Microsoft has built the latest version of Windows Live Messenger fixing many issues including the most anticipated fixation of a bug where when you sign-in to messenger on your PocketPC, all contacts from msn server gets inserted into your Pocket Outlook. Along with it, many other bugs have been fixed and the performance has been improved a bit too. Unfortunately they bundle the Messenger only with newer Windows Mobile devices leaving their existing customers unhappy. As always, our kings at xda-dev had ripped it off for existing devices. If you would like to download it or learn troubleshooting tips for upgrade, read on..

You can download the latest version 10.6.33.0600 from here.

Common problems and Troubleshooting

There have been lots of people who have had trouble with installing and running Windows Live and Live Messeger. There are few things you can do to avoid these problems.

1) DO NOT INSTALL TO THE STORAGE CARD. Some of the file references have been hardcoded into the DLL's. Hence as far as I know, installing Windows Live to your Storage Card will not work. It will install but nothing will happen when you run the program.

2) Make sure you uninstall any previous version of Windows Live that you may have. I would suggest going into Safe Mode to uninstall it to make sure that all files and registry entries are completely removed. You can get access to Safe Mode if you have monocube's Safemode program or SPB Pocket Plus. If you can't do this, then atleast sign out, disable email sync and then soft reset your device before attempting to uninstall.

3) If you have just hard reseted your device, then please make sure that one of the first programs you install is Windows Live. Many users have complained that Live Messenger doesn't work after installing some programs and alternate Language support.

4) The Windows Live versions posted here, give you the option to either copy your MSN contacts to the phonebook or not. If you chose to copy your MSN contacts to the phonebook during installation and then later decided you wanted to remove them from the phonebook... whatever you do, DO NOT DELETE YOUR MSN CONTACTS FROM THE PHONEBOOK. This will result in you loosing all your MSN contacts completely (from the MSN Server). The safe way to remove MSN contacts from your phonebook it to go to Windows Live -> Menu -> Options -> Sync Options -> Uncheck "Store Windows Live Contacts in your mobile phone's Contact List"

5) As a rule of thumb, it's always a good idea to backup your MSN contacts on your desktop. The desktop version of Windows Live Messenger or MSN Messenger has an option to export all your contacts to a file on your computer. There have been a few users that have complained about Live Contacts getting inadvertently copied to the Phonebook despite unchecking the option to sync MSN contacts to the phonebook. This is usually the result of an error during installation or what Microsoft calls a gremlin in the depths of the code. In such cases having a file with all your contacts makes it easy for you recover from an accidental deletion of all your contacts.

Source: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=334621
Special Thanks to xda user duttythroy
 

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