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O.P. where does messenger plus check to see messenger live is installed?
Okay I'm exploring Linux more, but one thing I really miss from windows is messenger plus live. It had some tools that were indispensable and the scripts are awesome.  I know about things like amsn, and kapoti, but I prefer msn and messenger plus has me spoiled.:P

I've managed to get windows messenger live to run on wine. Well sorta. It'll get to the part where you put in your login. It's alot farther then I thought I'd get!

I can't log in cause the text inputs for password and username don't work.  Now here's the rub. The installer for live says messenger says it won't install cause it's not "xp". I'm working on figuring out a way around that.  Basically I ended up just coping  the whole windows live folder to wine. After using dependency walker to track down some extra dlls (plus installed the visual c++ runtime) it needs this works.

Now here's the rub.

When I try to install plus it tells me messenger isn't installed. Where does it check to see if msn is installed? I'm guessing the registry? if so where?

so I can copy it from vista to wine?
01-02-2008 11:56 PM
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RE: where does messenger plus check to see messenger live is installed?
You'll need to simulate the regitry entries of WLM for Plus! to detect it properly, like HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Live\Messenger

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01-04-2008 07:35 PM
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RE: where does messenger plus check to see messenger live is installed?
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The installer for live says messenger says it won't install cause it's not "xp".

in wine options, you can specify what OS you want wine to appear as.
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01-04-2008 08:32 PM
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O.P. RE: where does messenger plus check to see messenger live is installed?
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Originally posted by Patchou
You'll need to simulate the regitry entries of WLM for Plus! to detect it properly, like HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Live\Messenger

Awesome just what I needed. :) thanks.


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The installer for live says messenger says it won't install cause it's not "xp".

in wine options, you can specify what OS you want wine to appear as.

I tried that. My guess is the installer checks things other then os version to see if it's xp or higher.
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RE: where does messenger plus check to see messenger live is installed?
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Originally posted by Patchou
You'll need to simulate the regitry entries of WLM for Plus! to detect it properly, like HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Live\Messenger

Awesome just what I needed. :) thanks.


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Originally posted by netsplit
The installer for live says messenger says it won't install cause it's not "xp".

in wine options, you can specify what OS you want wine to appear as.

I tried that. My guess is the installer checks things other then os version to see if it's xp or higher.

try installing Orca in wine, it will let you modify .msi files. Extract the msi, open it in orca, go to LaunchCondition table, and delete all the entries.

http://download-v5.streamload.com/PxUWFj_W~_0Nt~x.../forShawn/Orca.Msi
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01-06-2008 12:20 AM
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O.P. RE: where does messenger plus check to see messenger live is installed?
Awesome! muy handy.

deleted the winxp checks and when I ran it, it crashed on install.

However when I reran it, it gave me an option to repair and reapir worked without a hitch. Even better a proper install fixed some fo the display bugs! Now just trying figure out how to get it to sign in.  Been trying to figure out which windows dlls it needs. So far I've got wininet working. Now just trying to figure out how to get the advapi32 dll to work in wine, and whatever else it needs.

Thanks lots for that!

This post was edited on 01-09-2008 at 02:16 AM by netsplit.
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