Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Restore and Recover Deleted Scenes In Windows Live Messenger 2009

Lol, i just found this shit and it was kinda stupid and funny but it works. I wanted to restore the messenger 2009 scenes. Read it....

I accidentally deleted few of the scenes in Messenger 2009. I tried to reinstall the Messenger but it didn't solve my problem. So I googled around and I found the solution. Guess what?????

To restore the scene in Messenger 2009, you have to delete all the scenes except the default scene (because it can't be deleted). Then shutdown the messenger and sign in again. Yup, that should solve your problem! No kidding....!

If you think this is joke, please read all the comments. Thank you...oh by the way please drop a comment too, to help others believe that this works.

56 comments:

Anonymous said...

I was skeptical about whether this would work but took the plunge and can safely say that it does, 100% - beats me what MS's logic behind it is!!

Unsarcastic Blogger said...

Told ya it would work... ;P

Anonymous said...

im gunna try, if it doesnt ill hate u

Anonymous said...

omg nvmd.. about the earlier blog
IT WORKS
THANKS SOO MUCH :D

Unsarcastic Blogger said...

Lol...:D it sure gonna work otherwise i wont put it on my blog :P

Anonymous said...

thanks to you i have all the scenes back :D (it really really really works!!)

Anonymous said...

OMG! I love you! Thanks!

Anonymous said...

Superb! Thank you so much!

Unsarcastic Blogger said...

No problem :P, glad i can help

Joyce Rachel Lee said...

Great!

I didn't go and silly-silly delete the scenes but hey, if I ever did that, I'd definitely try your suggestions here! Not bad!

Thanks!

Anonymous said...

Thank you! I was afraid this was a hoax, but it really worked. The scenes returned in a different order, but the one I so wanted to use (but accidentally deleted) came back just fine. Yay! :-)

Anonymous said...

ridiculous but true

am guessing it's a fortunate bug :|

Anonymous said...

It works!
Thanx so much!!!

Ekin said...

hmm..wen u say delete all the scene,do u mean all?and which one is the default?i accidently deleted this cherry blossom scene and i'm so lost on how to get it back.help..

Unsarcastic Blogger said...

yes i mean all of them except the one that cannot be deleted. just delete all and you'll see there will be only 1 scene left and cannot be deleted...that's the default one.....

Ekin said...

oh crap...it did work..hahaha...thank you very much..now i feel silly.lol

Anonymous said...

Fantastic tip, thanks so much!!!

Anonymous said...

At first I was a little wary of following the advice but did it anyway and it actually does work. Thanks :3

stacey said...

Wow. it really did work! I was doubtful at first and thought it was a silly joke, but it worked! LOL Thanks a million!

Anonymous said...

OMG
it worked
thankyouthankyouthankyou!!!

amy said...

OMG no fucking way!!!!!!!!! IT WORKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i cannot believe this!!! I JUST SAID TO MY MUM LOLS, I BEEN TRYING ALL DAY I UNINSTALLED SO MANY TIMES AND ITY WORKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! whoops caps on but it works!!!!!!!! i been trying for days!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thatnkyou so much!

Rillaith said...

It's WAY too easy to accidentally delete one, and I have to admit - this so shouldn't have worked, but it did! Thank you ;) Way to go MS with your naff usability!

Anonymous said...

:O scared me but trusted you and it works...YAY! thankyou x

Anonymous said...

Excellent thankyou, after sometime spent googling, i finally hit the right words to search for and found your blogg, excellent thankyou!

Unsarcastic Blogger said...

Thank you for dropping all your comments...oh i love this :P

John Anderton said...

Oh, and if anyone is wondering, you can find the scenes inside the Windows Live Messenger folder in a file called scenes.mct which is essentially a zip container with its extension renamed :)

Feel free to break it open and have a look at the scene files.
You could even add your own files to it with an appropriate modification of content.xml (which shouldn't be any more difficult than a simple copy paste).

Although I do have to say, I don't see any point in doing so since it is way easier to add jpgs/pngs/bmps directly :P

So this was just an fyi :)

Unsarcastic Blogger said...

OMG, thanks for sharing John...:)

Xyza Gene said...

help! not all the themes came back. but i checked the scenes.mct file, opened it with WinRAR, and all the original scenes are still there. i can't figure out what's wrong...is it the internet connection or my laptop??

Unsarcastic Blogger said...

did u delete all the scenes except the default one? all scenes that are bundled with the messenger will be there when u sign in again.

It's Me said...

Guys im not sure whether this solution still works coz a new update of msn is out. If the solution still works, please share it here.

Anonymous said...

yes it works with the latest update of windows live as well :D

Anonymous said...

Worked for me. Newest version of MSN on Vista. Thanks!

Anonymous said...

oh my goodness it does really work
thank you so much:)

Anonymous said...

Whoever found this out and shared this way to get the scenes back is a genius! Thanks very much, it works 100%.

Anonymous said...

Oh my goodness, I so didn't think that would work :o

Thank you so so much ! :D

Anonymous said...

ZOMG thank you thank you thank you

Anonymous said...

I was worried too, but I just did it and it worked. Thank You!

Anonymous said...

works! =]

Anonymous said...

wow. worked
i deleted one scene accidentally, and then i followed yr tip here... and it worked!
23 scenes are back in there now... but in a different order, but who cares bout that.
23 scenes, is that the default quantity??

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the suggestion. As of today, the fix still works. What an illogical way to retrieve deleted item!

Unsarcastic Blogger said...

Anonymous: Yup, i got 23 scenes here...

Anonymous: Thanks for giving me the latest info about the fix.

Anonymous said...

omg, thank you sooo much! this is so odd, but it worked lol.. so weird but whatever, if it fixes the problem I'm happy with it.. I too, accidentally deleted some, and wasn't sure how to get back! Thank you soo much again, you definitely saved my day!

toine512 said...

It works !
Microsoft != logic
Thanks ^^

Anonymous said...

It did work, thanx a lot..a hassle free to retrieve deleted scenes.

Cindy said...

I had my doubts at first, but I tried it and it worked~! WOW! Thanks so much! :)

Anonymous said...

AMAZING!! it worked even though I was sure this was a hoax...corroborated by a bunch of other "users"... but nope, I was wrong!

thanks guys!!

Unsarcastic Blogger said...

OMG, you seriously think this is a hoax? After all the comments? You gotta be kidding...

Again...this is not a hoax !!

Anonymous said...

Scared the crap out of me when I checked the scene's after I did this, but they all popped back up a second later. Got the one I wanted back though. =D Kudos!

Niladri Roy said...

Oh yes, it worked..THANKS A LOT !!!!

Unknown said...

Magic!! Thank you so much.

mm said...

i seroiusly thought it was a joke n have been looking everywhere.. trying different methods by uninstall, repair, etc. i read this post and was thinking to give it a try 'coz i don't like other scences anyways.. OMG, it MIRACLE.. it WORKS!!!

Thank you for the post n suggestion.. soooooo happy now :)

Anonymous said...

OMG IT WORKS !
THANK YOU SO MUCH
I'M SO HAPPY NOW
THANK YOU THANK YOU

Anonymous said...

Excellent, it REALLY works! You're a Genius!

Sabrina said...

It works! thank you

Anonymous said...

You are a genius! This really worked, I never doubted it!

Riemann SUM said...

IT WORKED IT WORKED OMG IT WORKED
Thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanks very much Mr Unsarcastic blogger ::))))