Windows Live Messenger 8.0 BETA

Welcome to my review about windows live messenger 8.0, windows live messenger 8.0, the windows live messenger 8.0 was released on 13th December 2005.windows live messenger 8.0 is very good for chatting to your friends, but now there is windows live messenger 8.1, 8.5 and windows live messenger 2009.

==Windows Live messenger 8.0==

Windows live messenger is much better than windows live messenger 4.7, you can change your ...
...show your song information from windows media player as a personal message you can either tick the box or not tick the box.

You can either choose to show your display picture and allow others to see it or not to tick the box you can press change picture and se what pictures you have to put or you can browse pictures. You can also modify the description of yourself sop your contacts can't see it, to do that press edit profile, now ... more

Welcome to my review about windows live messenger 8.0, windows live messenger 8.0, the windows live messenger 8.0 was released on 13th December 2005.windows live messenger 8.0 is very good for chatting to your friends, but now there is windows live messenger 8.1, 8.5 and windows live messenger 2009.

Windows Live messenger 8.0

Windows live messenger is much better than windows live messenger 4.7, you can change your status to online, appear offline, away, in a call, busy, be right back, out to lunch, online everyone can see you if you are online, appear offline you can still talk to someone without anyone seeing you online, if somebody sent you a message they say: you received instant messages while you were offline. By default, your offline messages are shown automatically when you sign in. for instructions about how to change this setting, click more information. Also if you signed out the same message would come, to get rid of seeing the messages when you sign in press don't show me this message again. Away they say something like this car.dude42 is away and may not reply. In a call is like the same as away. Be right back is like the same too. Out to lunch is the same like away.

Now about the options there is personal, general, messages, alerts and sounds, sharing folders, file transfer, phone, tabs, security, privacy, connection. The personal is like your display name like I put car.dude42 so my contacts can see my display name and you can type your personal message , so your contacts can see it when you are talking to someone your personal message doesn't appear when you send instant messages just your display name, but your personal message appears at the corner at the side of your email. In addition, you can show your song information from windows media player as a personal message you can either tick the box or not tick the box.

You can either choose to show your display picture and allow others to see it or not to tick the box you can press change picture and se what pictures you have to put or you can browse pictures. You can also modify the description of yourself sop your contacts can't see it, to do that press edit profile, now about the status they say show me as away when I'm inactive for 1 minutes(you can put it also for 2 minutes or any number until 59 or 60) and they say dhow me busy and block my alerts when I'm running a full screen program or presentation settings turned on, now the last one for personal is about the webcam you can either tick the box that says allow others to see that I have a webcam or if you don't want your contacts to see your webcam don't click the box. now general about signing in: it Is if you want to run windows live messenger when you first turn on the computer or not just click the box to accept that you want windows live messenger to run when you first turn on the computer and not to accept it don't click the box(it is annoying when you first open the computer and the windows live messenger comes before I connect to the internet. So I advise you don't put windows live messenger to run when you turn on the computer and if you clicked on to run windows live messenger another thing comes open windows live messenger in the main window when windows starts you can accept or decline you know how now but if you didn't accept to run windows live messenger when you turn on the computer windows live messenger doesn't start, also when you first connect to the internet you automatically sign in to the messenger you know now accept or decline by clicking the box and not clicking the box, also they say show windows live today when I sign into windows live messenger . windows live today you can see who sent you messages, news about today, msn online games, etc but the bad thing about it is that sometimes when you press on hotmail it doesn't work, the same thing as the one before about accepting and declining I have said that lots of times, also use the same display picture and personal message whenever I sign in you know now what to do, now displaying your contacts it is show display pictures from other accept or decline? Now their quality improvement this is what they say join our costumer experience improvement and many more I advise you don't join them and they say allow Microsoft to collect anonymous information about how you use windows live messenger also I don't lie this too, now about the video carousel this is what hey said show video carousel in the main windows live messenger window I accepted that and then now the effects: show shadows under window frames I accepted that thing. Now we move to messages: you can change font by pressing change font or when you are talking to someone there is like this and b press on it and you can change your font from there, there is show emotions (I sometimes don't show my emotions so my friend doesn't keep on telling me send me emotions that's why they keep on saying that because I think I have 200 emotions, , but the bad thing about it that my friends emotions will not appear so he can't add them . . . then I modified my emotions and made them in () so it wouldn't appear when I'm sending an instant message so then my friends send me more LOL). . .

