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Also, downgrading will not bring display names back in the sense that your contacts who use WLM 2011 will still see your real name.

Well thats frustrating. No one has any clue why they removed Nicknames? There's nickname generators out there for heaven sakes.

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Originally posted by Razza
Well thats frustrating. No one has any clue why they removed Nicknames? There's nickname generators out there for heaven sakes.

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Nickname generators are made by 3rd parties. And they all were created back in the day display names where used everywhere. Time has changed...

Why they removed the display names is explained here:
CookieRevised's reply to Taking away display names is HORRIBLE.

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Originally posted by CookieRevised

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Originally posted by Razza
Well thats frustrating. No one has any clue why they removed Nicknames? There's nickname generators out there for heaven sakes.

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Nickname generators are made by 3rd parties. And they all were created back in the day display names where used everywhere. Time has changed...

Why they removed the display names is explained here:
CookieRevised's reply to Taking away display names is HORRIBLE.

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Yeah, I know its changed, I do realise it's third parties but when we all got over the stupid fonts and emoticons riddled in our names, just having a first name as our name, or some custom characters was nice.

I'm reading the link now. It's just the fact that like a lot of people, my messenger is casual yet email needs to have my full name. Even just being able to customise them separately would be nice.

D'you think that there will be a script made for the new plus that allows this?

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Originally posted by Rem0rse
D'you think that there will be a script made for the new plus that allows this?

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No, that will never happen since that is impossible.

As you can read in many threads about this subject, a script can not add this again. The display name feature is/was a feature of the online Windows Live Services and depends on the protocol of these services. Messenger is just a progam which taps in into these services and their protocols. In order to change it one needs to change the underlying policies/protocols.

So, an addon for Messenger can not change anything in that regards; the change must come from MS itself and has an impact not only in Messenger but on every online service related to Windows Live (which are quite a lot of things btw).

One can only hope MS listens to the many complaints and, not unimportant!, that the percentage of users complaining or not liking the current situation is enough (it is not because 10000 people complain that it means the other 3 billion Messenger users -or whatever the number is- agree with it).

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Done .

But I cant even downgrade, it's like v. 2009 has completely disappeared, and 2011 is everywhere. If we could hide the crap social things, and change our Nicknames without having to change our email names, I wouldn't care.

I've uninstalled and gone to Trillian.

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Don't worry. I've got an installation file for the WLM 09 on my harddrive...
Should I Share it with U?

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Originally posted by yaxxe

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Done .

But I cant even downgrade, it's like v. 2009 has completely disappeared, and 2011 is everywhere. If we could hide the crap social things, and change our Nicknames without having to change our email names, I wouldn't care.

I've uninstalled and gone to Trillian.

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Don't worry. I've got an installation file for the WLM 09 on my harddrive...
Should I Share it with U?

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Please don't... There is absolutely no reason to share such stuff. Moreover, he already got an appropiate answer to his questions/comments from Nagamasa.

As you can read in many threads and posts on this forum: People can still download WLM 2009 from the official Microsoft/Messenger site:
http://explore.live.com/windows-live-Messenger-XP

Wow WLM is really starting to turn into crap.

I'm staying on 2009 for as long as it takes, and if Microsoft does the same thing they did to 8.5, I'll show 'em the finger and get another program. M$ is being delusional. EVERYBODY knows me by my nickname, and I want it to stay that way, with pretty black to red MSN+ gradient. Fu**ers!

Don't listen to anyone who says you can't downgrade.  I just did it - use this link: http://www.forumvancouver.com/threads/windows-liv...-version-2009.531/

It worked, and my name is back to what it has been for the last 10 years.

Microsoft, you suck so bad!  You can't suck this bad without TRYING to suck!

I had to ditch my Hotmail account when it started rejecting some emails I was sending as spam.  MY f*cking emails that I wrote!  It's truly a company of retards.