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Messenger Plus! Live 4.90.392
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The Messenger add-on, remixed.
What`s new in Messenger Plus! Live?
Log Search
Log Search
Messenger Plus! now lets you search straight from the Log Viewer, indexing all your conversations automatically.
An All-New Interface
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
Messenger Skinning
Completely change the look of your Messenger windows with easy-to-install skins.
...and improvements everywhere!
...and 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...!
Plus your regular dose of features!
Messenger Plus! Live is the one essential add-on for Windows Live Messenger, period. Installed more than 500 million times since 2001, when it started as a simple add-on for MSN Messenger 3, 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. Here is a short list of some of the features most people enjoy in the software:
Enhance your conversations with better organisation and more fun
Tabbed Chats
Tabbed Chats
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
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
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.
Quick Texts
Quick Texts
Tired of always typing the same thing? Meet quick texts: customizable messages that can be sent with a simple shortcut or typed command. Automatic text replacement can be used for word replacement or filter.
Various additions to manage your contacts and conversations
Personalized Status
Personalized Status
Create customized away and busy statuses with special name tags, personal messages and even an auto-responder. Set a timer to reset your status after a certain amount of time and organize your presets for fast repeated access.
Contacts on Desktop
Contacts on Desktop
Similar to what ICQ used to offer, you can show the status of any desired contact on your desktop in the form of small floating windows. You can drag and drop messages or links into these to send a message to the contact, or drop a file to start a transfer.
Polygamy
Account Polygamy
Just check a box in the preferences of Messenger Plus! Live and you`ll be up and ready for signing-ing into more than one Messenger account at the same time. No need to patch any file or use other Messenger clients anymore!
Messenger Lock
Messenger Lock
Be it for security/privacy in shared computer environments or for avoiding your boss (which would be wrong... ;-), this feature lets you lock Messenger with a simple keyboard shortcut and hide it in the system tray with an inconspicuous icon. Messenger can then be password protected and messages can automatically be sent to your contacts to inform them of a lock or unlock.
HTML Chat Logging
HTML Chat Logging
Messenger Plus! Live can keep logs of all your conversations in a much more flexible way than Messenger can. Actually, Plus! let you do that for years before Microsoft added it as a standard, far from perfect, feature. How Plus! compares to that?...
* HTML Logs: beautiful styling, color, and the flexibility of files you can take anywhere.
* Emoticons and Winks: everything is logged, even custom emoticons are kept and winks shown as thumbnails.
* Log Viewer: shows you all your logs sorted by contact and date within Messenger Plus!. It also searches your archives for old messages in seconds.
* Skinnable logs: if you get tired of the default style of the logs and know about CSS, just drop a custom.css file in your logs folder to change their look!
Events
Event Viewer and Logging
Contact sign-ins, sign-outs, status changes, display name and personal messages changes... everything can be viewed instantly and archived in XML files for future look-up.
The Event Viewer can be used to find if a certain contact signed in earlier, analyze his status changing behaviour, or even his musical taste!
Contact List Clean-up
Contact List Clean-up
Easily view statistics about all your contacts (last sign-in, last time you had a conversation, are you still in their list, etc.) and clean your contact list by deleting old and repeated contacts.
Endless extensibility with the Scripting Architecture
Messenger Plus! Live provides its own scripting environment to developers who want to add their own features to Windows Live Messenger. You can get scripts or learn how to develop your own from the scripts section, hundreds of them are already available for free download.
For those of you who are a mere mortal incapable of creating a script: scripts mean new ideas, new features and more fun in Messenger, again and again, brought to you by other developers from the Messenger community. It means that installing Messenger Plus! and enjoying the features it has to offer right out of the box is only the beginning!
And it`s all free.
Messenger Plus! is freeware and you are encouraged to send it to your friends. You`ll never have to pay a dime to benefit from all the features of the program. Messenger Plus! does not contain any kind of spyware or trojan either. The embedded optional sponsor is adware and you get a clear choice to install it or not during setup, risk free! For those who want to support the development but prefer not to install the sponsor program, you are encouraged to visit the online store, or give the developer a minute of your time by sending a postcard. Whatever your choice is, we will respect it and we`ll always be happy to count you as a Messenger Plus! user.
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History updates (Complete changelogs since the listing on this site)
4.90.392 [10-22-10]
- Compatibility with Messenger 2011 Beta 1 has been removed and replaced by compatibility with the Final version (still un-supported and requires disabling safe mode).
- Skinning is now supported in Messenger 2011 with the exception of custom window shapes.
- Skinning: UIB files can all be properly decoded and re-encoded (windows definitions and styles can be skinned).
- Skinning: resources from new locations are now extracted from Messenger.
