New Windows Live Messenger Wave 4 Tips and Tricks

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Windows Live Messenger Wave 4 Beta is out and available for download now!

Windows Live Essentials includes the Windows Live Messenger. Here are a few basic tips & tricks to help you get started!

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1) To turn it into Compact view: Click on the top-right side corner button to turn Messenger into compact view.

compact view New Windows Live Messenger Wave 4 Tips and Tricks

This is how it will look now!

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2) Appear offline to ONLY one of your friend: Till now you were able to keep you status offline to avoid interaction from some of your friend, but now you can set your status to offline for the contact you want.

Just right click on contact name and choose “Appear offline to this person”.


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3) Know more about your friends: Wan’t to know what your friend is recently doing in his social network, than just right click on its name and choose “View Social Updates”


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4) Disable ads from Windows Live Messenger:Whe you hover your cursor over the ads which appear at the bottom, they may just expand to cover the whole Messenger screen, which is quite irritating!

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If you want to disable these ads, go to System32\Driver\etc folder and take full control of Hosts file. Open it and add the following line in it. Save it.

127.0.0.1 rad.msn.com

That’s it!

5) View message History: If you don’t remember where did you left your conversation last night with your contact than click on File > “View Message History”.

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What do you think of Windows Live Messenger Wave 4? I just love it!

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The author, Ritesh is a Desktop Application Developer who enjoys and learn new coding and web languages by experimenting and playing with them. Troubleshooting & Tweaking Windows is his favorite pastime.

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  • tuibm

    it Sucks… if you put “appear offline for this contact” option to certain contact, and you logout yo must set that option again…. i would like the simple “block contact” option

    If you are appearing offline… you must put “appear online for this person” then you need to close the window and open it again to chat with that contact…. (to many clicks for talk with one person)

    You CANNOT change your display name any more…. sucks

  • George

    It’s the worst msn to date. They took everything good and removed it. The added socialness is nice, but tottaly un useful and all the removed features!!!

    No more hand drawing!!
    No more nicknames!!
    Can’t do video chat with older versions!!

  • Scott

    This build is the worst messenger app to come out of Redmond, to date. It is either broken, missing or flat out removed – do not download this.

  • Hanneth

    SUCKS!!!

    Microsoft appears to be determined to make their products as hard to use as possible. They only somehow fluked out with Windows 7 and actually made it mostly usable.

    I only use this piece of crap at work and one of the things I did the most was right click on the person and view history, now they’ve made this a 25 step process, how stupid. *Over exaggeration on purpose*

    If you look at Pidgin, or Trillian they have had spell checking forever. Is Microsoft incapable of doing this? They have it in Word.

  • Rick

    Hate it … no more contact card (where I used to keep notes that reminded me of important personal things about the contact … now have to open the entire profile — slow and cumbersome … also how I wish we could sort contacts again by emai, address as once upon a time we could …

  • Deanna

    I seriously hate this. I miss my nicknames. I miss my handwriting tab. I miss not blinding myself when I open a messenger window in the wee hours of the morning – since I was using Plus to use a dark theme that no longer works. I’ve been using MSN since version 7, and, until now, I’ve been able to cope with their crap. But this bastardization of the program I used to be rather fond of is not okay. And if I wanted to know what my facebook friends were up to every hour of every day, I’d have added them on Messenger. Yeesh.

  • Gideon

    Sorry but I’m gonna agree with the rest and say this is the worst version to date. A lot of bugs, keeps crashing for a lot of people, no handwriting, the part to block people takes too many clicks, unable to search for an email in your messenger, unable to add a contact to a group while adding him.
    The previous Windows Live has better features although this beta version has a cleaner look.