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Messenger client?

damnyanks · 2005-06-08 22:35:05

Howdy, Anyone know light versions of messenger I can use? Currently stuck on a P600, 128 ram 6 year old machine. When I load up messenger I'm forced to upgrade to 7.0 which keeps crashing. I've stuck both Gaim and Trillian on the PC. Gaim crashes, trillian won't load my messenger list up but says I'm connected. The web…

08-06-2005 10:35pm

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damnyanks

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Howdy,

Anyone know light versions of messenger I can use? Currently stuck on a P600, 128 ram 6 year old machine. When I load up messenger I'm forced to upgrade to 7.0 which keeps crashing.

I've stuck both Gaim and Trillian on the PC. Gaim crashes, trillian won't load my messenger list up but says I'm connected. The web version is a serious pain in the ass.

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#2 11-06-2005 12:23pm

Splinter

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http://www.miranda-im.org/
wont get one that takes less memory than that. no grapics really. and its freeware

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#3 12-06-2005 11:52am

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http://www.e-messenger.net/

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#4 12-06-2005 12:01pm

harney

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You could also try AMSN. It was developed for Linux but there is a windows version - freeware as well, I think.

http://amsn.sourceforge.net/index.php

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#5 12-06-2005 10:02pm

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Probally something else thats messing up and causing the crashes than msn messenger. Have used MSN7 on so many pieces of **** pc's with out any bother. Its used daily on a 300mhz celeron with 64mb ram.

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