Hello. I am using AOL Instant Messenger with DeadAIM 4.1 on Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2. Recently, due to a hard drive upgrade, I re-installed Windows. However, the re-installation of AIM seems to be failing on me, for signing on the first time would work. However, restarting AIM will render it useless, for it will freeze on the loading of my buddylist. It matters not whether DeadAIM is installed or not, for I have uninstalled and reinstalled multiple times.
One thing to note is that aim.exe takes all 100% of my CPU resources during this freeze. The freeze seems to have an infinite time span, for I have left it overnight from 11PM to 5AM and it has yet to disappear.
I don't know whether this is a software problem or a hardware problem, for the hard drive is a few days old. Since I have not done much with this installation of Windows yet, I will be willing to format the partition if it will solve my problem.
If you have any idea to contribute to this thread that may help my troubleshooting, please reply. If you know of any Windows-native AIM client (No GAIM please
) that I can use in the mean time, that would be great as well.
Thanks in advance.