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
Install works fine, but you have to set windows version at least to xp. Program starts up ok but when you try to log in, it refuses asking you to upgrade to a new version of messenger. Just set windows version back to 2000 and it'll login.
Conversation is ok, games where not available and it may be related to flash plugin.
What does not
Opening external papes with wine internet explorer is tricky
Workarounds
What was not tested
Not tested voice and video.
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
Follow advice for how to install messenger 7.0, the two version are very similar.
| 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 |
| Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
| 201 | Igowin: masking problem - image is not transparent | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 3534 | Systray icons are not transparent... | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 4087 | Window decorations don't show up after being hidden | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | View |
| 4781 | MSN Silently cannot connect to network | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
| 5971 | MSN Messenger 7.5 has no username, password area | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
| 8300 | Title bar shown in window style that does not have one | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 8498 | MSN Messenger 7.x reports error 0x80070057 when signing in (failure to validate xml) | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 8555 | No large display pictures in MSN Messenger 7.0 | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 12718 | Typing the username in MSN Messenger 7.5 is really slow | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 12965 | Weird border in MSN Messenger when hiding tittle bar | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 13196 | Icons with inverted color or without transparent background | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | View |
| 15334 | richedit: cursor doesn't change when over a scrollbar | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 16147 | Webcam doesn't work | REOPENED | View | |
| 20188 | MSN Messenger 7.5 hangs while signing in | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
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.
