Messenger Plus! Live is an add-on for Windows Live Messenger that adds tons of features and extras to the software. Extend the possibilities of Messenger and make your experience a lot more entertaining!
Messenger Plus! Live is the one essential add-on for Windows Live Messenger, period. Messenger Plus! is guaranteed to improve your Messenger experience by leaps and bounds. You won’t just get a couple of new options, what you’ll get is a whole new dimension for the Windows Live Messenger software.
Yet, simple and easy to use (and customize)! Thought out end-to-end to improve and enhance your instant messaging experience without getting in your way, Messenger Plus! adds lots of capabilities to Windows Live Messenger. The new features can be accessed easily from the various Plus! menus and buttons you’ll find added to all the main Messenger windows.
Features
Log Search: Messenger Plus! now lets you search straight from the Log Viewer, indexing all your conversations automatically.
An All-New Interface: Although the first thing you’ll notice is the whole new look of the Messenger Plus! windows, more importantly each of them has had its layout revised, with hundreds of adjustments designed to make you find things more easily!
Messenger Skinning: Completely change the look of your Messenger windows with easy-to-install skins.
Improvements everywhere: You’ll notice lots of small but important new features: recent contact events appear in conversation windows, Contact List Clean-Up now lets you view a list of the contacts that have you in their list, random sounds can now be added from the Sound Library window, enhanced Quick Icons functionality, and much more…!
Tabbed Chat: Use a tabbed web browser? why not use the same thing for your conversations? All your chat windows can now be grouped into a better single one. Different positions, different options, this feature is yours to customize.
Colors, Formatting and Commands: Messenger Plus! gives you the possibility to choose any color you want for your messages’ text and background. Special formatting such as bold, italic, underlined and stroke-out can also be added. In addition, almost every aspect of Messenger can be controled via text shortcuts called commands, much like the ones used in traditional IRC chat rooms.
Custom Sounds: The Custom Emotion Sounds feature allows users to send their own pre-recorded sounds during a conversation. Sounds are played instantly on both ends and are transferred automatically and transparently when needed.
Millions of sounds are already available in every category imaginable, all you need is a couple of sound packs to start your private collection. New emotion sounds can also easily be created from existing sound files (such as MP3s) or recorded live from a microphone or another audio source.
Available languages
The current version is distributed with the following languages:
English, Spanish, French, Arabic, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Swedish, Thai, Turkish.
What's New
· Tested and compatible with the latest Messenger update: 14.0.8089.726.
· All the code related to the 2009 Contest has been removed from this version. Thanks again for playing!
· Improved network hooking mechanism. For some people, this will improve how Messenger Plus! catches various network events (used for notifications, the event viewer, ...). For other people, this will solve a rare problem where Messenger crashes upon sign-in (Messenger Plus! will try to detect the faulty behaviour caused by buggy network software and will switch to an alternate hooking method automatically when Messenger is restarted).
· Messenger tends to slow down when improper compatibility settings are set for msnmsgr.exe. The setup of Messenger Plus! now resets the compatibility settings set for Messenger in Windows Vista and above.
· Added a new preference setting in the "Customize!" panel to let you opt-out of any current and future promotion organised with Messenger Plus! (like contests or various promotional notifications).
· Fixed: Messenger Plus! is not compatible with BitDefender Total Security 2010. This will probably fix some other similar incompatibilities as well. Note that as a result, keyboard shortcuts in Messenger Plus! windows (like pressing Tab to move to the next control) may stop working and the Messenger systray icon may not be replaced by Messenger Lock.
· Fixed: the "Enhance copy/paste" feature in chat windows inserts an Arabic B character instead of an asterisk at the beginning of new messages.
· Fixed: sign-in notifications in Messenger Plus! (Event Viewer, scripts, ...) aren't working as they should in Windows XP with Messenger 8.5 since September due to a protocol change.
· Scripts. Fixed: MsgPlus::DownloadFile() does not accept user names and passwords with a @ character.
