Application Details:
| Version: | 7.5 |
| License: | Free to use |
| URL: | http://messenger.msn.com |
| Votes: | 2 |
| Latest Rating: | Gold |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 9.14 |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
What does not
Workarounds
What was not tested
Run well but does not connect get error 80090009.
Hardware tested
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Additional Comments
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Arch Linux x86_64 | Aug 15 2024 | 9.14 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Cassie | |
| 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 | No | Bronze | an anonymous user | |
| Show | openSUSE 11.4 | Jun 05 2011 | 1.3.21 | Yes | Yes | No | Garbage | an anonymous user | |
| Show | Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | May 25 2010 | 1.2-rc1 | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | 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.
