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MSN
I give MSN Instant Messenger:  Crappily drawn brown circles.
I actually have very little to write about this program...its awful in simplicity. First to even download the program off of their website I had to go through no less than 4 pages of registration information, by the end I was expecting to have to submit my latest tax information for their scrutiny. When I was finally able to download it, I got a Fileplanet speed. After I installed it I got the usual Windows message that I had to restart Windows after installing it. Yes I know...it pisses me off too... So I reset and wait for the program to start up after reboot. Now, maybe its just me, but usually I don't expect a single program to almost double the amount of time it takes for my system tray to load.
So it loads(finally) and I open it up the first time with the thoughts of adding all of my friends to my contact list and starting to chat. Good luck on that. First thing that I find out is that they have absolutely no [reliable]search/whitepages in the program. If you don't have their passport email address...you're up shit creek without a boat. So I email everyone else that I know that uses MSN and get their email addresses so that I can add them to my contact list.
A week later....
For no apparent reason MSN starts crashing after 2 minutes of having it open. So I check the illegal operation details it seems that MSN is crashing because of a conflict with the OS Kernel. After I get the heimleich manouvre (for the candy I had been sucking on got sucked down my throat for laughing so hard...hehe MS can't even get its own software to work in Windows), I decide to reinstall MSN. Not only does this not work, it seems to make the problem more frequent. So I decide to uninstall and then reinstall. That seems to do the trick. Or does it?
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