Messenger Plus! is an essential add-on for MSN Messenger and Windows Messenger. Lots of features are available for everyday use, for work, or just for fun! Here are the features:
Send Custom Emotion Sounds To Your Contacts!
The Custom Emotion Sound feature brings sound integration in MSN Messenger to the next level by allowing users to send their own sounds to any of their contacts during a conversation. Sounds are played instantly on both ends and are transferred automatically and transparently when needed. New emotion sounds can be created quickly from existing sound files (such as MP3s) and can be recorded live from a microphone or any other audio source. If sound authoring is not your thing, thousands of sounds can also be imported directly from the public database and many web sites offer themed Sound Packs for download.
Various Messenger Tweaks
With Plus!, you can rename your contacts to tidy your contact list, see statistics about your buddies in order to clean up your contact list, make your windows semi transparent, automatically accept file transfers, filter words from the messages you send or receive, and much more!
Enhance your messaging experience!
You can have your own personalized messages to send to your contacts when they contact you while you're idle or away! Messenger Plus! also offers 50 slots for instant Quick Texts, customizable automatic messages that you can send with a simple shortcut or typed command, quick icon panels to make it easier to insert your emoticons without having to remember their codes, a Text Recall feature to resend recent messages, the ability to search inside your conversations and a Quote Sender.
Advanced Logging
Before MSN Messenger even showed a sign of logging, Messenger Plus! already offered it. Plus!'s logging is much different than MSN Messenger's logging, with archiving, encryption with passwords, and let's not forget the fact that you can log every event!
Other Messaging Features
Messenger Plus! gives you the possibility to choose any color you want for front and background, and add formatting, such as bold, italic, underlined and stoke-out. It also lets you control almost every aspect of Messenger via text shortcuts called commands, much like the ones in IRC chat.
Enhanced Notifications
If you don't use Hotmail, you can choose to be notified whenever a new e-mail arrives in your POP3 mail account (up to five can be configured!). Additionally, you can receive toast-style notifications for any contact event, like when contacts their nick or go offline.
Security & Privacy Control
Messenger Plus! offers a Boss Protection feature that hides Messenger and your conversations with a shortcut, even notifying who you were talking with about the situation. It also allows you to lock your Messenger with a password when you leave the computer and, for permanent privacy, it can encrypt all your logs so that only you can read your previous chats.
Fully multilingual
Messenger Plus! is completely translated into more than 25 different languages, all included in the default setup package.
A beautiful, simple and user-friendly interface
Despite its hundreds of features, Plus! keeps everything organized in a single preferences dialog, completely redesigned in Plus! 3 to simplify the user experience and be more pleasant to use. However, Messenger Plus! also lets you access many features via commands sent in conversation windows, global shortcuts and context menus.
Plug-ins Architecture
Just in case you find Plus' features not enough, you can also download plug-ins to add new capabilities. Visit the plugins section to know more and get them!
And, last but not least, FREE!
Messenger Plus! is a freeware. You are even encouraged to send it to your friends! Of course, it does not contain any type of spyware or trojan. The optional sponsor program can be installed during the setup, risk free! For those who want to support the development but prefer not to install the sponsor program, you are encouraged to visit the online Messenger Plus! store, or give the developer a minute of your time by sending a postcard.
Note: Messenger Plus! is a freeware. Freeware is neither spyware nor shareware but freeware. It's 100% free to use and you can choose whether you want to install the sponsor program that comes with it or not.
What's new in version 3.51.128 released 12/04/2005?