now show custom emotions, the custom emotions are these mini pictures that don't move like in messenger 4.7, now show timestamps on messages they tell you what time your contact sent you the instant message? and there is many many more, this is not in order but for the privacy thing is the contacts that you have added and who has added you(like any person that has added you and you didn't add him or you deleted the contact also you can bloc contacts that have added you just need to click on the contact and press allow(which is the same as unblock) or if you want to block the contact press on he contact and press block, to see who has added you press view), that is really it just one thing you can accept or decline this it is alert me when someone has added me).

Now when you are talking to your contact there is a face of an emotion when you press on it there is the featured emotions (when you press on one of the featured emotions, in your conversation window there will be like a mini window which has downloading progress and it takes less than a minute or sometimes one minute, but you will have lots of emotions if you press on all of them you will have about 50 emotions or more, which will be similar to the same as the pictures that are featured, also you can make emotions from a picture you have but it would be like a custom emotion(because it wouldn't move). You can download emotions from sites and if you download one of the messengers I think there will be emotions .Now there is a custom emotion that has one eye open is the winks, if you press on the featured winks you will have lots of winks the winks you can't add them like the emotions, to add an emotion just press on it right click, add then choose the word or letters that you want, now back to the winks if you press on the featured winks you will have lots of winks, I know that I said that before but the bad thing about this one is that you can't make winks not like the emotions. There is an emotion which has its mouth wiggly and he looks like he is going to die that is a nudge(maybe that's why it looks like its going to die), when you press on that emotion for your contact they say car.dude42 has just sent you a nudge it makes a sound that sometimes annoys you.

After that there is a voice clip to make a voice clip you need to press on the button and record but you need to have a webcam to do that(there is another way to record a voice clip, there is at the top of the window which has like a phone and something. Then there is the a/b which means the font(I like comic sans ms it looks attractive, when you do it black), the bad thing about windows live messenger 4.7 and 8.0 it doesn't have a lot of colours about 15 colours or less (I don't know but it doesn't have a lot of colours), then there is a background there is featured backgrounds they are the same as the featured emotions and featured winks but the backgrounds aren't dynamic they are like pictures, there is only four dynamic backgrounds they are some fish in a pond, the second one is lots of clocks which shows the time, the third one is like a scientist(which I call him crazy man) with some potions with an algebraic sum and some light scribbles, the last one is like you are underwater. You can also create a background(but they are not dynamic). You can write messages in your handwriting(to know how to do it you will now know, when you are writing a message at the corner there is like this pen on a paper and press on it, but look carefully), when you press on it, there is the same picture of the pen on the paper and a mini arrow(the only thing different about it is tat it has an arrow) when you click on the arrow there is fine, normal, bold, it is for you when you want to write a message, if you try fine it is bad, if you try normal it is quite good, if you try bold it is excellent(this is all in my opinion but yours maybe different), then there is the rubber and a arrow, when you press on the arrow there is: small, big, stroke and clear all , the small clears a small bit, the big one is the same, the stroke- is excellent( it clears a lot), ad clear all clears all of it (but maybe you don't want all of it to be cleared?) (so that's the bad thing about it). The next one is the undo and the redo, the undo returns the stuff that you made and redo does the opposite. The next button is the colour that you want to write or draw with it has a arrow press on it and 16 colours will appear. The next button is if you want to make a grid it has a arrow as well press on it and there will appear blank, small grid, medium grid, large grid, the blank grid is all blank, the small grid is quite small(but it is good for writing in capital letters in your handwriting) , the medium grid is alright, the large grid is bad(this is all in my opinion).

