Sync your Windows Live Messenger Emoticons, Winks, Backgrounds, etc with Live Mesh

LiveSide - News blog - Live Mesh tutorial: Synchronizing Windows Live Messenger content

“After the first tutorial about synching browser favorites across devices using Live Mesh, we thought it was time to step it up a gear and take on Windows Live Messenger. Its always been notoriously difficult to transfer emoticons between PCs, let alone backup the winks, DDPs and dynamic backgrounds you may have. This method will sync all of the above, and if you want to, synchronize your file transfers and chat history too.

Here’s some points before we start the synching. Please read, as they are important!

1. This has only been tested on Windows Live Messenger 8.1 and above, as prior to this content was stored in a different way. It doesn’t matter if you are using different versions on different devices. The folders we will be synchronizing are:

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This is one of those you should read in full prior to executing it tutorials…

Again, I’m looking forward to PDC to hear more about Mesh. These tips are just the tip of the ice burg. When we can bake Mesh into our app’s I think you’ll start to see some really cool stuff.