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Category: Main Networking & Communication Chat, Instant Messaging, Telephony Windows Live Messenger - discontinued 8.5 (Windows Live Messenger)

Windows Live Messenger - discontinued

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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

installing pretty good, login screen, main window, chat window are working. chatting work

What does not

audio, video, display pictures have some problem(just seemed at small size), auto text sliding in chatting window, 

Workarounds

What was not tested

games, winks(need properly installed flash player)

Hardware tested

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Additional Comments

sometimes wlm windows get some colour problem

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 Bronzean anonymous user 
ShowUbuntu 9.10 "Karmic" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Jul 13 20101.2-rc7Yes Yes Garbagean anonymous user 
ShowUbuntu 9.10 "Karmic" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)May 30 20101.2-rc2Yes Yes Garbagean anonymous user 
CurrentUbuntu 10.04 "Lucid" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)May 29 20101.1.42Yes Yes Silveran 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) RESOLVED FIXED 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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