Other versions : 4.85.386 4.84.384 4.84.382 4.83.380 4.83.378 4.83.376 4.83.372
v4.85.386 [07-26-10]
- Microsoft recently released a beta version of Messenger 2010/2011 (Wave 4). Although Messenger Plus! is not compatible with the new version yet, this new release properly detects the beta and do some basic initialisation for things like the auto-update feature.
- When the new Messenger beta is detected, Messenger Plus! adds its usual "Software not loaded" menu in the contact list. From this menu, the compatibility window can be displayed to display some information and, more importantly, to let more advanced users disable "safe mode".
- When safe mode is disabled with the beta, Messenger Plus! activates some of its functionalities. Using Messenger Plus! in this mode may cause all sorts of errors to occur, no support will be given for beta versions of Messenger.
- If you experience issues after disabling safe mode, use the Maintenance wizard (available from the uninstaller) to revert Messenger Plus! to its normal state.
v4.84.384 [06-07-10]
- The move to Visual Studio 2010 caused Messenger Plus! to stop working for a minority of users. The resource DLL of Messenger Plus! has been modified to solve this issue.
- Translations have been updated.
- A bug has been fixed in the Promotion System.
- Messenger Plus! has been reorganised for the development of Plus!5. Everything is now compiled with Visual Studio 2010 and managed in TFS.
- The setup has been modified to be compatible with project K (more about that soon :).
- The toolbar installation program is now downloaded by the setup dynamically.
- The new Promotion System has been improved internally to support more parameters.
- Fixed: in some cases, the Sweet IM add-on caused contact list problems when installed alongside Messenger Plus!.
- A toolbar is now included in every new download of Messenger Plus! in place of the old sponsor program. The toolbar has its own uninstaller and works like any other normal proper toolbar in your browser (it can be enabled, disabled, etc...). Its installation is still entirely optional.
- Fixed: the new Promotion System is now fully operational.
- Fixed: the Messenger Plus! icon logo in the contact list and in the chat windows is displayed incorrectly (mirrored) on Hebrew and Arabic versions of Windows Live Messenger.
- A new Promotion System has been included within Messenger Plus! for preliminary testing. This system will display promotional material in Messenger's windows by adding buttons in existing Messenger's button bars. These buttons are country specific and different buttons may appear in different countries. This system is what will finally let us put an end to the old sponsor program in the least intrusive manner. If you don't care about such things, uncheck the "Show me promotions" option in the Customize! preferences panel.
- 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.
- Messenger Plus! is now entirely compatible with Windows 7 (RC minimum) :
- The Messenger Lock feature has been fixed. A new icon is added to the tray in Windows 7 if an unlock keyboard shortcut is not specified.
- The default Messenger Lock icon in Windows 7 has been changed to blend in better in the new UI (hourglass: shell32.dll,323).
- Note: the jump list of Messenger will work properly when using the Multiple-Accounts (polygamy) option but you'll get the options for only one of your Messenger clients.
- Tabbed chats display a proper preview (peek) picture with a list of currently opened chats. Chats waiting for input are colorized in the thumbnail and Alt+Tab or Win+Tab combinations also display the proper picture.
- A couple of other minor fixes here and there to make the Windows 7 experience complete.
v4.84.382 [04-20-10]
- Translations have been updated.
- A bug has been fixed in the Promotion System.
- Messenger Plus! has been reorganised for the development of Plus!5. Everything is now compiled with Visual Studio 2010 and managed in TFS.
- The setup has been modified to be compatible with project K (more about that soon :).
- The toolbar installation program is now downloaded by the setup dynamically.
- The new Promotion System has been improved internally to support more parameters.
- Fixed: in some cases, the Sweet IM add-on caused contact list problems when installed alongside Messenger Plus!.
- A toolbar is now included in every new download of Messenger Plus! in place of the old sponsor program. The toolbar has its own uninstaller and works like any other normal proper toolbar in your browser (it can be enabled, disabled, etc...). Its installation is still entirely optional.
- Fixed: the new Promotion System is now fully operational.
- Fixed: the Messenger Plus! icon logo in the contact list and in the chat windows is displayed incorrectly (mirrored) on Hebrew and Arabic versions of Windows Live Messenger.
- A new Promotion System has been included within Messenger Plus! for preliminary testing. This system will display promotional material in Messenger's windows by adding buttons in existing Messenger's button bars. These buttons are country specific and different buttons may appear in different countries. This system is what will finally let us put an end to the old sponsor program in the least intrusive manner. If you don't care about such things, uncheck the "Show me promotions" option in the Customize! preferences panel.
- 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.
- Messenger Plus! is now entirely compatible with Windows 7 (RC minimum) :
- The Messenger Lock feature has been fixed. A new icon is added to the tray in Windows 7 if an unlock keyboard shortcut is not specified.
