With the great little program A-Patch for Windows Live Messenger you can completely customize Windows Live Messenger and MSN Messenger. Continue reading for a brief but detailed tutorial on using A-Patch.
- Start by determining which version of Windows Live Messenger you’re using. To do so, select the ‘drop down’ button (see image below) from the top of WLM, then choose Help -> About Messenger.
- A small pop-up window will appear. Look for the version number. Visit the A-Patch download page and download the appropriate version.
- Extract the .exe file and double-click it to launch A-Patch.
- Review the options on the initial Welcome screen. If you didn’t install Windows Live Messenger in the default location, click the … button and navigate to the folder where you installed it. Otherwise, click Next.
- And here’s the first of several options screens. Determine which features you want to enable and/or disable by placing a check in each of the appropriate boxes. If you hover your mouse over any of the selections, you’ll get a more detailed description of that option. And don’t worry - anything you change can be undone later. Click Next to move to the next screen.
- Again, more options. Review them, select them, click Next.
- Review, select, Next.
- Review, select, Next.
- Wow there are a lot of things you can change. Review, select, Next.
- And again..
- And again..
- Finally, the last screen. Once you’ve made your final selections, click the Apply button.
- A warning pop-up window will appear asking you to confirm that Windows Live Messenger is closed. If it’s not, close it now. Then click OK.
- If you didn’t close Windows Live Messenger, the patch won’t work.
- A-Patch should now display a “successfully patched” window. Leave Launch MSN Messenger checked, and click Exit.
- And check out your “new” Windows Live Messenger!
- If you want to undo anything, or make additional changes, simply run A-Patch again.
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Be careful of this download, Avast antivirus reported Trojan Virus in the zip file.
I go to open this file, and it freezes up the folder it’s in.
gostaria de tirar o virus do msn sem perder os meus contatos pelo amor de deus me ajuda naum sei mais oque fazer
hi!
since I downloaded windows live messenger I keep getting pop up wep sites.
I uninstall the messenger and they stopped, I would liket o install the messenger again but prevent the pop ups. Any suggestions how to prevent pop ups!!
thanks
Be careful, it froze my WLM 8.5.1302, I couldn’t launch WLM anymore after I applied some settings. I had to restore those settings in order to use my live messenger again. And the “remove Advertisment” tool doesn’t work for me, I still see ads on bottom of the main window. Sorry but this sucks… maybe it’s only for the U.S. (english) versions of MSN, WLM respectively.
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