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Emoticons stopped working for me in MSN Messenger … but my friends see them just fine. Why?
[/al_question]I’d simply check the emoticon option: Tools, Options, Messages tab, and make sure the emoticons options are checked.
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u could try reinslalling it
but checking that the enable emocons button is selected seems the best course of action
i used to be able to use cutom emoticons on my comp and now theyve stopped
i try to add one and it just says unvalid picture but my friends can use tenm
what can i do to get it back to normal??
i did what you said buy checking the box on tools and options but it still wont work my friends see my emotions but i dont!
Guys, I’ve found the solution…
I had the same problem and now its fixed!!
Ok here goes…
You can turn emoticons on and off like this (Remember, this only affects YOUR chatbox. whether or not your buddies can see emoticons depends on their own personal settings)
1) launch Messenger
2) click Tools
3) Click options, then messages
4) Then check the box show emoticons and custon emoticons
5) click apply and then OK
wooh that’s it….
i think if you have an older version then
go onto this site : http://www.virtualafghans.com/services/tech_tips/tip3.asp
good luck!
ravi
i have just taken ur advuce n its worked thanks bud !! :D
ur advice works!
but i’m wondering, y did that option got unchecked? i remb previously it was being checked. msn did an auto uncheck? hmmm
i can’t see “some” of friends emoticons or display pics, but am able to others…my emoticons options are on. what is your suggestion?
Did you install something from Smiley Central? A friend did and now none of her custom emoticons work (come out as blank) only the default ones. I wouldn’t touch S Central with yours, mate!
hey, just wanted to say thanks a ton for that, i have been wondering for months why my emotions haven’t been showing… so cheers buddy, and thanks a ton
wooooooooo luv u it wrks
thanx soooooooooo much xxxxxxx
ohhh man I really have to thank you.. I was really worried… people like you shouldn’t die…
OMG THANK U THANK U THANK U..I WAS GETTING SOO MAD AND UR THING WORKED THANKS SOO MUCH IM SOO HAPPY :D!!!!!
Hi. I have checked the emotions box and everything on my msn but I still can’t see the emotions. Can you help?
Just do what that person said before… go to tools, options, then messages tabs…. change it.. press apply then ok.. then sign off of msn andd sign back in… Hope i helped!
yup, i had same thing and menu option fixed it. must be a bug that is shutting everyone’s off…
Great help this iste. Twice Ive had problems and found the answer here.
Many Many Thanks
Anne
thanks, this info has been great helpp :)
thanx man, my emoticons r showing now : Tools, Options, Messages tab, and make sure the emoticons options are checked :)
Like the person above that said go to “personal settings” on msn and then go to “message” and then click “show emoticons”.
thanks guys :D. all sorted.
cheers for the instructions, mine havent been working for ages! thanks for the help x
i checked the box and its still not working, i think it started after i downloaded a service pack or something for word?
still doesnt work for me?i see em in my mesasge box..but when i press enter, i just see the :) or w/e
thanks!! :D it worked
I am on a Mac and my version of MSN Messenger no longer displays custom emoticons. I just don’t get it. I already upgraded to the most recent version so I have no clue as to why it suddenly stopped working. Maybe a bug in the Mac version? Anyone with a possible solution, your comments will be most appreciated!
Sidenote: I already have the show custom emoticons thing checked and what not so that is NOT the culprit. Please help!
WOOOOOOOOO THA WORKIN NOW =DD TAR XX
haha i feel like such and idiot all it was, was one click of a button thanks man!
I’ve also been without my emoticons working my end for about three months. Just followed the directions above and checked the ‘show emoticons’ box, but still no workie. :(
OK, I restarted my computer and Hooray, my emoticons are all working again – I am SO happy, thank you very much for the help.
I followed the directions and nothing. I redownloaded it and yet still, nothing. It used to work fine then one day it just stopped showing emoticons.. they apear when im selecting them but once i press enter they dont appear to me, but they do to my freinds.
I want just the opposite: to STOP showing custom emoticons. My friends just love them to the point of making their messages illegible. Unchecking the “Show custom emoticons” box not only does nothing, but if I return to the options windows later it is checked again.
it works..thx..
