Shoutbox

Hello, ist there a way to remove the windows bar from the windows live messenger 2009? I mean the bar where you can mimize, maximize, close the window. In the old messenger it was possible

Grettings

You mean the Aero border?

No, the only way to remove this is to either turn off aero, or apply a shaped skin.....however if you're on the new RC then you can't apply a skin

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Originally posted by djdannyp
No, the only way to remove this is to either turn off aero, or apply a shaped skin.....however if you're on the new RC then you can't apply a skin

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Wrong *tells mynetx to post to explain*

Thanks Sammie

@sddfg, djdannyp:

You can also use a tool called "Messenger Aero Switcher" programmed by me. It will turn Aero on or off on the fly, you don't even need to restart Messenger.

In order to use it, you should be on Windows Vista with enabled Aero, and you should have the latest Windows Live Messenger 2009 RC (14.0.8050.1202) installed.


Messenger Aero Switcher: Turn Aero on or off just for Messenger


Free download: Messenger Aero Switcher for Windows Live Messenger 2009 RC 14.0.8050.1202 (165 kB)
Please report any problems or unexpected behavior you might notice.

Great tool mynetx. This will be very useful when Messenger is officially released and skinning is implemented again.

I'm assuming this just changes AeroWindowFrameEnabled in the registry? Too lazy to download and test, looks nice though

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Live\Messenger\AeroWindowFrameEnabled if anyone cares

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Originally posted by Eljay
looks nice though

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Thanks Eljay...

You're right - but using such a tiny tool is easier than handling with dangerous registry hives and possibly destroying something, true?

That's a nice trick, wasn't aware of that one, so I stand corrected.

I much prefer the aero-less look on WLM....still waiting for compatible Plus before I move up to the RC tho....and praying that skinning is okay (but hopefully the work that the fairies are doing is coming good)

Thanks for your replies