Shoutbox

Tabbed chats mostly. Most used feature for me.

Colour, skins, scripts, chat logs, custom emotion sounds, etc.

TABS, CHAT LOGS (CONVERSATION HISTORY) AND COLOURED NICK

Scripts ( & development)
Skins
"No-Alert-When-Signing-Out-With-Open-Chats" (you get it, huh )
Formatting tags/colour codes
Tabbed chats
POP 3 checker
Personalised statuses
Window transparency (combined with the mose-over feature of "Enhancer")
Chat logs

I use it for many things:
- Encrypted chat logs,
- Transparency effects,
- Tabbed Chats (greatest feature evaR!!)
- IRC style message short cuts
- Custom status messages

and loads of other things. Messenger Plus is the best mod ever. Other IM just pales in comparison to WLM because of Plus!

I used it solely for gmail checking. Gmail notifier fails cos I have to re-login at the page itself. The checker script goes straight to inbox.

Messenger Lock!
Chat Log Encrypting

The main purpose I use it for is the tabbed chats; without that, Windows Live Messenger would cause the desktop to be so cluttered, to the point of me not being able to use Windows Live Messenger without installing it first. Another feature that I use every now and then is the 'copy email address' feature, it's probably one of the most useful, understated things in the whole piece of software.

It's not that I don't want to use the other features, it's just that now I'm pretty much away from this 'Messenger' community, I don't have any real need for using Windows Live Messenger that often, apart from having the odd informal chat with a client.

I think a main reason why I have Messenger Plus! installed on my system now is because of habit. If it wasn't there, then I'd probably feel a little bit uncomfortable, as though something is missing. I've been here for over five years and been using the software for slightly longer, so you should be able to get a slight idea of what I'm talking about.

Chatlogs, Coloured Nicks, Messenger Lock And Tabbed Chats.