I am running Windows Live Messenger 2012 on Windows 7 Pro on a Core i5 2.5 Ghz w/ 8 GB RAM.

Up until today, I've had no problems with WLM.  This morning when I log in, I notice that my CPU is spinning up and that WLM is not responding to any clicks or commands.  When I open Task Manager, I saw that WLM was using 33% + of my CPU and at that time was over 800MB of memory usage.  I ended the process and restarted WLM.  I noticed that for about 3 seconds, I could click within the program and it would respond.  However, very quickly it again became unresponsive.  I checked Task Manager again, and saw that again the CPU is spinning around 33% and that the memory usage is climbing at about 5MB a second.

Can anybody assist with this?