Use Messenger Reviver 2 to bring back Messenger and beat Skype
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May 19, 2017
Microsoft’s Messenger server is no longer operating. Please read about the discontinuation, and download the farewell release.
March 12, 2015
Now Windows Live Messenger 2012 only
With the removal of the last servers supporting the older version of the Messenger protocol, versions of Messenger prior to Windows Live Messenger 2012 will no longer work.
If you’re using Windows XP, Mac OS X, Linux, or any other non-Microsoft Messenger client, you will need to either use Skype or the web-based Messenger client in Outlook.com.
Windows Live Messenger 2012 current issues:
- When you sign in you will briefly see a message indicating that your e-mail address is not verified. This started on on March 5th. It can be ignored.
- Hyperlinks will need to be copy/pasted to a browser as they presently don’t show up as a hyperlink.
Messenger Reviver 2 automatically installs, repairs and/or modifies Windows Live Messenger 2012, 2011, 2009, and 2008 as well as Windows Messenger to continue signing in despite being blocked by Microsoft.
Reviver 2 supports modifying all language versions and can automatically install either 2009 or 2011/2012 versions in 47 different languages.
You will receive one of the following messages if you’re being forced to upgrade to Skype:
A newer version is available. You must install the newer version in order to continue. Would you like to do this now?
A newer version has been downloaded and is available. You must install this newer version in order to continue. Would you like to do this now?
To bypass the forced upgrade, download my Messenger Reviver 2 utility and run the application. As this requires changes to Messenger you may receive a message asking you to allow Reviver to make changes to your computer.
Reviver will automatically attempt to detect if Messenger is still installed, which versions are eligible for modification and if you need to run a repair or new installation to bring Messenger back (if Skype has removed it).
Also available: Messenger Reviver 2 zipped if you are experiencing problems with running Reviver.
Requirements
Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10
To revive Messenger, click Start and the process will automatically modify Messenger and restart it.
If Windows Live Essentials is not installed, you will presented with options to either install Messenger 2009 or 2012 in the language of your choosing. Reviver will attempt to guess which language you prefer based on your prior Windows and Essentials language settings.
Additionally if Essentials is still installed, but Skype has removed it, you will be offered to repair your Essentials installation.
Advanced
If you wish to do a manual re-install or repair, you can select these options by clicking the Advanced button and choosing the function you would like.
If you are attempting to revive Windows Messenger on Windows XP and do not have Windows Live Messenger already installed, use the Patch Messenger option in this menu to revive it without further Live Essentials installation.
Easter Eggs
As Messenger Reviver 2 will probably be my last exclusive Messenger project, I have added a few small Easter eggs into the application for fun.
Animated MSN butterfly
When you open Reviver, you’ll find an animated MSN butterfly in the main window. This is the original butterfly that flew around from MSN Messenger 5.0. Based on highly advanced software engineering, the butterfly will fly around, flaps its wings or just sit quietly. If you click the butterfly when it’s not busy, it will react accordingly.
Messenger spinner
If you click the About button, you’ll find the original Messenger signing in spinning animation in the top-left hand corner.
The MSN sound
Back in 1996, MSN had a sound they used for their advertising which accompanied the various letters of M-S-N. I was fairly fond of it, and I’ve included it in Reviver. Single-click the above mentioned spinner to initiate the sound and watch the letters light up.
There’s one more small addition, but I’ll let you find that one yourself 🙂
If you need help…
Please leave a comment here, visit the forum, the live chat, or contact me directly.
Concise version history (full history)
| May 19 2017 | 2.4.9 |
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| May 17 2017 | 2.4.8.55 |
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| May 10 2016 | 2.4.8.0 |
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| Feb 12 2016 | 2.4.7.0 |
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| Jan 27 2016 | 2.4.6.3 |
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| Oct 3 2015 | 2.4.5.4 |
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| Aug 10 2015 | 2.4.5.0 |
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| Jul 29 2015 | 2.4.4.0 |
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| Mar 21 2015 | 2.4.3.0 |
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| Mar 17 2015 | 2.4.2.0 |
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| Mar 12 2015 | 2.4.1.0 |
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| Dec 20 2014 | 2.4.0.0 |
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| Dec 5 2014 | 2.3.5.0 |
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| Nov 13 2014 | 2.3.0.0 |
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| Apr 16 2014 | 2.2.5.0 |
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| Feb 19 2014 | 2.2.4.0 |
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| May 13 2013 | 2.2.2.0 |
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| May 07 2013 | 2.2.1.0 |
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| May 04 2013 | 2.2.0.0 |
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| Apr 25 2013 | 2.1.0.0 |
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| Apr 25 2013 | 2.0.1.0 |
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| Apr 24 2013 | 2.0.0.1 |
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| Apr 23 2013 | 2.0.0.0 |
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Posted on April 23, 2013, in Messenger, Messenger Tools, MSN Messenger, Skype. Bookmark the permalink. 2,540 Comments.
