Messenger crashes if used while exiting a game

[Andrew McDonald]

I have Windows XP Pro & use Windows Messenger 4.7.2009.

I've noticed these days that if I leave Messenger running while I'm playing a game, and someone
messages me, and I exit the game and start typing in the conversation window while the game is still
shutting itself down in the background (I think) then Messenger crashes. It doesn't produce an error
report dialogue so I can't report it to MS; it just gives the normal memory access error. I think
this started happening when I upgraded to build 2009.

Anyone else experience this?

Andrew

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Greetings Andrew,

I haven't seen this, can you name any games this occurs in particularly?
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Windows MVP, Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com

"Andrew McDonald" > wrote in message
...
> I have Windows XP Pro & use Windows Messenger 4.7.2009.
>
> I've noticed these days that if I leave Messenger running while I'm playing a game, and
someone
> messages me, and I exit the game and start typing in the conversation window while the game
is still
> shutting itself down in the background (I think) then Messenger crashes. It doesn't produce
an error
> report dialogue so I can't report it to MS; it just gives the normal memory access error. I
think
> this started happening when I upgraded to build 2009.
>
> Anyone else experience this?
>
> Andrew
>
>

[Andrew McDonald]

Both Unreal Tournament and UT2003, I'm not playing much else at the moment... I have a Radeon 9800
Pro with Catalyst 3.4 if that might be the problem. It just happened again a second ago and it
popped up the error report box, so I managed to send it off to MS. Perhaps it always popped that up
and I clicked Don't Send and forgot about it...

Andrew

"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" > wrote in message
...
>
> Greetings Andrew,
>
> I haven't seen this, can you name any games this occurs in particularly?
> ____________________________________________
> Jonathan Kay
> Windows MVP, Messenger
> Associate Expert
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
> Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
>
> "Andrew McDonald" > wrote in message
> ...
> > I have Windows XP Pro & use Windows Messenger 4.7.2009.
> >
> > I've noticed these days that if I leave Messenger running while I'm playing a game, and
> > someone
> > messages me, and I exit the game and start typing in the conversation window while the game
> > is still
> > shutting itself down in the background (I think) then Messenger crashes. It doesn't produce
> > an error
> > report dialogue so I can't report it to MS; it just gives the normal memory access error. I
> > think
> > this started happening when I upgraded to build 2009.
> >
> > Anyone else experience this?
> >
> > Andrew