LEGEND! THANKYOU SO MUCH! i LIVE for emotions lol ;) chow peoples
OMG it worked im so glad i came here!!!!!!!!!!!!
cuz i was sending random emoticons without even knowing…
Hey…thanx a lot 4 this tip…it really worked!!!!THANX SOOOO MUCH!!!!!!
i feel so dumb. THANK YOU SOO MUCH. ive been seeeing no emoticons for 2 months.
and now its like… amazing thank you
thank you leo. =D this was VERY helpful XD
My emotions are not working,When i use them its just the Leterrs.. Example (L) it will just be like that
thanks im feeling like a dumb thing now woo ! x
i checked that box but nothing worked why?
wow…you have no idea how much your tip helped me!!!!
i have been chating on my MSN without Emoticons for over six months!
thanks alot.
omg thnx dude, woot they work now :P
yay!! love them ha ha
I checked the box hit apply then ok..and they still don’t work! ARG whats wrong?!?!?
Oh nvm! Just had to log out! YAY it works now THANK YOU!
thanks for the tip… the thing i dont get is that ive been using the newset version of messenger since it came out, and all of a sudden the emoticons stopped working, how does it untick itself?
feeling dumb too. and got it to work.
but it didn’t work in the current opened windows – I had to restart the conversation and then it worked.
I have no idea how this box became unchecked though… (who knows).
thank u soooo mch…been feelin depressed coz dose sweeties wudnt shw up !! thanx soooo mch!!{G}
My Msn Has Turned Spanish And My Emocions Arnt Working Either How Do I get It Back
DUDE U OWN MAN CANT BELIEVE HOW SIMPLE IT WAS!!!!
i witnessed how the box got unchecked….but still dont know how….
I did system restore, reinstalled msn and planty of other crap to get it to work, thx a lot man u really saved my comp =D
wow, thanxs alot, i was wondering why my emoticons wouldnt work anymore!
wow yes worked for me too, i wonder how it became unticked!
It getting relly annoying now , when i type in a emotion is just comes up with the bracket and letter but then all my friends can see them!
please get back to me
i cant see my emoticons but my friends can all i see is the letter and the braket help!!!!!!!
Well I thought it was something like that, but I didn’t know how to get to that menu :)
Feel a bit dumb now :$
One of my friends has done this several times ad his still raent working, any advice?
thank you so much!!! having no emotions was driving me crazy. :P
hmm.. i have checked my emoticon box but i still cant see my costume emoticons.But my friends on the other end can see them just fine.Any solution to this?
TYVM man,, was gettin bored of the brackets and no’s or letters lol
NYX, chek the box next to the emoticon box, the one that says : custom emoticons
Thanks man, worked. I’ve been wondering why my emoticons haven’t been showing up for ages. People keep using them and their alternate text was appearing so I was getting a bit confused lol.
tried this, but it still aint working, its really doing my skull in.
okay, i tried that to to the options thing.
and the emoticons still arent showing up.
okay dis happened to me heres how u do it……
1.go on tools
2.click options
3.den go on message
4.make sure dat show emotion and custom emotion is ticked
5.press apply
6.den sign of den bk in
no, guys, that doesn’t work! the problem isn’t in options… you can’t see your emoticon if you don’t write some text behind it… sometimes you have to write more text, sometimes less… don’t know why, but for now it’s the only way to see them… some bug, i think… try that, it works for me…
OMFG THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
iv’e been sitting on msn for days while i cant see any of my emoticons it was driving me Crazy
thank god for this otherwise id be going Insane by now
I tryed what you told me to do but it still won’t work, why??
it wrks if u do the options then tools then messages and c lick show emoticons then sign out then back in =)
Okay I’m havng the same problem as Jan and meninavale and its still not working. It can’t have anything to do with the tools>options>messages because my boxes are checked, and still don’t work after signing out and back in… any other suggestions? thanks =)
My friend had same prob as most of u, non of those advices worked that was in here, so she tried to uninstall msn, when she was doin that, msn gave her 2 options, uninstall or repair, and apparently that repair worked. So if none of those advices b4 this helps, try this ^^
ohh god it still dont work i do all the stuff and the emoticon still dont show up..this is driving me crazy should i download another one?
go on options then go on the tab that says masseges
and click show emotions
then look down, and click the apply button
remeber if u dont click it.,, it wont work
then click ok
THANK YOU!
i wish i would have looked at this before i redownloaded MSN twice… i was so used to it the last time, its so weird now. :(
To simplify your problem try this:
in a conversation window look at the top right and click
“show menu”
scroll down to “tools”
then click on “show emoticons” and it WILL work!!
yes insist to show emoticon in tools messages.
check, unchek apply close by clicking ok
go in tools menu
and check the menu show emoticon
this work
tx
when you have checked the emoticons have been ticked in the messages, click apply or ok, then sign out and start again
go on the tab that says tools and press show emotions if it haven’t got a tick next to it
That what worked for me
Kiara suggest worked for me…thanks
THANKYOU to “rotter” my life is now complete with a whole range of pretty emoticons!! the 1st way didnt work but when you are on the convo and click show emoticons it does! so thankyou again! over and out
i tried going into tools and the messenger tab and ticking the box that says “show emoticons” but it didn’t work. any ideas?
