So, I was getting the latest critical-your-computer-will-explode-if-you-don’t-install-this update for my Windows XP Home Edition last night via Windows Update (in spite of some very good reasons why I should avoid Windows Update), and after installation and rebooting (uptime? what’s uptime?), everything is fine…except Trillian, the client I use for ICQ, AIM, and Yahoo! Messenger crashes. Badly. Like, every time I try to run it. Reboot. Still crashing. Something in the update very obviously broke something with Trillian. Fortunately, I was able to find a patch on Trillian’s site that seems to have fixed the problem – evidently, given the recentness and urgency of the patch announcement, I’m not the only one this has happened to. So, if you use Trillian 0.74 or Trillian Pro 1.0, there’s patches available for download that will keep it from crashing after the latest Windows updates.
Crappy weather around here this morning – pouring down rain, which is freezing in the trees in places. We are quite literally right on the freezing line – if you go five miles north, they have ice on the trees and power outages from branches falling on the power lines. Here at the house, no ice in the trees at all. Man, North Carolina can be weird sometimes.
Tonight takaza and I will go to dinner with friends to celebrate the fourth anniversary of our first date. I’m amazed it’s been that long, but it’s been a very good four years, that’s for sure!
It actually wasn’t Microsoft that broke it.
My trillian at work (NT4) and at home (Win2k) both went through the same thing. It’s something that AOL broke.. if you have AIM contacts, as soon as they load, BOOM. Down goes the client.
So.. um.. yes. download the patch. 🙂
Damn, it’s so hard to keep these evil empires straight. Makes sense, though. I’d just assumed that since it happened right after the update it was MS’s fault, but it looks like it was just bad timing. Whatever – it’s working now, that’s all I care about.
I looked at the other chat clients out there when I was wondering if Trillian was hosed for good, it looks like Trillian’s about the best there is. One day soon I’ll go ahead and pick up Trillian Pro. I think it’d be worth the twenty-five bucks.
AOL Trillian and Microsoft
I did download the patch immediately for my Trillian so I never had a problem there, but I did have a similar problem with Microsoft Update on January 27th that took out all of my non microsoft programming ….GRR it destroyed my recording studio !! GRR…but other than that it took me a few weeks before I was able to restore everything else. I do believe that there are two seperate problems here, and I disabled Microsoft Update so it doesn’t harass me anymore.
I don’t trust Bill Gates not to look out for his own interests and so this proves that I am not paranoid !
~ Joshua Day ~ Lord Cormac Tobin