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
What works
- Logging in
- Adding contacts
- Chatting (sending photos, emotes, nudges)
What does not
- By default, the login boxes don't work.
- Sometimes, the application crashes when you try to pick someone on your contacts list. Ignore the crash message, but don't close it.
- Voice calls and recordings
- Winks don't display the animation
- Handwriting
Workarounds
To get login form boxes to work:
winetricks corefonts gdiplus msls31 msxml3 riched20 riched30 tahoma flash
What was not tested
- Video and voice chat (don't work)
- Recieving voice messages
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
Using the Escargot pre-patched MSI installer from https://escargot.log1p.xyz/.
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Current | 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 |
| 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) | RESOLVED | 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 |
How to install:
The combined Windows Live Installer does not work. Therefore, to install the software, do the following:
