If you’ve read my previous post, you’d know that I’ve updated to the latest version of WLM 9 (14.0.8050.1202). Then I began to notice that certain things weren’t working as they should be. For instance, tabbed chats stopped functioning. If I was chatting to more than one contact, the chat windows kept piling up on top of one another, making it impossible for me to view the covered windows. Tried dragging the top window aside to view the obscured windows, but no luck. All the other windows followed!

Another “bug” was that there was no flashing of a continuing chat in the taskbar area. Yes, I could still hear a sound when a contact sent me a chat message, but I missed that flashing notification (we’re creatures of habit, aren’t we? Or maybe I am).

I was just about to curse, when I remembered that I’ve been using Messenger Plus! Live, a third-party plug-in for WLM. Now, Plus! is a very good plug-in (thank you, Patchou), it’s free, and it works. Don’t install the sponsor program though, which is adware. However, I figured that Plus! was not 100% compatible with this latest version of WLM, so I disabled some of its settings (it has a tabbed chat section) and surprise, surprise, my chat windows no longer piled up on top of one another! And the flashing notification worked again! I’m sure Patchou (the author of Plus!) will come up with a fix for this latest version of WLM soon.

So if you’re experiencing trouble with this latest version of WLM, my advice would be to disable any third-party plug-ins you might have currently installed in your system. Then see what happens. Have fun!

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