In Windows Live Messenger 2009 on Windows Vista and Windows 7, Aero is used for drawing the window frames of your contact list and conversation (chat) windows. You want the original Messenger frame back, but you don’t want to disable Aero completely in Windows? The solution is: Use the Messenger
Category: Windows Live
Announced in 2005, Windows Live offers you a broad set of tools to communicate with your friends: Windows Live Essentials applications, web services, and mobile services.
Windows Live Events stops accepting new events
As mentioned in an earlier post, Windows Live Events is entering its first retiring phase today. This means that from today on, you will not be able to create new events. Existing events can be exported until 2010. The Windows Live team says: Starting in early September, 2009, you won’t
How-to screencast — Messenger 2009: Set your scene
Using scenes, you can customize Windows Live Messenger to suit your mood. Scenes are like wallpapers: choose an image you like and glue it not only into your contact list, but also into the conversation windows that your friends use to chat with you! Watch this video to get started.
Messenger problems: Handwriting does not work
If you want to switch to the handwriting feature in Messenger, but that is failing, try the following: Install Microsoft Windows Journal Viewer 1.5. Restart your computer after the setup is complete. Then, install the security update for Windows Journal Viewer. Restart your computer again. Now sign in to Messenger
How-to: Internet Explorer 8—Add Gallery emoticons to Messenger
If you are using Internet Explorer 8 and see the following note when trying to add emoticons from Windows Live Gallery to Messenger: “This feature is only available in Internet Explorer 6.0 and higher.”, try this tip to get the import working again. In Internet Explorer, click Tools, then Compatibility
How-to: Correct red eyes with Windows Live Photo Gallery
Windows Live Photo Gallery offers numerous optimization tools for your photos. A frequent phenomenon are red eyes in photos. Using Photo Gallery, you can remove them easily. Here is how: Double click the photo you want to edit, to open it. Click Fix in the Windows Live Photo Gallery toolbar,
How-to: Stay secure while using Hotmail
In recent days, e-mails from spammers have surfaced spreading malware. Getting your computer infected by malware might result in your password being compromised and your Windows Live ID subsequently hijacked and abused for sending more spam. How can you identify bad mail? Recognizing bad mail A typical virus e-mail has
Trackback problems with Windows Live Spaces?
Trackbacks are used primarily to facilitate communication between blogs; if a blogger writes a new entry commenting on, or referring to, an entry found at another blog, and both blogging tools support the TrackBack protocol, then the commenting blogger can notify the other blog with a “TrackBack ping”; the receiving
Phasing out Windows Live Messenger 8.1, 8.5 and 2009 QFE1
“Beginning on August 25, we started asking our customers using versions 8.1, 8.5 and 14.0 to upgrade to the newest version of Messenger.” This is what the Windows Live Messenger team is announcing in regards to phasing out old Messenger versions in the coming weeks. Here is the roadmap.
Read receipts in Windows Live Mail: dangerous?!
“This message contains an attachment whose file type is considered dangerous. The file has been deactivated.” This is what I read in the Windows Live Mail preview pane, each (!) time when I receive a read receipt from a recipient who is using Microsoft Outlook. What attachment is blocked? Files