Same problem here. Running Win98SE & avast! Home with just the Standard Shield & IM providers. Terminating the IM provider gets FreeCell working. Pausing it doesn’t help.

I guess to me not having the IM provider running isn’t that bad since I just started using Miranda IM. Trillian’s a great program but I’m not missing anything. All I want to do is be able to chat & not have to run multiple programs.

It is however a problem for those that do want to run the IM provider.