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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

Free Download Download Link (Standalone installer)

Test Results

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What works

You can login and check the contact list.

What does not

You're unable to chat because you can not see what you're writing or what others are writing to you. Also the UI looks really bad.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Winks

Hardware tested

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Additional Comments

Check the How to.

selected in Test Results table below
Operating systemTest dateWine versionInstalls?Runs?Used
Workaround?
RatingSubmitter
ShowFedora 27 x86_64May 31 20183.8-stagingYes Yes YesBronzeknuxfanwin8 
ShowDebian GNU/Linux 6.x "Squeeze"May 18 20121.4Yes Yes NoBronzean anonymous user 
ShowUbuntu 9.10 "Karmic" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Jul 13 20101.2-rc7Yes Yes NoGarbagean anonymous user 
ShowUbuntu 9.10 "Karmic" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)May 30 20101.2-rc2Yes Yes NoGarbagean anonymous user 
ShowUbuntu 10.04 "Lucid" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)May 29 20101.1.42Yes Yes NoSilveran anonymous user 

Known Bugs

Bug # Description Status Resolution Other apps affected
201 Igowin: masking problem - image is not transparent CLOSED FIXED 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
8555 No large display pictures in MSN Messenger 7.0 CLOSED FIXED View
10059 Windows Live Messenger 8.x login boxes unusable CLOSED DUPLICATE 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
14252 Windows Live Messenger 8.1 just show a blue box. GdipImageGetFrameCount, GdipImageGetFrameDimensionsList and GdipImageSelectActiveFrame unimplemented CLOSED FIXED View
14472 msn messenger 8.5 final cannot connect CLOSED DUPLICATE View
14473 msn 8.5 final does not show the initial screen CLOSED FIXED View
16769 MSN Messenger 7.0 Don't redraw the chat window correctly CLOSED FIXED View
18668 WLM 8.5 is very slow CLOSED ABANDONED View
18669 Display picture in WLM 8.5 is blank CLOSED DUPLICATE View
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) CLOSED FIXED View
18936 Windows Live Messanger 8.5 crashes when receiving new message CLOSED FIXED View
19004 Windows Live Messenger 8.5 and 2009 installer fail to start CLOSED ABANDONED View
21186 Windows Live Messenger: No text in the chat window from version 8 and up CLOSED ABANDONED View
22437 Internet Download Manager (IDM) 5.18 can't connect to Internet CLOSED ABANDONED View
24280 WLM 8.5 crash at login CLOSED ABANDONED View
29902 Windows Live Messenger 8.5 does login, error 81000378 CLOSED ABANDONED View
29942 Windows Live Messenger 8.5, lock in chat windows CLOSED ABANDONED 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:

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

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