Now I will talk about the top of the conversation window first there is the invite button, share files, start or stop a video call button, call a contact, see a list of activities button, see a list of games button, block this contact from seeing you or contacting you.

The invite button is that if you have a contact online you can invite him to your conversation , if there isn't anyone online you can't invite anyone until a person signs in, there is another button go to action, invite someone to this conversation, now the share files button, the share files button is if you want to share files with your friend like pictures and that stuff press share files and choose the file that you want to send, there is another button for share files go to file share single file and that's it for share files.

Now stop or start a video call to make a video call just press the button and start talking, if you don't have a webcam you can't record a video call but if your contact sent you a video call you can hear it, there is two ways for making a video call, go to actions, video, start a video call and the second way is after the nudge there is this button which has a speaker press on it until you have finished recording. Now call a contact, to call a contact you need to sign up with a site ad write your contacts number, where are you calling from ?etc, there is another way for calling a contact actions, call, call computer or call phone. Then there is the see list of activities button, this isn't very good , there activities aren't that good, there is also another way to see a list of activities it is: actions, start an activity. Then there is see a list of games, there games aren't that good too boring, there is also another way to see a list of games, actions, play a game. The next button is block this contact from seeing you there is three ways for this: go to options, privacy, press on the contact that you want to block ,then press block, the second way is go to windows live messenger, right click, block this contact, the third way is to right click on the contacts picture, block this contact. After a lot of steps there is like a paint brush you can change the colour of your conversation with that, after it there is a dumb show button when you press on the button there is file with an arrow, edit with an arrow, actions with an arrow, tools with an arrow, help with an arrow.

If you press file thee will appear save, save as, send a single file, open received files, in grey there is view message history(because I don't save the previous conversations, you can save your conversations but I don't like saving conversations I find it too messy.) In addition, the last one is close (they mean close window).

The next thing is edit when you press on it there will be undo ctrl+z(if you didn't delete something or pressed cut, it will be grey, if you pressed delete or cut, you can press undo or ctrl+z), the next one is cut(if you didn't press cut, the cut button will be grey there is a shortcut for cut it is ctrl+x , the next one is copy (its shortcut is crtl+c), it would be grey if you didn't cut or copy something, to be a sort of blackish you need to copy, and cut something, the next one is paste(its shortcut is crtl+v), if you copied it, it would be a sort of blackish and if you didn't copy anything it would be grey, the next one is delete(its shortcut is del), it keeps on being grey if you delete something it would still be grey(OK it doesn't matter), the next one is select all(its shortcut is crtl+a), it would be black if you pressed select all or crtl+a or you can just highlight it. the next one is search(it doesn't have a shortcut), actually it has one when you are writing a message to your contact next to the send button is like this magnifier that is the search button(also I have told you how to search), the next one is change font, thee are a lot of shortcuts, the first one is right click, change font, the second one is tools, options, messages, change font?..the third one is edit, change font ? ?..

now we move to actions(this is the last one that I'm going to write about for windows live messenger 8.0, there are many more but I am bored so actions is the last one, I will tell you what are the other two the one after actions is tools, and the last one is help), now back to actions? the first one for actions is to invite a contact to join this conversation(you can't add somebody to the conversation ,unless he/she is online, if your contact isn't online you can't add them to the conversation, did you now understand???

The next one is send an instant message(you can't send an instant message unless your contact is online, I don't know about this but I think they also mean by sending an instant message to send an offline instant message), now we have finished from that, now send other with an arrow(if you press on it there will be single file?.etc, the next one is call a contacts computer , ( to call a contact you need to sign up with a site ad write your contacts number, where are you calling from ?etc, there is another way for calling a contact actions, call, call computer or call phone ),

The next one is video with an arrow(Now for video there is video call, to make a video call just press the button and start talking, if you don't have a webcam you can't record a video call but if your contact sent you a video call you can hear it, there is two ways for making a video call, go to actions, video, start a video call and the second way is after the nudge there is this button which has a speaker press on it until you have finished recording) , the next one is start an activity(the activities aren't that good, there is also another way to see a list of activities it is: actions, start an activity. Then there is play a game, the games aren't that good too boring, there is also another way to see a list of games, actions, play a game, thee is another shortcut for start a game, when you are sending an instant message or offline instant message at the top there is like a picture of a game and press on it, the next one is request remote assistance (really I don't know what that is) and many more.

