TUTORIAL: Enable an Extra Tab Add-ins in Windows Live Messenger Options Dialog Box

[Vishal Gupta]

Guys

Did you know there is an extra hidden tab in Windows Live Messenger Option dialog box? Its called "Add-ins". I don’t know why its hidden by default? Today I found a registry hack to enable it in WLM while playing with WLM’s EXE file in Resource Hacker. :p

Before:

http://img451.imageshack.us/img451/2475/beforegy5.png (http://www.askvg.com/how-to-enable-an-extra-tab-add-ins-in-windows-live-messenger-options-dialog-box/)

After:

http://img480.imageshack.us/img480/5417/afterrv0.png (http://www.askvg.com/how-to-enable-an-extra-tab-add-ins-in-windows-live-messenger-options-dialog-box/)

So here is step-by-step tutorial to enable it:

1. Open regedit and goto:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MSNMessenger 2. In right-side pane, create a new DWORD value and give it name “AddInFeatureEnabled” and set its value to 1

3. Thats it. Now open Windows Live Messenger and goto “Tools -> Options” and you’ll see a new tab "Add-ins" at last. ;)

Above information can also be read here (http://www.askvg.com/how-to-enable-an-extra-tab-add-ins-in-windows-live-messenger-options-dialog-box/).

[Gigacore]

Wow.. thanks vista!! http://gigasmilies.googlepages.com/1.gif

[casanova]

Wow, nice find (hack).

[Vishal Gupta]

Thanks guys. :)

[redhat]

Hey, I enabled d Add-In tab, but the feaures under it are disabled...
How do I enable them?