I recently had to create a new user account on my computer and deleted my old one.  On my other user account when i used messenger I had an option come up one time that allowed  me to have my contacts that i am talkign to display on the top of the window i am chatting in instead of on my toolbar at the bottom of my screen.  I am wondering how I can find this add on again because I am unable to find it anywhere. Thank you for any help you may be able to give.

Go to Plus! / Preferences / Instant Messages / Tabbed Chats / Check "Automatically group all of my chats"

Plus -> Preferences -> Instant Messages -> Tabbed Chats

Enable it .

In other words:

spideygirl, the option what you talk about is something added by an extra addon for MSN Messenger, called Messenger Plus!*. It isn't a basic standard option of MSN Messenger itself.

Messenger Plus! allows conversations to be grouped together.

So, first you need to download and install Messenger Plus! and then activate the "Tabbed Chats" option in Messenger Plus! (see posts above).


* There are also other addons for MSN Messenger which have the option to group conversations. They work in a different way and show the grouped conversations in a different way than Messenger Plus! does. But most are either out-of-date, still in beta, or don't work properly at all. For a list of those see: "CookieRevised's reply to A window for all plugin?".