What is I'm inactive

The I'm is a program made by Microsoft and I'm got released in March 2007, you can only use I'm in windows live messenger 8.1 and above.

Adding a Contact

It is very simple to add a contact all you need to do is to press ContactsAdd Contact or there is like a person with a plus on his body, it is before the two arrows (that are above each other), then press on that person with an arrow, and the same page will appear. When that page comes you write the person's email address then you have to write your personal invitation(if you don't want it doesn't matter, because I never write the personal invitation), then the mobile device (it is only used for text messages), you need to put where is your contacts mobile device(I just leave it, if you put the location you need to write your contacts phone number), that's why I don't put anything, anyway you can't write all of your contact's phone number, because there is a little box which you need to write the first part of your phone number, maybe if you put the location you just need to write the second part of the phone number(I don't know), then there nickname (if you want to put a nickname you just write anything, when your contact signs in they say for example the dude has just signed in and if you put no nickname it will appear as car.dude42, then which group will you put your contact in, the groups are coworkers, friends and family, you need to choose one of them, then we move to the section contact first you need to write your contact's first name(I don't do that, I just add the contact and I press add contact), then you need to write your middle name(also I don't write this one), then the last name(also I don't write this), then the nickname (if you want to put a nickname you just write anything, when your contact signs in they say for example stinky has just signed in, if you didn't put the nickname it will appear as dopey), then we have the home number of your contact's home(also I don't write this). Then we have the personal email(this on I do it to add a contact), then there is the work phone(I don't write anything in this one), then we move to the work email(I don't write anything in that), then we move to other phone(also I don't fill this one), then we move to other email address (also I don't write anything here), then we have other instant messaging address(I don't put anything in this one), the we have the primary email address(you can either choose personal, work, instant messaging address or other, but I don't choose anything of those. Now we move to personal in personal there is the street address (I didn't write anything there), then there is the city (also I didn't put anything in it), then there is state/province( also I didn't put anything, then there is the zip/postal code(I also didn't put anything there), then there is the country/ region(also I didn't put anything there), I'm bored now we move to the section work, in the work section, you don't have to write which company your contact is in, then there is the job title(maybe you have a friend in school and he doesn't work, so don't put anything), now there is the same thing again the street address, so if you wrote it in another section, you don't have to write it again, then there is the city that you are in, also if you wrote the city also don't write anything, if you want you can write it again or you can leave it blank, I'm bored lets move to notes, you can write anything there and that's it.

Blocking a contact

There are three ways to block a contact , the first way is click on the contact -> right click-> block contact, the second way is to go to options -> privacy-> click on the contact which you want to block and press block, if somebody added you and you didn't add him/ her back and they still have you in your contact list you can press on that contact and press bloc(to see who added you ad you didn't add him/ her back press view), the third one is when you are chatting to your friend you can press like a messenger guy with a sign, then a message will appear it is;if blocked, this contact will not be able to have online conversations or see your online status, and the conversation window will be grey until you unblock your contact. If you want to unblock a contact press on the same person this time without the red thing with his hand, and you will be able to unblock the contact. There are also three ways for unblocking a contact, I have already told you one way, now the second one, the second one is: click on the contact that you want to unblock, the right click->unblock. Now the third way to know press options-> privacy-> unblock and that's it.

A Warning

The warning is that don't even press more emotions, because it will take you to a site called sweet IM because it is full of VIRUSES! Each emotion and pictures, winks..etc have virus I each emotion, if you pressed on one emotion 1 virus will enter your computer, if you just opened the site, all the stuff there will be counted as a virus, maybe altogether there is 180 emotions, pictures, winks?etc. so don't open the site. Any site that has emotions has lots and lots of viruses.

Thanks for reading

Car.Dude42~~~9th~~~Febuary~~~2009 

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