Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
Have a good number of friends? Hate to browse through the looooonggggg list of friends when you need to catch up with someone quick? Wished there was a grid view option?
Guess what? Facebook do have a "hidden" grid view option.
To have a grid view of your friend list first go to your Friends menu.
Now click on the Show drop-down menu.
And now... time for the magic spell ;)
Click on the -- option in the drop-down menu. (under Online Now option)
This will give us a grid view of our friends list.
You can also access this grid view with this direct link: ...
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Thursday, July 19th, 2007
Do you want a @live.com email address instead of @hotmail.com? You can use this trick:
1) Make sure you're logged out of your current account and then go to www.hotmail.com or get.live.com/mail/overview and sign up for a free account.
2) At the signup page, go to the address bar and in the URL replace hmnewuser.aspx with newuser.aspx (remove the hm) and remove the &hm=1 afterwards. Hit enter.
3) You can now sign up for a brand spanking new @live.com address!
Credits: ScottIsAFool from LiveSide!
Taken from: Mess.be
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Sunday, June 24th, 2007
Are you unable to install Windows Live Messenger 8.5 Beta (MSN Messenger 8.5)?
Do your installation gets stuck at "Please wait a few moments while we get your computer ready for the installation..." ? The installer disappears and does not continue after this screen?
You can proceed with the following:
Make sure you have "show hidden files" set on your system.
You can set it by going to "View > Folder Options"
And select "Show hidden files and folders"
If you are on Windows Vista, browse to:
C:/ProgramData
And if you are on Windows XP, browse to:
C:/Documents and Settings/All Users/Application Data
Now delete the folders WindowsLiveInstaller and WLInstaller. ...
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Thursday, May 31st, 2007
Quickly following the few days old leak of an internal 8.5 build, Microsoft is officially releasing the beta version to public. It is exactly the same version (8.5.1235.0517).
Download it directly from Microsoft:
http://g.live.com/1rebeta/WLMsgr85_en-us
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Tuesday, May 29th, 2007
As you might already know that several leaked distrubition of Windows Live Messenger 8.5 (some will still call it MSN Messenger 8.5) has been tampered. The tempered installers may bundle ads and spywares.
MenthiX has provided an official installer digitally signed by Microsoft.
You can varify it from Properties > Digital Signatures of the downloaded installer.
But the installer is in Español and you will need to patch it to make it English.
I am providing you detailed step-by-step instructions with screenshots of how to install and get the english version of WLM 8.5.
First download the following 3 files:
Español Installer: ES_Install_WLMessenger_8_5.exe
Language Patch: msgslang.8.5.1235.0517.dll
Messenger Plus! ...
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Saturday, April 28th, 2007
imagine-windowslive.com is giving away some free Windows Live Messenger themes. A theme includes a background image and a matching display picture. It changes your WLM window color scheme aswell.
To grab your free theme go to:
http://imagine-windowslive.com/Themes/Vibe/Default.aspx?Layout=condensed
On the page you will see a list of available themes. Choose your one and click on the download link.
It will start downloading the content.
You will get the confirmation when the installation finishes.
Here is your newly installed theme:
Need more themes? Just refresh the page. ;) You will be presented with new free themes. =D
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Friday, April 20th, 2007
Dawgs Domain has created a tool which will retrive your lost Windows Live Messenger password. A great tool if you have forgotten your password and dont wanna go through or cannot retrive it though the microsoft .net passport password recovery process. Many times we do signup using fake address, zip, birth date.... And some ppl are just too lazy to go through the process.
The author claims it has been legitimately made for people that forget their password and not to used to hack your friends msn password. ;)
To recover your Windows Live Messenger password you need to download this small ...
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Friday, April 20th, 2007
Are you getting the error code 8100030d when trying to sign-in to your msn messenger or windows live messenger?
You can try the following:
Step 1:
Go to Start > Run
Step 2:
Type the followining in the Run dialogue box:
regsvr32 softpub.dll
And click OK.
Step 3:
Again type the followining in the Run dialogue box:
regsvr32 Dssenh.dll Gpkcsp.dll Slbcsp.dll Sccbase.dll
And click OK.
You should now be able to sign-in to your msn messemger or windows live messenger.
Regsrv32 is a command-line tool registers .dll files as command components in the registry. More information on the Regsrv32 command can be found here.
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Thursday, April 19th, 2007
Are you getting the error code 8100030e when trying to sign-in to your msn messenger or windows live messenger?
You can try the following:
Step 1:
Go to Start > Run
Step 2:
Type the followining in the Run dialogue box:
regsvr32 Softpub.dll Mssip32.dll Initpki.dll
And click OK.
You should now be able to sign-in to your msn messemger or windows live messenger.
Regsrv32 is a command-line tool registers .dll files as command components in the registry. More information on the Regsrv32 command can be found here.
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Thursday, April 19th, 2007
Here is a list of msn messenger error codes (also includes windows live messenger error codes) i have aggregated. The errors i have been able to solve has been linked to the solution. Ill try to find solution for the rest. And if you notice a new error which has not been listed here, please drop a comment with the error code (and msg if possible).
Here is my aggregated list:
MSN Error Code 1603 Fix
MSN Error Code 80048820 Fix
MSN Error Code 8000402a Fix
MSN Error Code 80072efd Fix
MSN Error Code 80072ee7 Fix
MSN Error Code 800b0001 Fix
MSN Error Code 80004005 ...
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