windows live messenger 2011

[faun]

hallo chaps.

lets get right to it : new msn has been officially released as of sept 2010. i updated out of boredom, and lo and behold, its terrible. it hangs every few seconds, makes talking to people almost impossible, and hell, likes to crash when i sign in too.
ive reinstalled, hasnt worked.

also of note, when wlm(new msn acronym?) installs, it sneakily installs silverlight aswell. since ive no use for silverlight, nor do i like sneaky installs, i deleted it the first time round. this time ive left it, incase wlm needs it to work?

any thoughts would be nice. thanks in advance.

 

[TrainableMan]

My thought ... thanks for the warning, I won't install it.

 

[Fire cat]

For some reason, MSN wasn't ever a good software, performance - wise.

I thunk that I will install just to see what it does.

Thanks for the warning though.

 

[davehc]

I cannot comment on Messenger, (Is that the program to which your refer?) as I do not use it. But silverlight, through Windows lIve Beta, offered free storage space.
But I will admit I was confused by your references, so could be up the wrong path!!

When you say "wlm(new msn acronym?) " Do you mean Outlook? Could be wrong, but I don't think Live Mail and messenger are similar operators?

I think that, possibly, it no longer installs automatically on your hard disk. I cannot verify it, as I do, in any case, have the full silverlight on mine.

P.S. OK. I uninstalled Silverlight. Reinstalled Windows live, using only Mail and Messenger. Yes. It does still install Silverlight.


Fwiw. I ran a few passes on Messenger. It seemed to be trouble free, but my tries were very brief. Agasin, Windows Live mail, or messenger, do not need Silverlight to run correctly.

 

[faun]

i deleted silverlight last night once i looked up on it and saw no reference to windows live messenger.

as to the wlm mail=/=messenger, i meant messenger. msn isnt what its called anymore, what with being slammed into the windows live essential package.

ive found no fix other than rebooting, and im not 100% but there may be a link to the windows media player and messenger making a nice little hang package - not with wmp, just on wlmsn side, will look into it a little bit more.