Typing appears very slowly in Win Messenger 5.1

[Guest]

Hello!

I am using Windows Messenger 5.1.0701 and Win XP Service Pack 2 on a new
laptop. When I type my messages in Messenger, the text appears very slowly,
two letters at a time. If I type a long sentence, it takes a very long time
for it to appear in my message box and to be sent to the other person. All
other applications function swiftly. What could cause this?

I found out someone had this same problem back in 2003 with Messenger 4.7
and it was related to a bug in DirectX 9.0. But I didn't find anyone with the
same problem with Messenger 5.1.

I'll be grateful for any help.

Esa

 

[Galen]

In Quintaden <[email protected]> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

Hello!

I am using Windows Messenger 5.1.0701 and Win XP Service Pack 2 on a
new laptop. When I type my messages in Messenger, the text appears
very slowly, two letters at a time. If I type a long sentence, it
takes a very long time for it to appear in my message box and to be
sent to the other person. All other applications function swiftly.
What could cause this?

I found out someone had this same problem back in 2003 with Messenger
4.7 and it was related to a bug in DirectX 9.0. But I didn't find
anyone with the same problem with Messenger 5.1.

I'll be grateful for any help.

Esa

Ctrl + Alt + Del
Bring up the task manager
Click on Processes
What's eating all of your resources while you're doing this?

Pesky Startup Apps:
http://kgiii.info/windows/all/general/startupapps.html

Malware Cleaners and Repair:
http://www.kgiii.info/windows/all/general/malwarefix.html

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http://dts-l.org/
http://kgiii.info/

"We approached the case, you remember, with an absolutely blank mind,
which is always an advantage. We had formed no theories. We were simply
there to observe and to draw inferences from our observations." -
Sherlock Holmes

 

[Guest]

Ctrl + Alt + Del
Bring up the task manager
Click on Processes
What's eating all of your resources while you're doing this?

Thanks! I wouldn't have guessed that something suddenly takes over the whole
processing time when I simply type in Win Messenger. It turned out to be my
antivirus software Avast which takes all the resources when using Win
Messenger! MSN Messenger works fine. I'll ask if they have a solution to this
strange bug in Alwil Software.

Yours,
Esa

 

[Galen]

In Quintaden <[email protected]> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

Thanks! I wouldn't have guessed that something suddenly takes over
the whole processing time when I simply type in Win Messenger. It
turned out to be my antivirus software Avast which takes all the
resources when using Win Messenger! MSN Messenger works fine. I'll
ask if they have a solution to this strange bug in Alwil Software.

Yours,
Esa

Actually, crack open MSN Messenger, click on tools, options, etc...
Somewhere there's an option to use your anti-virus software with MSN. I'm
using the Windows Live Messenger beta so I don't really know where it is and
prior to that I mostly played around with Windows Messenger so I'm probably
not a whole lot of help. That might be the problem though and, truthfully,
you're STILL as protected as you'd always be as Avast is a real/full-time
scanner and will scan before anything is opened.

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/
http://kgiii.info/

"We approached the case, you remember, with an absolutely blank mind,
which is always an advantage. We had formed no theories. We were simply
there to observe and to draw inferences from our observations." -
Sherlock Holmes