- The default Messenger Lock icon in Windows 7 has been changed to blend in better in the new UI (hourglass: shell32.dll,323).
- Note: the jump list of Messenger will work properly when using the Multiple-Accounts (polygamy) option but you'll get the options for only one of your Messenger clients.
- Tabbed chats display a proper preview (peek) picture with a list of currently opened chats. Chats waiting for input are colorized in the thumbnail and Alt+Tab or Win+Tab combinations also display the proper picture.
- A couple of other minor fixes here and there to make the Windows 7 experience complete.
v4.83.380 [03-20-10]
- The setup has been modified to be compatible with project K (more about that soon :).
- The toolbar installation program is now downloaded by the setup dynamically.
- The new Promotion System has been improved internally to support more parameters.
- Fixed: in some cases, the Sweet IM add-on caused contact list problems when installed alongside Messenger Plus!.
- A toolbar is now included in every new download of Messenger Plus! in place of the old sponsor program. The toolbar has its own uninstaller and works like any other normal proper toolbar in your browser (it can be enabled, disabled, etc...). Its installation is still entirely optional.
- Fixed: the new Promotion System is now fully operational.
- Fixed: the Messenger Plus! icon logo in the contact list and in the chat windows is displayed incorrectly (mirrored) on Hebrew and Arabic versions of Windows Live Messenger.
- A new Promotion System has been included within Messenger Plus! for preliminary testing. This system will display promotional material in Messenger's windows by adding buttons in existing Messenger's button bars. These buttons are country specific and different buttons may appear in different countries. This system is what will finally let us put an end to the old sponsor program in the least intrusive manner. If you don't care about such things, uncheck the "Show me promotions" option in the Customize! preferences panel.
- 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.
- Messenger Plus! is now entirely compatible with Windows 7 (RC minimum) :
- The Messenger Lock feature has been fixed. A new icon is added to the tray in Windows 7 if an unlock keyboard shortcut is not specified.
- The default Messenger Lock icon in Windows 7 has been changed to blend in better in the new UI (hourglass: shell32.dll,323).
- Note: the jump list of Messenger will work properly when using the Multiple-Accounts (polygamy) option but you'll get the options for only one of your Messenger clients.
- Tabbed chats display a proper preview (peek) picture with a list of currently opened chats. Chats waiting for input are colorized in the thumbnail and Alt+Tab or Win+Tab combinations also display the proper picture.
- A couple of other minor fixes here and there to make the Windows 7 experience complete.
v4.83.378 [02-17-10]
- 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.
- Messenger Plus! is now entirely compatible with Windows 7 (RC minimum) :
- The Messenger Lock feature has been fixed. A new icon is added to the tray in Windows 7 if an unlock keyboard shortcut is not specified.
- The default Messenger Lock icon in Windows 7 has been changed to blend in better in the new UI (hourglass: shell32.dll,323).
- Note: the jump list of Messenger will work properly when using the Multiple-Accounts (polygamy) option but you'll get the options for only one of your Messenger clients.
- Tabbed chats display a proper preview (peek) picture with a list of currently opened chats. Chats waiting for input are colorized in the thumbnail and Alt+Tab or Win+Tab combinations also display the proper picture.
- A couple of other minor fixes here and there to make the Windows 7 experience complete.
v4.83.376 [01-25-10]
- Messenger Plus! is now entirely compatible with Windows 7 (RC minimum) :
- The Messenger Lock feature has been fixed. A new icon is added to the tray in Windows 7 if an unlock keyboard shortcut is not specified.
- The default Messenger Lock icon in Windows 7 has been changed to blend in better in the new UI (hourglass: shell32.dll,323).
- Note: the jump list of Messenger will work properly when using the Multiple-Accounts (polygamy) option but you'll get the options for only one of your Messenger clients.
- Tabbed chats display a proper preview (peek) picture with a list of currently opened chats. Chats waiting for input are colorized in the thumbnail and Alt+Tab or Win+Tab combinations also display the proper picture.
- A couple of other minor fixes here and there to make the Windows 7 experience complete.
v4.83.372 [10-26-09]
- Messenger Plus! is now entirely compatible with Windows 7 (RC minimum) :
- The Messenger Lock feature has been fixed. A new icon is added to the tray in Windows 7 if an unlock keyboard shortcut is not specified.
- The default Messenger Lock icon in Windows 7 has been changed to blend in better in the new UI (hourglass: shell32.dll,323).
- Note: the jump list of Messenger will work properly when using the Multiple-Accounts (polygamy) option but you'll get the options for only one of your Messenger clients.
- Tabbed chats display a proper preview (peek) picture with a list of currently opened chats. Chats waiting for input are colorized in the thumbnail and Alt+Tab or Win+Tab combinations also display the proper picture.
- A couple of other minor fixes here and there to make the Windows 7 experience complete.
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