Shoutbox

Hello boys and girls, today I am proud to bring you guys a collaborative effort into bringing back skinning to Windows Live Messenger 9. This is the first time I have made a DLL skin in a long time so it feels weird doing this.

Anyway through an exhaustive effort between the most brilliant minds in the Messenger world we have found a way to bring back the mods that you all know and love.

Firstly I would like to give a shout out to the people who have made this whole project a possibility. Ipab, TB, Matt Holwood and of course TheSteve who figured out the workaround.

So what does this skin do? Well we call in Windows Live Messenger - Sopair Edition.

Sopair restores the display pictures in the chat window back on the right hand side where they belong! and on top of that it adds a smaller third display picture so that you can hide the larger two and still see your contacts picture.

And for those wondering, yes this skin removes adveritsements. It is a dll skin and so we are proving that our methods still aren't dead.

But in saying this we must stress that this is not a permanent fix, the method we are using will most likely be removed in the final version of 9 so don't start counting on victory just yet.

Anyway for the full download head on over to http://www.designevolved.net

Skinning is far from dead. Just remember that.



digg it!

http://digg.com/microsoft/Windows_Live_Messenger_9_Sopair_Edition

** Legal Info **

This breaks Microsofts EULA, you use the file at your own risk and we shall not be held responsible for any damages that may occur as a result of using this patch. DO NOT CONTACT MICROSOFT FOR SUPPORT ON THIS.

The authors of the patch are in no way shape or form affiliated with Microsoft.

. Eloquent. Something I cannot manage at 3:40 AM

Even if the method you are talking about is removed in the official release, you and the other guys proved that there is always a solution. I am sure Patchou will be able to find a new one if the method is removed. Skinning will not die!

I should also point out that the removal method is not like that of apatch. This actually removes the whole element and does not leave the banner behind.

So, how did you do it?

Magic

Hey Willz,

Is it possible for you to move the webcam icons below the display picture?

I find the padding for the webcam stuff really space-consuming...

You guys are great

Update: Willz... an advice... I think you should say everywhere that this is an installation tool with an unistalling feature not only a dll file to replace...

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So, how did you do it?

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Indeed. Sharing this information will only make the Messenger community stronger, tell us .

Just curious, does this change anything to the UI or does it simply simply remove/add things?