Windows Live Messenger causes 100% or 50% CPU utilization or crashes
As I regulary view my current website stats provided by Webstat website traffic analyzer, I found out there’s a whole bunch of people landing at my blog, while searching the web for Windows Live Messenger related problems – especially that bug causing Windows Live Messenger to run at 100% (resp. 50% on a multi threaded system) CPU utilization and sometimes crashing due to that behaviour. Since I have had that problem on my own PC for somewhat three weeks or so, I started digging for a solution to that issue.
As my german-speaking blog-readers already know, I found a solution that works for me. I have found out that disabling that “shared documents feature” on my Live Messenger 2008 Version (Build 8.5.1302.1018) turned out to do the trick! From a customer network, that uses the version prior WLM 2008, I know that this problem occours with other versions too. As I write these lines, I gotta say, that I have not tested disabling shared documents in my customers’ installation (about 15 Windows XP PCs) – I therefore cant say if, it will help out in case you are using a version prior 8.5.1302.1018 – but feel free to try out and please send me your testing results as a quick note. Getting feedback on that stuff really pushes things forward.