Messenger causes crash after Windows Update

After last weeks Windows update (Dec 12, 2006), Windows Live Messenger causes
my Dell Inspirion 5100 to crash with a Blue Screen of Death. The only way I
can run Messenger is to restore the computer to it's state before the update
and disable automatic updates. I'm running Windows XP Pro, SP2. Anyone else
have this problem?

"JD" wrote:

> After last weeks Windows update (Dec 12, 2006), Windows Live Messenger causes
> my Dell Inspirion 5100 to crash with a Blue Screen of Death. The only way I
> can run Messenger is to restore the computer to it's state before the update
> and disable automatic updates. I'm running Windows XP Pro, SP2. Anyone else
> have this problem?

Yes! I thought I had another software prob, my custom system (running
same-XP Pro, SP2)crashes, restarts and logs a serious error, but seems to run
fine afterwards and also if I don't start live messenger (I don't run
messenger on start-up).

"Mr.B" wrote:

>
>
> "JD" wrote:
>
> > After last weeks Windows update (Dec 12, 2006), Windows Live Messenger causes
> > my Dell Inspirion 5100 to crash with a Blue Screen of Death. The only way I
> > can run Messenger is to restore the computer to it's state before the update
> > and disable automatic updates. I'm running Windows XP Pro, SP2. Anyone else
> > have this problem?
>
> Yes! I thought I had another software prob, my custom system (running
> same-XP Pro, SP2)crashes, restarts and logs a serious error, but seems to run
> fine afterwards and also if I don't start live messenger (I don't run
> messenger on start-up).

I eventually uninstalled Windows Live Messenger 8 and re-installed MSN
Messenger. I haven't had problems using MSN Messenger, so I'll stick with
that.