Vista Live Messenger beta released!


Posted by absorbation on Tue 05 Sep 2006 (17:28 GMT) (96155 views)
In early August I told you about a upcoming skin for Windows Live Messenger called Vista Live Messenger. The skin was designed to make Windows Live Messenger look and feel like the Windows Vista Aero theme, a popular concept for many skinners now.

A few hours ago a beta was released to hopefully gather opinions for the finishing touches to the skin. It looks great and hopefully you will like it to. Of course talking about a design is useless, you have to try it for yourself.

Note: The skin does not contain an installer at the moment. You simply have to extract the archive, copy and paste msgsres.dll into C://Program Files/MSN Messenger overwriting the current file. Make sure you close Windows Live Messenger down first and make a backup of the old msgsres.dll file beforehand, just in case you want to remove the skin.

Download Vista Live Messenger for Windows Live Messenger 8.0
Download Vista Live Messenger for Windows Live Messenger 8.1
View our guide on installing skins
Download Vista Live Messenger beta
View a screenshot Vista Live Messenger beta

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Comment by siil3nt_c0wboi
Posted on Tue 15 Jan 2008 (17:08 GMT)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=E010F88F-8574-4562-AF6D-48DD23026B9D&displaylang=en click that link and download Windows Messenger 8.0 And Install it, this is what you need to use the vista skin


Comment by hell-world
Posted on Wed 09 Jan 2008 (12:44 GMT)
Wooow very nice


Comment by natalija
Posted on Sat 15 Sep 2007 (15:03 GMT)
I love Žan.


Comment by marcio
Posted on Fri 31 Aug 2007 (23:50 GMT)
marcio


Comment by denis
Posted on Sun 05 Aug 2007 (15:46 GMT)
hihihihi


Comment by jackie
Posted on Tue 12 Jun 2007 (09:05 GMT)
ello help me i need sum msn syts for skl who can giv me sum


Comment by marko
Posted on Mon 04 Jun 2007 (20:06 GMT)
yoyoyo


Comment by Selena
Posted on Wed 23 May 2007 (01:28 GMT)
Are you guys gonna make a windows live vista skin for 8.1 version, it looks gud so it wud be nice if u did make one for the 8.1 version


Comment by rene
Posted on Sat 12 May 2007 (03:39 GMT)
hi rene mendoza


Comment by B
Posted on Sat 28 Apr 2007 (11:44 GMT)
I need help Where to find this file msgsres.dll so i can copy and past into msn messenger?????


Comment by Nikolai Niedermeier
Posted on Tue 24 Apr 2007 (17:08 GMT)
It doesn't work. Its cause I have version 8.1 and not version 8.0! So it only works with version 8.0 like ItchyFlakes said.

Cheers


Comment by Adi
Posted on Fri 13 Apr 2007 (14:45 GMT)
its not opening msn but i copy it to windows msn plus...this skin work in msn+??


Comment by Taelyn Stubbs
Posted on Fri 06 Apr 2007 (00:27 GMT)
how do i sign on


Comment by kasab
Posted on Mon 19 Mar 2007 (10:28 GMT)
khac you


Comment by Gergő(Hun)
Posted on Sat 17 Mar 2007 (19:47 GMT)
Don't work!! File msgsres.dll dont!!!!!
Somebody write how can us!
I have WLM 8.1 final


Comment by daz
Posted on Sat 10 Mar 2007 (00:03 GMT)
yo this is mint clas hahha


Comment by Aquino
Posted on Mon 05 Mar 2007 (18:41 GMT)
I replaced the file and now messenger wont open i know im doing something wrong plzzz Help.


Comment by rOrO
Posted on Sat 03 Mar 2007 (16:57 GMT)
wOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW
its vary nice


Comment by fatih
Posted on Sun 25 Feb 2007 (23:29 GMT)
I can't made it
really help me plzzz


Comment by chris lucas
Posted on Sat 24 Feb 2007 (11:57 GMT)
hey guys iv just lost my original msgsres.dll file and then new one has taken away all of my contacts! what the devil do i do now?


Comment by ahmed
Posted on Sat 17 Feb 2007 (19:19 GMT)
thn


Comment by ItchyFlakes
Posted on Fri 16 Feb 2007 (00:10 GMT)
for those of you who have problems make sure you have 8.0 not 8.1


Comment by triekus
Posted on Mon 12 Feb 2007 (22:53 GMT)
hi

i have just installed the skin and works really nice .

butt now i cant see my contacts anymore how come .
does anyone has the same problem and can somewone help me whit this .

thanks .....


Comment by Win.All.Way.Kool
Posted on Mon 12 Feb 2007 (05:54 GMT)
i have the same problem with the messed up skin...


Comment by Kyros
Posted on Fri 09 Feb 2007 (19:35 GMT)
I got a special problem, I do everything by the rules, but when I start Messenger my skin looks like it has been cut. My avatar is split in half and the halfs are switched up and down. Also when I log in, all my contasts are gone and all the information about them, I guess I just can' see them. When I backup, everything goes back to normal.


Comment by iznogood
Posted on Thu 08 Feb 2007 (14:46 GMT)
For people who got problem installing the skin:
1- Close msn messenger
2- Copy and rename the dll in your msm messenger folder, making a backup of your old msgsres.dll file.
3- If its not working, check your processes (ctrl-alt-del) and (task manager) and kill msnmsg process.
4- after its working for me.


