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Old 12-09-2007, 06:28 PM
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Messenger Plus Live 4.50 Released!
Today Patchou released the Messenger Plus Live 4.50 update to its 22 million users. What he described as a minor update developed into a 6 month project of allowing skinning of Windows Live Messenger!

Yes, you heard correctly. You can now import, flick through and change skins from within Messenger!

The biggest features in this update are:
  • Skinning
    This feature allows skins to be directly applied to messenger without having to over-write any files or do the difficult file crossing/copy-n-pasting that you had to do in the good 'ol days. Because it is done in memory it means you can install as many as you want at once while being able to switch in-between. The best part is that you can easily make your own :)
  • Windows Live Messenger 9
    The new version is completely compatible with the new Windows Live Messenger 9 Beta that we reported on earlier.
  • Feature Improvements
    Both the built in script editor and the chat log viewer have been massively updated
  • Plenty of other things...
    All of which can be found here.

To go along with the new version of the program, a new version of the website has been launched which you can find here:

Messenger Plus! Live - The Windows Live Messenger Extension


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Thanks for the update, Stig. I installed Messenger Plus! Live 4.50 over my older version without any problems. Note: don't install the sponsor program, it's a form of adware. I haven't tried the skins yet, but will report back later.

Update on the Skin thing: not many are featured yet, but I liked the Grey Tucan (Toucan?) and Nightfall skins. One minor niggle: after choosing the skin, WLM has to be closed and restarted. Furthermore, although Nightfall is supposed to have a choice of four colors (blue, red, green and black) I could only get black to display. So, still a lot of work to be done.

In the end, I just went back to WLM's default standard Messenger look.
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