Grab the Mess Patch and customize Windows Live Messenger 8.5 beta the way you want to instead allowing Microsoft bombard you with ads and links to their other products and services. The best feature of the Mess Patch is that it will remove those ads found at the bottom of the main window. Messenger looks a lot better when all the ads have been stripped away.
Here’s what my main panel looks like once the Patch has been applied:
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I really like the Mess Patch a lot more than I expected to. It really provides quite a few options to customize the look and feel of messenger. Thanks for posting … Now that I have it and 8.5 at work it makes even chatting about work matters a bit more fun. 😉
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