How to Recover MSN Chat
MSN Messenger, also known as Windows Live Messenger, is an Internet messaging chat client and service provided by Microsoft. Millions of MSN customers use the free service to exchange instant messages with other users. Windows Live provides its own software, which is called a chat client. When you install this software, it automatically sets itself to log all your chat conversations and save them onto your computer. Should you ever need to recover an MSN chat, it's quite a simple process.
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Instructions
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Open the Windows Live software on your computer by double-clicking the icon on your desktop. If you don't have a Windows Live desktop icon, launch the program by clicking the "Start" button, selecting "All Programs" and clicking on Windows Live from there.
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Log into your MSN or Windows Live account in the software. Ensure that this is the account with which you had the chat you're trying to recover. You can only recover chats from your own account once you are logged in.
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Click "File" in the main menu of the software.
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From the drop-down menu that opens, choose "View Message History." This will launch a small window with a chronological list of all your past chats.
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Select the contact with whom you had the chat you'd like to recover. Click on the contact's name and click "OK." This will launch another pop-up window, displaying all the conversations with that contact that are logged onto your computer, listed by date and time.
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Double-click the chat you'd like to recover. The chat will open as a text file, which you can save onto your hard drive for later viewing in your regular word-processor software or web browser.
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Tips & Warnings
Once you've recovered the chat, you can print it by pressing the "CTRL" button and the "P" key simultaneously, then following the simple on-screen directions.
