Windows Live Messenger - discontinued

Windows Live Messenger 8.5 is an updated build as part of the Wave 2 series. New features include a new UI, improved Vista support, and more integration with Live Folders and Sharing Folders, as well as a new installer and the usual assortment of bugfixes.

Application Details:

Version:	8.5 (Windows Live Messenger)
License:	Free to use
URL:	http://messenger.msn.com
Votes:	12
Latest Rating:	Bronze
Latest Wine Version Tested:	3.8-staging

Maintainers: About Maintainership

Bartosz Kosiorek

Free Download Download Link (Standalone installer)

Test Results

Old test results

The test results you have selected are very old and may not represent the current state of Wine.

Selected Test Results

What works

- Log in/out

- Conversation

- Multichat

- Emoticons

- Nudges

- Send/Recieve files

- Options

What does not

- Personal images

- Special characters

- It is Slow

Workarounds

What was not tested

- Webcam
- Games

Hardware tested

Graphics:

GPU:
Driver:

Additional Comments

Using winetricks, I installed: flash gecko gdiplus msls31 msxml3 riched20 riched30 tahoma I also installed the visual c++ libraries: vcrun6 vcrun2003 vcrun2005 vcrun2005sp1 vcrun2008. I don't which are needed, but I installed everything just to be sure. You have to download a standalone ".msi" installer. Then, using winecfg, I configured msnmsgr.exe for running in Win2000 mode.

selected in Test Results table below

	Operating system	Test date	Wine version	Installs?	Runs?	Used Workaround?	Rating	Submitter
Show	Fedora 27 x86_64	May 31 2018	3.8-staging	Yes	Yes	Yes	Bronze	knuxfanwin8
Show	Debian GNU/Linux 6.x "Squeeze"	May 18 2012	1.4	Yes	Yes		Bronze	an anonymous user
Show	Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Jul 13 2010	1.2-rc7	Yes	Yes		Garbage	an anonymous user
Show	Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	May 30 2010	1.2-rc2	Yes	Yes		Garbage	an anonymous user
Show	Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	May 29 2010	1.1.42	Yes	Yes		Silver	an anonymous user

Known Bugs

Bug #	Description	Status	Resolution	Other apps affected
18889	Multiple isolation-aware applications fail to load (MSN Messenger Live 2009, Lync 2010, Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, Quicken 201X)(embedded PE manifest search should support ISOLATIONAWARE_MANIFEST_RESOURCE_ID)	STAGED		View
29902	Windows Live Messenger 8.5 does login, error 81000378	NEW		View
29942	Windows Live Messenger 8.5, lock in chat windows	NEW		View

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HowTo / Notes

HOWTO

To install Windows Live Messenger you need to use Winetricks to install ie6 and msxml3.

HOWTO

How to install:

The combined Windows Live Installer does not work. Therefore, to install the software, do the following:

Download the Raw MSI file from here
msiexec /i wlm85.msi (it won't show any window)
After installing, using winetricks you have to install: flash, msxlm3, gdiplus, riched20
Set Windows version to win2k
Start Messenger

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