Jonathan Kay, MessengerGeek 
Bonjour Jonathan, je suis nostalgique de MSN Messenger 7.0 / 7.5, n’y aurait t’il pas une solution pour que l’on puisse se reconnecter à ces anciens programmes? En les réécrivant ou en les modifiants ?
Je vous remerci pour votre réponse en espérant que ce soit possible
À plus tard et Merck de la France 🇫🇷
hello
1) Windows antivirus detects a trojan in your program
https://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/threat/encyclopedia/entry.aspx?name=Trojan%3aWin32%2fFethar.B!plock&threatid=2147708975&enterprise=0
2) the server for adding new friends is down
please check
regards
1) Another day, another false positive. You will need to use the zip version until Microsoft fixes it, or disable Defender for a few minutes to revive your client.
2) You can add contacts fine, but anything beyond that (like the Member Directory) was shut down years ago.
thanks for the reply
1)but the message was a little bit scary ion the first place.
also the two .exe ( unzipped and direct download ) have very different sizes .
2) it was the search for adding contacts
I was informed this morning from Microsoft that they have confirmed the false positive. If you update to today’s virus definitions you can download and use Reviver as per normal again.
The search was the member directory. If you’re looking for contacts, you may want to check out the forum.
Everytim I try to connect, I get an error coded 80090004, just as when it was offline back in the days. Latest version, tried both zipped and “regular”. I don’t disregard the idea of being doing something wrong, though
This error code means you are using Windows 8.1 and have not installed Windows Updates since December 2013 where this problem was fixed. If you are avoiding updates, you can install this update manually – 32-bit version or 64-bit version.
When I enter appears the error ” can not get into windows live messenger ” error: 80072745 , please help me
Thanks a lot !! MSN Messenger FTW ! I was on it in 2001, and it was so bad to go on Skype…!
But, we can’t use Wizz and Wink ? It’s not so important but… I miss it !
Thanks again, nice job.
the winks still aviables
Hello
not sure if it is related to your porogram but after using it to revive Messenger I wanted to upgrade from W7 to W10 and it failed to downloas the upgrade with GWX , I have to use Windows update !
Retrospectively , I would have prefered to know what your program is doing and to do manually the procedure.
Cordially
If you want the classic desktop icon, search for “explorer.exe” then click on properties>change icon and copy the link to the icon file. After that click on the Windows Live shortcut >properties>change icon and paste the link and choose the classic icon. Looks better 🙂
I downloaded it and it works! I just need a bit of help with something. The last few years I used my Gmail account to sign in to MSN, and I believe you had to somehow connect that to Windows Live. When I try to sign in with my most recent account, it says I have entered an incorrect password (when I am 110% sure it is the correct one). I try to send in ‘forgot password’ and am redirected to the Live account page, where it says this email address doesnt exist in its database. I reconnected my Gmail account with Microsoft and made sure the password was the same, but I still get the message ‘The Windows Live ID or password you entered is incorrect’ with error code 80048821. Any ideas how to work around this?
if past two years and don’t connect to your Hotmail, this account is deleted. Msn now not support gmail or yahoo, only outlook.com , live or hotmail
Greetings
Hi Jonathon, Love your work. I read on the other page, how you said this app was being flagged as malware by MS and Google. But tthat they had fixed it or withdrawn the link block (Or something)
Just wanted to let you know, that just now on my W10 I clicked the link to DL .2.4.7.4 and I was hit by a Smartscreen Filter block!! Luckily this one is easy to bypass, but Hmmm. Raspberrys to MS. And thumbs up to you!!
Cheers, Brent Rossiter, Christchurch, N.Z.
