I have the latest build of Windows Live Messenger installed on both my desktop (running Vista) and my ASUS eeePC 900HA (XP). Both crash whenever I try to use the Win-E key combination. At my wit’s end, I Googled for hours on end trying to find a fix.
I ran across a forum thread at Adobe that talks about Vista and Flash being the root cause of the crashes. Hmmm, interesting.
I have been testing a couple of Twitter apps that were built using Adobe’s AIR. (AIR is a cross-platform software runtime that lets developers build rich Internet apps.) Reading the thread got me thinking that maybe it wasn’t Flash et al, but AIR alone. I broke out my eeePC, uninstalled AIR and any AIR apps I had installed… no more Windows Live Messenger crash. I will have to test this out on my Vista desktop when I get home, and post my findings.
Update: April 8, 2009 @ 10:05 AM: Well, no joy on the Vista box. Even after removing AIR and rebooting WLM is still crashing on Vista. Damn Flash dependancy! Back to Googling.
