Hey . 1month ago i was using msn 7.5 and i was so happy because it's fast and contain all features that i need ! But this days when i wanna log to my account they force me to update to the 8.0 version , if i choose no for the update i can't login to my account . the 8.0 run slow for me and block activities of my laptop when openning and use the sharing feature that i dont like at all ! ( Sorry for my bad english cauz im from france )
First step: stop using windows buy a mac, install OS X, problem solved. switching to a Mac saved me a LOT of headaches from Wind0ze.
i know what you mean, i switched away from yahoo messenger and went to yahoo - yahoo allows you to use your msn contacts so you do not loose any of your friends and they can still be in msn while you are not
I hate the crap when you log in with it. it loads that Ad at the bottom from msn adcenter and pop-ups your Emails in box with some news.. Cause lag!!
Just use a webmessenger like http://webmessenger.msn.com @Dollar, you know you can disable the news in the settings...
HAHA! so true... ah but to help the original poster, maybe perhaps you've heard of Pidgin? http://www.pidgin.im/ formerly Gaim, good luck.
no to mac! but i think if your lagging because of msn starting up you might need to upgrade some ram or buy a new computer.
Yeah, if your computer cannot run MSN... then you need to do something about it. Hardly a demanding program.
Thats a good post, i do that to when i dont want to be laged, seems all mesenger clients make my pc slow yahoo more then others, i still use msn oftena nd i disable the news thing and everyyhing i an on it.. i cant get by with out msn, but on days when im running my irc server and alot of bots ect.. i just use web messenger so i wont overload and freeze up