The clicking onthe show emoticons thing in a conversation worked 4 me the other solutions didnt so i recomned that..btw thanks 4 de help guyz
i don’t have a ‘show emoticons’ button ?
Well the same thing happened to me!
All I did was on one of the conversations your on, Go To the top Left and Click Tools and click show emotions ;)
But this did help me!
Yeh thanks it works!!!!! Thakyou loads!! I was completely stuck it saved me from gettin in an expert to my house which would have cost loads coz I can’t live without my emoticons! It changed automatically wen I change computer monitors for some reason! Thanks Again! Tim
THANK YOU! So simple and yet I was ready to download a newer version. Problem solved, thanks!
You’ve got to go into the tools then options or that scroll down list that you get when you click on your name. It wont work straight away after you tick the boxed you have to sign out and then back in, It worked for me!
That did not help at all. i do not have an options button. :( never mind.
YESS THANKS SO MUCH I WAS LIVING SO LONG W/O EMOTICONS WORKED FOR ME .. n for those that it didnt work you have to restart your msn befre it works.. thnkx lots
hi my emoticons are not working and there not showing on my friends either. when i go into tools and then emoticons i do not get the show emoticons option.
wow,thank you so very much. the lack of emoticons was immensely annoying, now all is solved!!! thank you!!
easy route= go on convo
1-show menu (with new version of msn-icon on far right or top toolbar)
2-tools
3-show emoticons
click on it and all of your emoticons are back!!
Heloo Iv lost my emotions too buh im using the new msn and there isnt a tools :S !! HELPPP
It didn’t work for me in either ways. When i talk to my cousin they dont work but when i talk to other people it works. Why dosn’t it work with some convo’s?
it was really goood at first i didnt think it would work but then i tried pressin on tools and show emoticons an magically it showed!!!! thanks sooo much leo i hope you make some more of these useful comments to do with helpin others!!!!
omg! thank you soooooo much! ive been trying to work this out for AGESSS! and thanks so much ‘Jacky D’ for explaining where it is :L i couldnt find it at all. thanks SOOOOO much for helping meeee :-)
thankyou so much 4 your help. i was getting really annoyed because my emotions were not showing up, but now ive fixed them by
(1-show menu
(2-tools
(3-show emoticons
and now they appear. i was just about to download a new MSN, but now i dont need too. thankyou. :D
Heyy :)
Thank you so much laura thu one thats posted the first comment on this pagee :)
My emoticons were not working and i done what you said with the options menu and then i signed out and it workedd :) xx
it still dosent work 4 mee :@ getting stressed heree
Thanks Leo,my emoticons stopped working all of a sudden and my msn messenger was so boring looking without emoticons,now its back to normal,i wouldn’t have thought about that.
Hello Leo: I’ve just installed Windows Live Messenger and was getting v. excited at the prospect of winking! Sadly while the installation conpleted successfullythe Wink icon is greyed out notwithstanding that I’ve downloaded a couple from the Messenger home page. Any ideas? Thanks
Wow! Thanks! It totally worked for me. ^^ I am so happy.
it didnt work for me at first, but then I did it on the MAIN msn menu, i then signed out and back in and it worked!
Hey, really useful!
But I don’t know why mine got unchecked…
It is back when I just re-check it!
this is very wel for those who dont knoww about tools and such
but, my box for showing emotes is clicked
and my msn does not save any emotes
a all..
Wheres the tools button ?
YAY! thankyou, so much. Ive been getting really anoyed with them not working :)
Wow, that’s fantastic…it worked first time. I can’t believe I didn’t think of typing the problem into google sooner!! Thank you
WHERE IS THE TOOLS MENU OR THE MAIN MENU ON THE NEW MSN ! I TRIED THE CHECK THINGY BUT IT DIDN’T WORK !
