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njeske

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Gaim is nice and is what I am using right now. For some reason though, the latest betas keep crashing on me when I try to start it. I get an ntdll.dll file is faulting or something weird.

mine's been doing the same thing, only mine is crashing on liboscar.dll. if i remove that dll (just to troubleshoot) it crashes on libmsn.dll instead. not sure what's going on. even uninstalling and reinstalling doesn't help. tried both 2.0beta5 and the latest SVN versions. it works fine on my laptop, but only crashes on my desktop.

so, in the meantime, i'm using miranda. but i prefer GAIM.

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Lucky you. I moved to Germany over a year ago, and here nobody has a passport account. They're all ICQers, and ICQ sucks. ICQ SUCKS. DIE ICQ, DIEEEE! :angry:

Ha ha, actually I started on ICQ in 1999, before MSN Messenger was out. At the time, ICQ was the coolest thing around because you could watch each other type in real time. I eventually moved to MSN because it was so much more sophisticated and clean than ICQ...

...But hey we all start somewhere!

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Ha ha, actually I started on ICQ in 1999, before MSN Messenger was out. At the time, ICQ was the coolest thing around because you could watch each other type in real time. I eventually moved to MSN because it was so much more sophisticated and clean than ICQ...

...But hey we all start somewhere!

sophisticated?? u must be kidding.

msn its lame, i have to use it since everyone moved to use that crap, it took 8 version to have offline msg and 7 to have history what a joke.

Sorry ICQ got everything first than msn i and i dont think a single feature that msn didint copy from their competition.

Lucky you. I moved to Germany over a year ago, and here nobody has a passport account. They're all ICQers, and ICQ sucks. ICQ SUCKS. DIE ICQ, DIEEEE! :angry:

i hope that msn die really i hate msn so much, its a resource hog, and still no file transfer resume what a joke , u must be luck to meet people that use ICQ its the best IM.

What it took msn 8 version google talk took less than one to implement it, also msn service its crap it always get downtime and mantainence i dont see this in ICQ.

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SMELTN

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Miranda (MSN, Gtalk, IRC)

If ur a new user try to find a pack that suits your needs to avoid the pain of building your messenger...well i like it but most ppl don?t!!

Where can someone find a premade pack like you speak of? I would be interested in trying Miranda if I could use one of those "premade" packs at first

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How is it a resource hog? I've never seen it use more than 10 mb of memory on ANY computer.

Well, resource hog may be too harsh but it does use a lot more resources than GAIM or Miranda. Trillian has to load all of those plugins, skin, etc which may make it not as responsive at times.

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motoSpeakYanks

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I've been using trillian since 2.0, currently using version 3.1 and looking foward to astra

3.1 is getting old to me, and im wanting somthing new to mess around with

(and my trillian uses about 20-25k of ram...which im not too worried about, got enough to spare)

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Meyithi

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Windows Messenger, Not MSN Messenger or Live Messenger!

Quick, uses 4 meg ram max, integrated into Outlook/IE, small footprint, not bloated, no ads, free, don't even have to install it if you use XP SP2.

Used to use GAIM but 99% of my contacts are on MSN, don't use any advanced features like text logging etc so Windows Messenger can't be beat for my needs.

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Windows Messenger, Not MSN Messenger or Live Messenger!

Quick, uses 4 meg ram max, integrated into Outlook/IE, small footprint, not bloated, no ads, free, don't even have to install it if you use XP SP2.

Used to use GAIM but 99% of my contacts are on MSN, don't use any advanced features like text logging etc so Windows Messenger can't be beat for my needs.

I'd use Windows messenger all the time if it weren't for the fact that 5.1 disables links in the convo window. Any way to fix that?

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Meyithi

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I'd use Windows messenger all the time if it weren't for the fact that 5.1 disables links in the convo window. Any way to fix that?

No idea mate, I'm happy with 4.7.3001, all went downhill from there with the new "idiot proofing security features". I'll be taking it to Vista with me as well, which leads to a question, anyone using 4.7.3001 on Vista?

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sophisticated?? u must be kidding.

msn its lame, i have to use it since everyone moved to use that crap, it took 8 version to have offline msg and 7 to have history what a joke.

Sorry ICQ got everything first than msn i and i dont think a single feature that msn didint copy from their competition.

i hope that msn die really i hate msn so much, its a resource hog, and still no file transfer resume what a joke , u must be luck to meet people that use ICQ its the best IM.

What it took msn 8 version google talk took less than one to implement it, also msn service its crap it always get downtime and mantainence i dont see this in ICQ.

The ICQ protocol is technically superior, but the client is bollocks crappy, and that's what killed it. Slow performance, huge memory footprint, lack of skinning with a default ugly non-native look. 98a was the best ICQ client back then, every version after that simply added bloat. It didn't help that ICQ insisted on using difficult-to-remember strings of digits for its usernames, instead of email addresses/actual usernames as like every other competiting protocol. ICQ's multi-party chat was also remarkably inferior to MSN back when I still used it - inviting others took forever and people would just drop from the chat for no rhyme or reason.

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