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Originally posted by tony
http://www.msgstuff.com/downloads/file/.../
Sure, link to an even buggier version of 8.5!!! It surely will increase the amount of posts on the forum of people complaining their contacts are dissapearing, or unable to add more contacts, and who knows what other problems.
If you want to link to 8.5 and cause people to have even more problems, at least link to the latest version instead of to a beta version.
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Originally posted by yoinkster
Chat windows need to be massive to accommodate the unnecessary 34870878756308476380% increase in display picture sizes,
There is not much different in version 2009 for the chat windows than what you are used to, other than that the DPs are now shown on the left side.
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Originally posted by yoinkster
the chat windows seem to be coloured as other people want them to be, ie, girls have them pink, I'm a man, I don't want pink fucking windows.
Then turn it off
In a chat window: Tools > Use default scene.
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Originally posted by yoinkster
Thanks a lot for that, certainly made me laugh:
bugs and security? Problematic for MS to improve it? Boo-hoo, had they not made this montrosity in the first place people wouldn't NEED to avoid it!
Errr... excuse me? Problematic? Sorry, but this "montrosity" as you call it is EXACTLY the fix for those bugs and security issues in the version you are using right now. There is nothing problematc about it. You make it problematic for insisting in using a buggy and insecure version.
Tricking Messenger so you can use the older version WILL cause you even MORE troubles in the long rong. Even more, it will also cause problems for OTHER people.
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Originally posted by EriktheRed
Just to save creating a new thread since the one linked to in this topic has been locked... I have followed the instructions in that topic, and have gotten WLM to work in version 8 through ResHacker, but Plus! refuses to work no matter what I do. I'm on XP, my friends who have successfully gotten this to work are on Vista.
Is there anything I need to do differently than said in the topic?
Yes,
UPGRADE to Windows Live Messenger 2009.
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Sorry people, but you are bringing all these problems on to yourself!
Do NOT trick/hack Messenger; it WILL bring you more trouble.
Simply bite the bullet and upgrade. You will very quickly enjoy the new version.
Windows Live Messenger is NOT that bad. There are no features removed (except for a very very few which weren't used in previous versions that much anyways), and all the "bloat" you're talking about can also be turned off.
Also, I suggest to read this following pages. They explain _why_ the update is mandatory (because of a severe/critical security bug):
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/973882.mspx
http://messengersays.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!5B4...30829E!82557.entry
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