Thanks Brent, the “unrecognized app from starting” warning is actually normal and expected. Until more people download and use this version of Reviver, that one will show up and everyone will have to click the More info link, and Run anyway button.
It actually could be prevented from the start but requires several hundred dollars per year, legal checks and other work that I’m not presently prepared to do.
pal, i have one issue, I can’t seem to add new contacts to my list, is there any way to do it?
You can add and accept contacts as per normal. The only exception is if you have multiple requests, in which case you can use Butterfly Messenger to respond to them (and then switch back to normal Messenger).
Additionally, from time to time the back-end servers for modification of contact lists has experienced outages, but it seems to have been more reliable as of late.
Hello there, is there no chance that 2009 will ever work again?? Or a mock version that lets you access your account? I like ’12 and all but it’s just sad to see 2009 and all previous to that go 😦 thank you for messenger reviver either way!
i have 800488a6 << this error what is this
Error Messenger 8004884b. How do I solve it?
I just would like to thank again and again about your wonderful work ! Seriously, thank you for everything. I’m so glad to have MSN back !
M.
Error 80090004. What can i do??????? HEEEEEEEEEEELP.
This means you are using Windows 8.1 and need to run Windows Updates. This was a bug in Windows that Microsoft fixed in an update a few years ago.
Thanks!! Great job
how can I solve this?
my windos is updated
Dude, I installed Live Messenger 2012 and Reviver 2, when I clicked on Start button, it was ok… reviving… but, when I insert login e password, it just erase everything (no error message) Do you know how to fix it? Thank u
Error 8004884b, what can I do? Please
URL bloqueada: O redirecionamento falhou porque a URl usada não está na lista de liberação nas configurações de OAuth do cliente do aplicativo. Certifique-se de que o login de OAuth do cliente e web esteja ativo e adicione todos os domínios do seu aplicativo como URls válidas de redirecionamento de OAuth.
Unfortunately Facebook is no longer supported in Messenger or Microsoft applications. A few more details can be found at the office support site
bonjour,jonathan,j’ai trés bien compris que windows live messenger 2012 n’étais plus pris en charge part facebook.
mes pensser vous que un jour cela puisse revenir sur windows live messenger 2012,parce que moi je suis trés intérésser part cette aplication, ou même une autre aplication qui soit équivalent,moi tout ce que je demande c’est que sa cerais de pouvoir a nouveaux avoir accer a facebook, part l’intermédiére de windows live messenger 2012.
peux importe l’application temps que sa me donne l’accer a facebook part l’intermédiére de windows live messenger.
je vous demande donc de bien vouloir faire le necessaire même si cela vous donne du temp,pour moi ce n’est pas trop grave mes c’est surtout pour les autre personne,parce que je pensse que je ne doit pas être la seule personne a avoir ce probléme,et je pensse que je ne doit pas être la seule personne a vous demander cela,mes si c’est le k que je suis la seule personne a vous le demander,je vous demande de bien vouloir me le signaler,et comme sa j’abbandonnerais peux être de demander a droit et a gauche,car je vous le dit tout de suite je ne les pas demander que a vous,car je les aussi demander a facebook puisque c’est eux les premier concerner.
si toute fois il n’existe pas de solution j’abbandonnerais le projet de windows live messenger avec facebook,mes je vous rassur je n’abbandonnerais pas windows live messenger 2012 bien sur.
donc si vous pouvier voir avec facebook si il n’existe pas de solution sa cerais super et je vous en remercirais,
en attendent comme j’ai du vous le dire dans un message préssédant,jutiliserais facebook messenger,mes sa cerais bien d’avoir qu’une seul application au lieux d’en avoir plusieur.
et donc encore une fois je c’est que je vais me répéter mes je vous en remerci d’avence.
Error: 8004882a. Whats the problem?
bonjour, pour cela il faut télécharger MessengerReviver pour résoudre le probléme
Hey, this might be a strange question but for some reason messenger seems to sign me out when I’m sending a message. It’s probably half the time, sometimes it’ll work, sometimes I’ll press enter to send what I’ve typed and it will just sign me out with no error and eventually automatically sign me back in. The message does not go through to who I’m talking to. Was just hoping you’d have some idea what I could do? It’s definitely not my internet connection, everything else is stable. Thanks 🙂
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