Comment by tabby
Posted on Wed 07 Feb 2007 (16:02 GMT)
very gd


Comment by MarkG
Posted on Wed 07 Feb 2007 (10:20 GMT)
Nice skin mate looks sweet, BIG thanks to bilal for the help with install


Comment by Patrick
Posted on Wed 31 Jan 2007 (04:44 GMT)
hi, i overwhrite several times and it won't work. than i put back the old and work but i don't have the cool new look. Can you help me. Thanks in advance!


Comment by Quentin
Posted on Wed 24 Jan 2007 (17:16 GMT)
Oh yeah.. What a great skin.. I followed Bilbal's instructions and guess what? It worked .. Thanks to you Bilbal...


Comment by Akki
Posted on Sun 21 Jan 2007 (17:57 GMT)
Hey Guys....I really thank you for making such a nice skin...Thanks to Bilal for providing details of how to make it work...I really appreciated it...Keep up the excellent work


Comment by cam
Posted on Sun 21 Jan 2007 (01:44 GMT)
thanx heaps bilal only if i had chekced this earlier tahnx alot it works now


Comment by RajVora
Posted on Sun 14 Jan 2007 (08:45 GMT)
When will it become compatible with wlm 8.1..?


Comment by Zo
Posted on Tue 09 Jan 2007 (01:39 GMT)
it wont work... ;( itz retarded i really want it but i got so angry at it when it took me 10 minutes 2 figure out what to do and i was so hyped and excited i opened it and it was the same can someone tell me what to do !!!!!!!1 i read the stupid instructions but i dnt no wat 2 do still! arghh lol


Comment by KIM
Posted on Wed 03 Jan 2007 (15:03 GMT)
thanx very much this is great


Comment by Scotty
Posted on Sun 31 Dec 2006 (22:59 GMT)
when will you make the avaliable to new messenger beta (8.1.168.0)


Comment by bilal
Posted on Tue 26 Dec 2006 (22:04 GMT)
sik skin, nice job guys, i was just reading nathans comment, and at first, the same thing happend to me, the installer thing would show up, and nothing would happen, in this case, u have to go into the MSN messenger folder, in prgram files, and u will see 2 files, one called msnvista.dll, the one that u dowloaded from here, and pasted it in the mesenger folder, and u will relise their is also a msgsres.dll file as well, so what i did was cut that file, pasted it in another folder, and renamed the vista.dll file msgsres.dll, and it worked, hope i helped


Comment by meastro
Posted on Tue 26 Dec 2006 (19:45 GMT)
Cannot get it to work


Comment by zool
Posted on Mon 25 Dec 2006 (11:27 GMT)
man, it's cool...


Comment by cam
Posted on Mon 11 Dec 2006 (00:04 GMT)
its a sick as skin but i dunno how to install can u please help me cuz i want it ...n how do u make a backup file as well??


Comment by THE GAL
Posted on Mon 04 Dec 2006 (16:08 GMT)
WELL WHAT CAN ISAY THIS IS THE BESTEST SITE EVER. ITS JUST SO GOOD YOU GET EVERYTHING ON IT! AND TO WHO EVER SET IT UP YOU ARE THE COOLEST PEACE OUT


Comment by mahmoud
Posted on Thu 30 Nov 2006 (10:23 GMT)
than youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu


Comment by nathan
Posted on Thu 30 Nov 2006 (08:10 GMT)
hey..its look pretty cool in ur screenshot...
i replaced tht file tht it said 2 replace...
i opened my windows live messenger, and it just said 'Windows Installer' thn closed windows live messenger down.. i went back in to windows live messenger, and i dont hav the cool skin??
someone plz help?? it wuld b very greatful!!


Comment by T-Jay
Posted on Wed 15 Nov 2006 (04:20 GMT)
This thing rocks plz continue ur work on this peace


Comment by Him
Posted on Sat 04 Nov 2006 (17:59 GMT)
Hi, i've just installed this skin on a friends computer, but now when i want to install it on my own, my msn won't startup when i use the vista msgsres.dll - but if i then change back to the original msgsres.dll it will startup just fine as usual. How do i fix this?


Comment by line
Posted on Wed 01 Nov 2006 (22:27 GMT)
the only thing dat i didnt lyk in this is that wen u r viewing ur contacts at full screen wiv the display pics showing, the name n personal info r centered, overall its pretty neat tho


Comment by vuckan
Posted on Tue 31 Oct 2006 (23:07 GMT)
I love it!
The only thing is that it seems to lack the function of choosing size of your contacts, or it's just me who can't find it.


Comment by mohamed
Posted on Sat 28 Oct 2006 (16:14 GMT)
hi


Comment by Hasib
Posted on Wed 25 Oct 2006 (10:35 GMT)
hello
it is great and fantastic.plz use this apportunity it really great.


Comment by Adel Hardy
Posted on Tue 10 Oct 2006 (02:12 GMT)
plz anyone help me i can't install the skin its so cool and i want it but i can't use this file anyone plz help


Comment by absorbation
Posted on Wed 06 Sep 2006 (19:47 GMT)
I noticed before you sent me the messages Matti, you seem to tell me the second I learn lol. Thanks anyway. It is a good skin, the point of the beta is to get feedback really. But an installer is a must . Thanks again Matti


Comment by Matti
Posted on Wed 06 Sep 2006 (19:07 GMT)
Yup, I've got noted of this skin by Stian himself, I wanted to report Abso earlier but he was AFK.

This skin is great, however some improvements can still be done before it hits the final release. (e.g.: contact list tabs and DP shine)
And for anyone interested in the original DeviantArt page and be up to date with the last release, here it is. http://www.deviantart.com/view/39255778/


Comment by the andyman
Posted on Wed 06 Sep 2006 (15:53 GMT)
very nice

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