Windows Live Messenger crashes

Merlin5 · 25 Apr 2010 at 20:21

Every now and then my messenger chat window goes white, with the spinning circle, and it says 'windows live messenger not responding'. So I have to close down messenger and reopen it. I think its only for messenger and not other stuff on my pc, but not positive. Is there a fix for it, is it a common issue? I'm not in compatibility mode, do I need to be? Mine is Messenger build 14.8089.726

Deleted member 77746 · 25 Apr 2010 at 20:23

I don't use msn much now myself because I think it is too bloated. I use something called Pidgin Messanger.

I am sorry I can't help much on the MSN issue. If you have re-installed it then there is something else causing the crash and without looking at logs then there is no real help available.

Randomface74 · 25 Apr 2010 at 20:26

Live Messenger has been crashing on my home and my work machines most days for about a month.

asim18 · 25 Apr 2010 at 20:33

It's definitely not Microsoft's fault. I've been using Windows/MSN/Live messenger for over 8 years and it's only crashed a couple of times.

Have you tried reinstalling it?
Have you got any addons running, A-patch or messenger-plus?

Merlin5 · 25 Apr 2010 at 20:49

asim18 said:
It's definitely not Microsoft's fault. I've been using Windows/MSN/Live messenger for over 8 years and it's only crashed a couple of times.

Have you tried reinstalling it?
Have you got any addons running, A-patch or messenger-plus?

Just basic windows live messenger, plus I added some of my own custom smilies.
Yeah it's never crashed for me before either. Thing is, I can't find an exe to reinstall it? There's nothing about windows live messenger in control panel/programs and features. Only the msnmsgr.exe in the windows live folder which opens MSN.

Just now though, I did a repair with wlarp.exe:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Live\Installer\wlarp.exe

That went through all the main live programs, including messenger, so maybe that will have helped, I'll have to see.

Randomface74 · 25 Apr 2010 at 21:27

I was running a-patch. But obvo I've thought of this and am now running clean installs on both machines - still crashes.