Disable Windows Live Messenger Aero Frame Border

January 31st, 2010 . Filed under: Live. Tags: , ,

By default, Windows Live Messenger, comes with its Aero border enabled. But if you want, you may also disable this aero frame, to give it a clean look.

To do so, open regedit and navigate to the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Live\Messenger

In the right pane, create a new DWord AeroWindowFrameEnabled and give it a value ‘0‘.

This will disable the Aero border or frame.

Giving it a value ‘1′ will enable it.

Alternatively, you may also download these registry keys and add them directly to your registry.

Download: Enable / Disable Windows Live Messenger Aero Frame.


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    By MiQi on February 5th, 2010 at 10:34 PM

    Its diff in 64bit windows 7 ultimate…
    I cant find the AeroWindowsFrames in windows 7 ultimate 64 bit…

    By Windows Club on February 5th, 2010 at 10:37 PM

    ^ You may have to create a new DWord AeroWindowFrameEnabled

    By Paul D on February 7th, 2010 at 3:41 AM

    ^ That is not entirely correct. The instructions as posted are only for the 32-bit Windows.

    Using the 64-bit windows the key is: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows Live\Messenger

    The rest of the directions remain the same other than that.

    By Windows Club on February 7th, 2010 at 9:54 AM

    Thanks Paul. I use Win7-32 hence was unaware of 64 :)

    By dave t on February 16th, 2010 at 10:28 AM

    @ Paul D. I’m using Windows 7 Home Premium x64 I followed your instructions but it still doesn’t work for me.

    By dave t on February 16th, 2010 at 10:33 AM

    sorry Paul D. My mistake I didn’t know that I selected QWORD instead of DWORD I did that and all worked.

     

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