* Since Messenger Plus! version 1.00, the way the software attaches itself to Messenger had not changed very much. Some people have always experienced startup problems, caused by different kinds of programs installed on the computer. These problems should now be solved thanks to a new option added to Messenger Plus!. Read the following only if you're interested in technical details
.o The Misc section of the preferences now offers 3 methods to control the way Messenger Plus! hooks Messenger: Default Mode, Default Mode - Forced, and Alternate Mode (only available in Windows 2000/XP).
o Default Mode is the way Messenger Plus! has always used so far. Keep it that way if you never experienced problems related to the Plus! menu disappearing for no apparent reason. Default Mode - Forced is equivalent to the previous "Enable Force Mode" option and is just a trick applied over the same Default Mode to try to compensate for poorly designed softwares when the system startups.
o Alternate Mode is the new mode of interest. This mode sets a special registry key in Windows (called AppInit_DLLs) to ask Windows to load the MsgPlusLoader.dll directly when a new process is created. The end result is the same as with the Default Mode, however, this technique normally prevents other softwares from breaking the hook chain.
o Alternate Mode is in theory better than Default Mode because once it's activated, MsgPlus.exe does not need to be running for Plus! to attach to Messenger. Note that MsgPlus.exe is still not automatically removed from your computer startup when Alternate Mode is selected, that's because MsgPlus.exe is responsible for doing some basic installation diagnostic and displaying the Recovery Window. However, if you remove the MessengerPlus3 value from the Run key, everything will continue to work properly (see below).
o More and more software now monitor registry changes to "protect" users from unwanted programs. Depending on how those software are configured, changed in the Run key may be prevented automatically or by default, creating the now well known "I have to reinstall Messenger Plus! every time I restart my computer" problem. Messenger Plus! now checks for the existence of its value in the Run key and if it can't find it, Alternate Mode is automatically selected to repair the problem.
o Note that the registry key used to activate Alternate Mode could also be monitored by a software installed on your computer. Trying to enable Alternate Mode and preventing the registry change to occur will simply result in Messenger Plus! not working anymore. As any other program, Messenger Plus! adds/changes registry settings to function properly. Badly designed registry monitor programs cause much more problem than they prevent, for any program.
* The Recovery Window has been modified. When "Automatically Repair" is selected, the software automatically switches from Default Attach Mode to Alternate Attach Mode and back again from Alternate Mode to Default Mode when needed.
* The "HandleMessengerStart" registry setting has been documented and now also controls how the new attach mode operates.
* A /notif command has been added which opens the Notification Configuration window for a given contact.
* The /sendfile command has been fixed for the final version of Messenger 7, however, no parameter is allowed for this command anymore (remember that you can use /dropfile too).
* Sound Pack files (with a plp extension) are now associated to Messenger Plus! in the Windows shell. This means that the sound packs now have a nice Plus! icon attached to them and you can import a sound pack just by double clicking on it. Note however that MSN Messenger or Windows Messenger must be running for the import to succeed.
* When sending a custom sound, if the server takes some time to respond and you switch to another window, the focus is restored before the sound is actually sent to your contact (that way, the sound is properly sent).
* The custom emoticon problem for the Quick Icon panel and MSN Messenger 7 has been fixed.
* In several windows of Messenger Plus! (like the event viewer and the floating windows), the status icons now use the Messenger 7 style (in MSN Messenger 7 only).
* Fixed a bug that stopped handwriting to work when a contact sent a message while drawing (this bug was only happening when custom names were enabled).
* Wink messages are now properly logged and formatted in the chat window.
* Added improvement in Messenger Plus! to let plugins like StuffPlug add something before custom contact names (like timestamps).
* Emoticons are showing properly in personal messages displayed in the chat window when custom names are used.
* The enhanced Plus! icon in the contact list is now more tolerant to color variation (fixes problems when using a 16bits display).
* Animated GIF now look better in the Quick Icons panels (their transparent background is always properly removed).
* A new little extra has been added to the software, find it
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Disclaimer: As mentioned earlier - Messenger Plus! is a freeware. Freeware is neither spyware nor shareware but freeware. It's 100% free to use and you can choose whether you want to install the sponsor program that comes with it or not. Still if u're afraid of Spyware due to lack of trust or uncomfortable in anyway, DO NOT install the software. TechEnclave.com or any staff member won't be responsible for any harm it does to you or your system.
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