OMG thankyou so much, i woulda never thought of that.
wow great your eays worked. . my mssensger suddenly stopped working. i found your forum. and it worked. great keep it up.
am
thank you very much indeed its working on me i wouldnt think something like that but thx google and the one who creat google god bless him thank you for the help
ive clicked the all the boxers and its still not showing them ??
Thank you, worked great, still not sure how the box became unchecked to begin with but it works again now :)… Thanks again!
Toon…you have to sign out and sign back in
make sure u checked them and apply them and not click OK first…
WOHOOOW. thanks alot guys it worked for me perfectly ,, thats easy..
by the way i would like to remind people, they have to sign out then sign in again for the task to function..
thanks to interenet, thanks to google, thanks to who answered this question
t.c
JK
OMG ty!! I uninstalled and installed several times…..so easy!! thanx!! =D =D
I have done the thing at the top, and they still don’t work, please help ?!
Omg!! Didn’t think it was so easy. I’ve uninstalled it several times with much frustration. Thank you!
woooooo!!! thank you! make sure you restart it!
i have windows live messenger and i cant see peoples emotions when they send them 2 me or when i send them. i went to tools and then emotions as said u said ans there was nothing to click. what do u recommend i do. i would be so gratefull :)
my emoticons never worked they did at first buh now they dnt
my msn has been fine for years and now the emotions are not working i have tryed the suggested things but they arnt working is there any other way??
Just Press alt and then T and then E
This should help some people. I never noticed the option to show/hide emoticons because it was in my home language,which changed the words “Show Emoticons” to “Show Expressive Icons” and I didnt realize it was that,maybe that can help some of you.
i have tried everything and it still isnt working :/
thanks for the help it was usefull the (alt,T,E) it worked for me :) :D
Yehhh Alt T E works >.
(alt,T,E) it worked for me!!!!!
I tried setting the Show Emoticons and Show Custom Emoticons; I tried Alt +T, E; I have even reinstalled Live Messenger and still my custom emoticons don’t work. Any other ideas? (Running Windows 7, BTW)
thanks it worked. YAY!
my msn plus icons are not showing when i send then in ah conversation but my friends see it fine ….what to do to get it bk
alt, t, e didnt work. any other ideas?
my msn plus icons are not showing when i send then in ah conversation but my friends see it fine ….what to do to get it bk
go on a conversation and do alt t then e and keep doin it !! it works :)
press alt, then a bar will show at the top of the page – click tool then click on show emoticons.
If that doesn’t work for you, update your flash player.. that actually worked for me!
i found the the problem go here
1- tools from the same page between u and ur friend not from the list of contacts
2-mark on show emticons from the same list.
just that good luck all
Thank u very much Louise it worked lol finally!!!@#
Nice work Leo. I can see my emocons again, thank you all.
i tried this ! but i keep ticking the show emoticons box and it keeps undoing it in a very weird way ! i’m gonna try updating flash player
i tried what you suggested but my emoticons still arent showing up on my screen =/ , is there anything else i can do ?
well my problem is this===>>>i had the version of msn the one before the messenger essentials..i didnts like it and i installed the last one i had.i kept my emoticons and put them in the file but since then i cant use them is like they dont appear any more.msn doesnt recognise them any more.but even when i had again than version i never had that problem.i took a look at the box that says show emoticons and it is checked.so what i have to do know??
I had this issue for a couple of months, where MSN Messenger would uncheck emoticons after I went in and checked the box. I had installed Messenger again, and my computer was fully updated, including Flash. What finally worked was checking show emoticons, uncheck show custom emoticons, and it finally worked.
my msn messenger will not check in, hit apply, then ok ,I , go back in and it is unchecked again, this keeps on going on, though others can see my emotions and copy them I see none of mine or theirs
Frances: I had your problem too and I fixed by:
1. go into settings , uncheck ‘Show Message Timestamps’, click ok.
2. go into settings again, check ‘Show Message Timestamps’ and ‘Enable emoticons’ etc.
3. click ok.
I faced this problem and I solved it in this way I went to tools then options then messages now the problem was that every time I check show emoticon and press apply then okay I back to messages and find the mark disappeared so the solution was in this way I removed all marks in messages and only pressed mark on show emoticon then I pressed apply then okay so
my emoticon worked correctly then I back to messages and marked the other choices then apply and okay I hope my answer was useful
how can i fix this problem?
What Pak wrote solved the problem for me.
the show emotions tab will not stay ticked?? help?