How to disable Windows Live Messenger’s minimize animation?

I genuinely loathe Windows’ minimize / maximize animation and the first thing I do on a new Windows installation is to disable this effect. My problem is that Windows Live Messenger persists on showing this animation even though it is disabled on system settings. Is there a way to stop Windows Live Messenger from doing … Read more

How to remove my mobile icon in MSN?

When I’m offline, the icon of mobile appear to other people at MSN. How can I remove this icon, to people don’t see it anymore? I already saw the option “allow friends to send messages to my mobily phone”, but this item is already unchecked and disabled to manage. Answer All solutions I found use … Read more

8007064c(2011) and 80280007(2009) persistant after all known repairs [closed]

This question is unlikely to help any future visitors; it is only relevant to a small geographic area, a specific moment in time, or an extraordinarily narrow situation that is not generally applicable to the worldwide audience of the internet. For help making this question more broadly applicable, visit the help center. Closed 11 years … Read more

Lightweight, user-friendly Multi-IM / MSN alternatives for Windows?

A friend of mine dislikes how clunky/bloated the Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger client is – pretty much stopped going on MSN because of it. I want to offer him an alternative client that can log onto MSN. I’m aware of the regular multi messenger clients: Pidgin, Trillian, Miranda, etc but I’m wondering if these are … Read more

Making MSN Explorer the default email program on Vista

A friend just bought a new computer running Vista Home Premium 64-bit. I installed MSN Explorer which he used before for email and web browsing. He wants to set his default email program to be MSN Explorer so that if he tries to send email from other applications like Picasa, MSN will pop-up. Unfortunately I … Read more

Free software for parental control of MSN and Internet in Windows XP [closed]

Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Super User. Closed 5 years ago. Improve this question I’m looking for some free parental control software for Windows XP that will allow restriction of applications (MSN, Internet (IE or FF)) based … Read more

How to remove my mobile icon in MSN?

When I’m offline, the icon of mobile appear to other people at MSN. How can I remove this icon, to people don’t see it anymore? I already saw the option “allow friends to send messages to my mobily phone”, but this item is already unchecked and disabled to manage. Answer All solutions I found use … Read more

8007064c(2011) and 80280007(2009) persistant after all known repairs [closed]

This question is unlikely to help any future visitors; it is only relevant to a small geographic area, a specific moment in time, or an extraordinarily narrow situation that is not generally applicable to the worldwide audience of the internet. For help making this question more broadly applicable, visit the help center. Closed 11 years … Read more