Application Details:
| Version: | 7.5 |
| License: | Free to use |
| URL: | http://messenger.msn.com |
| Votes: | 2 |
| Latest Rating: | Silver |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 5.5 |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
The login screen works and the application installs fine. gdiplus.dll and riched20.dll are required as overrides to allow the application to display the login screen correctly.
What does not
Cannot login, cannot connect to the network. All connection tests however show to be successful.
Workarounds
What was not tested
Everything apart from the menu items and login screen.
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Manjaro Linux 19.0 | Apr 04 2020 | 5.5 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Silver | Axessta | |
| Show | Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Apr 30 2012 | 1.5.3 | Yes | Yes | Bronze | an anonymous user | ||
| Show | openSUSE 11.4 | Jun 05 2011 | 1.3.21 | Yes | Yes | Garbage | an anonymous user | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | May 25 2010 | 1.2-rc1 | Yes | Yes | Silver | an anonymous user | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Oct 07 2009 | 1.1.29 | Yes | Yes | Bronze | an anonymous user |
Using winetricks install: msxml3, flash, riched20
Then just install MSN Messenger 7.5 with the default Windows xp version.
After the installation using winecfg change the Windows version to win2k.
And you will have you're almost perfect MSN Messenger 7.5.
