will work... hopefully.
No, that only worked for a day like a said in the first post. The Windows tutorial on doing a clean install removes everything - including the Registry related things. But thanks for the input. :)

EDIT:
Trillian works great, thanks jedikiller32! :D