New Live Messenger - pretty cool!

bennyB · 10 Jan 2009 at 18:04

i got fed up having to patch messenger so i've converted to pidgin now, which opens the inbox in firefox by default

Craig321 · 10 Jan 2009 at 18:11

Is there any way to put user display pictures on the right like they always used to be?

theheyes · 10 Jan 2009 at 18:28

Well, I downloaded it earlier today and since then it's just annoyed me. I think I've turned off most of the new features and re-configured whats left to look like the old one.

But meh, I'll get used to it. Not the greatest upgrade I've ever done.

madman045 · 10 Jan 2009 at 18:36

Been running the beta for sometime and I don't like this new one, on my laptop I struggle to fit the msn window on screen, where as the existing one fits perfectly.

sorn21 · 10 Jan 2009 at 18:40

I like it. Installed that patch, takes 2 secs and realy makes the difference!
shame about the systray tho

Pho · 10 Jan 2009 at 18:40

MarcLister said:
Very kind of you sir. Looks like I can get most of what I want removed.

And now for my next present, here's the off-line installer:
http://download.microsoft.com/downl...12-BC35-EC1F888AC156/en/Messenger-ship-en.cab

(The installer downloads a Catalog.xml file which is extracted from here containing the download URLs which it then uses to get the full set-up release)

MarcLister · 10 Jan 2009 at 19:01

Thanks Pho. Will play with that later.

"andy" · 10 Jan 2009 at 19:38

am i missing something here ? my hotmails always opened in firefox when ive clicked the hotmail icon :S

pingwing · 10 Jan 2009 at 19:41

it looks a bit like amsn or emsene but with good vista based themes!

And this firefox thing is finally a good addition!

Yeah small things to get excited about but for once msn is doing well (im still a little hurt after the day they made me "upgrade" from 7.5 with my uber nudge thing back in the day)

Craig321 · 10 Jan 2009 at 19:54

"andy" said:
am i missing something here ? my hotmails always opened in firefox when ive clicked the hotmail icon :S

Maybe you've had Msg Plus installed.

lmfy2k · 10 Jan 2009 at 21:09

Proc said:
Made a thread earlier but had no replies yet, just wondering if anyone has had problems getting it working on Vista Ultimate x64? I can't even sign in using the new version, just get an app crash and the program stops responding.

just to confirm, working fine on my Ulty 64bit aswell

fail at the internets · 10 Jan 2009 at 22:07

pingwing said:
it looks a bit like amsn or emsene but with good vista based themes!

And this firefox thing is finally a good addition!

Yeah small things to get excited about but for once msn is doing well (im still a little hurt after the day they made me "upgrade" from 7.5 with my uber nudge thing back in the day)

Still rocking 7.5 myself

Phil2008 · 10 Jan 2009 at 22:41

Anyway to send pics by pasting or dragging and dropping, without it doing the sharing thing??

NickM · 11 Jan 2009 at 02:14

Phil2008 said:
Anyway to send pics by pasting or dragging and dropping, without it doing the sharing thing??

Mine still seems to work with drag and drop, it did take about 30sec to a minute for the pics to appear for the person to click accept tho..

rctneil · 11 Jan 2009 at 11:47

Is it possible to view contacts by their email address?

If so could someone post a pic of their contact list in email address form to confirm?

Thanks

Neil

Slinky1989 · 11 Jan 2009 at 11:57

rctneil said:
Is it possible to view contacts by their email address?

If so could someone post a pic of their contact list in email address form to confirm?

Thanks

Neil

lol cheeky?

Anyway, I like this new msn. Found it very handy the email now opens in firefox. Mainly just like the new look.

bledd · 11 Jan 2009 at 13:08

i'm not bashing or trolling..

but since i've moved to pidgin, i've never looked back, no need to run an extra program to remove the stupid ads, and it loads up instantly instead of the sluggish way that WLM does

NickM · 11 Jan 2009 at 13:17

I get the error message 'We are unable to run audio and video setup' when I try to run AV setup, anyone know how to fix?

MarcLister · 11 Jan 2009 at 13:23

bledd. said:
i'm not bashing or trolling..

but since i've moved to pidgin, i've never looked back, no need to run an extra program to remove the stupid ads, and it loads up instantly instead of the sluggish way that WLM does

I would move to Pidgin but I've found there are a few things it doesn't do quite as well as WLM.

sja360 · 11 Jan 2009 at 14:08

i think the new messenger is a hog at resources i've seen it use upto 60MB of memory.... also it instantly starts up another process called wlc or something. I prefer the old msn. :'(