ÿþThese instructions will give you big emoticons in Windows Live Messenger, like 

on http://random.menthix.net/files/bigemo/big-emoticons-in-live-messenger.png. 

In my screenshot I use Messenger Plus! with a skin, but this works without any 

add-on. Tested on Windows Live Messenger Version 2009 (Build 14.0.8064.206) 

only.



Instructions:

* Open this text file in an Unicode compatible editor, Notepad will do. 

  This step is important, otherwise it will not work.

* Copy any of the lines below to your Messenger display name, or personal 

  message.

* That's all ;). 

  Your contacts should see the big emoticons in their contact list. If you 

  copied it to your personal message you should see it in big format on the top 

  of your own contact list too, if it's in your display name it won't show big 

  on your own side.



NOTE: While this may be funny, you will annoy people on your list quick. I'm 

not responsible for your friends removing/blocking you because you annoyed them 

by making their list cluttered with huge emoticons. I hope Microsoft will 

respond to this and release a new version which gets rid of this bug/feature.



Copy any of these lines (or create your own):

á :o N

á :o N<-- Big | Small --> :D

·#[c=0][a=0]á :P  N [/a][/c] Using MsgPlus! to hide the control characters

http://example.com/  á (H) N

á :o:p:D:(:):s N



For those wondering how this works:

The characters á  (looking either like a square or something like <-> depending 

on what you are viewing it with) and  N (looking like a dot) are not normal 

characters like the ones you type. These are special characters which only can 

be typed with key combinations or just simply by copy/pasting them (like you 

do in this case). These characters can be used to give instructions to 

software, in this case it makes emoticons bigger. Whether this is a bug, or MS 

intentionally added this at some point without telling anyone nobody knows. But 

it is annoying for sure, so let's hope Microsoft treats it as a bug and removes 

it soon.

I don't take any credit for discovering this, multiple people on my contact 

list already had it when I first tried by just copying their personal messages.