![]() Skype Switcher Tip: Use Compact View If you’re currently using Windows Live Messenger and are not too thrilled about the pending forced switch to Skype, you’re not alone. But there are a few things you can do to make Skype a more palatable—and Windows Live Messenger- like—experience. And the first thing you should do is enable Skype’s Compact View. Many, myself included, assumed this meant simply that it would stop updating WLM and allow people to keep using it for many months to come. Whether you plan to upgrade your Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7 machine to Windows 8 or buy a new PC with Windows 8 pre-installed, you can use Windows Easy Transfer. Just as I hoped, it found my 6 duplicate contacts (that only have the same name) and did not delete them. You can continue on to view and remove duplicate. Screenshot of Windows Vista Ultimate, showing its desktop, taskbar, Start menu, Windows Sidebar, Welcome Center and glass effects of Windows Aero. ![]() Welcome to CrystalXP.net Welcome to the Great Ice-Barrier! Our Community is here to help you to uncover the world of Graphics and Windows customization. If you’re running Vista and using Windows Mail to manage your email, you might want to back things up before upgrading to Windows 7. Today we take a look at how to. But there are a. But this week, we discovered that Microsoft will kill Messenger on March 1. WLM application being uninstalled automatically when you install Skype, and the back- end Messenger service being retired globally at that time. Note that simply installing the latest Skype version now will in fact uninstall WLM. So be careful. There are no tabs or separate windows for individual IM (or video/audio chat) conversations, it’s just a single window. By default, WLM provides a main window which lists your contacts. But it provides a separate conversation window, with tabs for each conversation, helping you keep track of what’s happening. To enable it, select View and then Compact View. When you do, Skype redisplays with two windows, one for the contact list—just like WLM—and one for that Skype Home display, which you can simply close. Which in many ways is actually even better than the tabbed conversation window in WLM. I can’t stand the default Skype notification sounds, for example, and I find the font size in IM to be far too small.
![]() ![]() But I’m curious if anyone else has any suggestions about how you can configure Skype to be a better all- in- one communications application. Maybe this transition doesn’t have to be so horrible after all. ![]() ![]()
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