Digging around Windows Live Messenger “Wave 4” bits, looking for a way to turn off the permanently enabled SmartScreen-based link scanner, I stumbled on a flag that disables/enables the Aero window border.
If you’re interested in that sort of thing, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Live\Messenger and create the DWORD value AeroWindowFrameEnabled with its data set to 0 or 1.
For those on 64-bit platforms, don’t forget you need to tack on Wow6432Node after the Software\ node, or you’ll be fishing around in 64-bit waters. (Windows Live Messenger is a 32-bit process.)
Given how poorly this works (e.g. can’t move the window, no title bar), I’m guessing it’s unfinished or on its way out.
Given that’s what the title bar looks like for WLM Wave 3 on XP and systems without Aero enabled, I’m guessing it would be unfinished stuff for supporting those systems.
I am guessing it’s a leftover from Windows Live Messenger Wave 3. Since Windows Live Messenger Wave 4 doesn’t support Windows XP, Microsoft didn’t bother updating the none-Aero version.
Is it even worth using the unofficial preview bits?
Rafael,
More to the point, do you have download link for Live Wave 4 you can share?
http://r27.it/2010/06/09/nuova-build-di-windows-live-essentials-2011-beta-diffusa-sul-web/
http://www.mediafire.com/?yzzuy0dmoyt
Gives a login error though.
It works alright on wave3, it has text + you can move the titlebar like normal etc… it would be on the way out with wave4 and above.
Rafael, have you patched the signin check, or you official beta tester? If patch are you going to release?
worst and ugliest messenger out there and you put spotlight on it -_-
what about getting the user frame in .png format? is there a way?
@ Hakon – Look at Yahoo Messenger first, then talk about ugly ;-)
It’s a very attractive suite of applications actually.