Vista - Rediculously intensive adverts in MSN

Hey,

Firstly, "WTF"!

Having an advert at the bottom of messenger than consumes 50% of my CPU
usage is absolutely rediculous.

Don't you guys have limits for how intensive the flash content is in the
advert? If not I suggest you start running it in a separate thread on
lowest priority or something because I have to close MSN every time that
poxy advert for HellBoy comes on. Heaven forbid I accidently move my cursor
over it.

BTW, I have a dual core Pentium D 3.4 ghz, with 2gb of RAM running Vista, so
it's not exactly a slow computer, but suddenly becomes slow when MSN scales
down a Flash advert into the bottom of MSN messenger that was blatantly
designed for a much larger frame.

I look forward to when that is dumped for a Silverlight/WPF equivilent
because that whole flash advertisment situation is just a joke.

Nick.

Hi Nick,

I might like seeing this one myself, which locale/country do you have your Live ID set to?

I've gotten marketing materials from Microsoft's adCenter before and never seen any sort of
stipulation regarding CPU usage on ads. I believe they're only really worried about the
content.

They have support and feedback mechanisms on their site:
http://support.adcenter.msn.com/cont...key=Adcenterss
http://feedback.adcenter.msn.com/efo...ctKey=adcenter

I admit I've never had to deal with them, so I'm unsure what kind of response you'll get.

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"Nick" <a@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:eUMKgd7WJHA.556@xxxxxx

Hi Jonathan,

I have my country set to the united kingdom and I believe that the
advert in question is for HellBoy.

Previously I have had one that has played audio without me even clicking
on it, just an accidental mouse over, and when you have your speakers set
loud as you're listening to some music it's pretty annoying. It seems that
companies are trying to abuse the service (imo).

It's not appeared for the past few hours so whether it's been withdrawn
or was only a temporary advert i'm not sure. I've confirmed the same
behaviour and mass CPU usage with one other user of the messenger with the
same locale as myself.

Basically messenger becomes extremely unresponsive and even typing will
result in pauses of 5 or so seconds before you see any text appear, this
continues until the advert disappears or messenger is terminated.

I'll keep my eye out for the advert again and if I see it I shall submit
some feedback to the URLS you have just provided.

Thanks a million for your time.

Nick.

"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" <msnewsreplies@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:%23ocE1u9WJHA.1328@xxxxxx

Nick wrote:Oh yes, seen this many times. A little mouse over and the PC grinds to
a halt. It so you don't POSSIBLY miss what crap they're advertising today.
Just block the bloody things.

"Nick" wrote: