There used to be literally hundreds of skins for MSN Messenger, it was simple to skin, and there were many installer scripts around. With Windows Live Messenger comes slightly harder skinning and the loss of Jamach, the guy who would complier most installers. This resulted in less skins being made.

The skins I have found only work on certain builds. They all should work on any of the non-beta releases of Windows Live Messenger 8.0. Some come with an installer, others require you to overwrite a file:

You simply have to copy and paste msgres.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 msgres.dll file beforehand, just in case you want to remove the skin.

Well here are the skins. Enjoy!

>> Vista Dark Blue Messenger
>> WLM Ixtli Skin
>> WLMBlackVista
>> Serbian Live Messenger
>> Windows Live Black Vista
>> Vista Live Messenger
>> Wlm Zex [screenshot]
>> Mess With Messenger
>> WMP 11

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