Older is sometimes better.

My wife uses MSN messenger a lot. Reecently when MS came out with a new version my wife clicked on the update button. Ever since every time she tried to send or respond it froze the computer.

I went through every thing I could think of including formatting the harddrive and reinstalling windows. Still no dice, just a computer that kept freezing.

I found a cool website today:

http://www.oldversion.com/

it had a previous release of MSN messenger available for download. I convinced my wife to try it.

She just contacted me via IM that it worked. Sometimes its just better to stick with the old. Not to mention the old version doesn't have those annoying banner ads.

Hope that website helps somone else too.

-Steve G.