Have lots of custom emoticons on your MSN/WLM Messenger and wondering how to backup messenger? When you reformat or reinstall your Windows, you will lose all your custom emoticons and display pictures. If you’ve made a backup of every single emoticon files, then you can reimport them back to your new messenger 1 by 1. A very painful process.
A nice free program called “Windows Live Messenger Emoticon Migration Tool” (WLM Migrate) can make this pain to go away and backup Windows Live Messenger easily.
You can backup messenger emoticons and restore them easily with a few clicks!
Windows Live Messenger Emoticon Migration Tool is a single executable file (you don’t need to install anything). You simply click on it to run the same program to backup and to restore your emoticons.
You simply point to a folder where you want to store your custom emoticons. Your Windows Live UserID is also required (so that the program knows where to grab the files from). Your custom emoticons are stored “secretly” on the hard drive and this tool will basically copy the necessary files to a different location.
To backup messenger emoticons, simply do the same as above, but click on the Restore button instead. It’ll even maintain the same shortcut for every custom emoticon.
This is the simplest tool out there that I can find to backup windows live messenger emoticons easily and best of all, it’s free 
You can download the tool here.
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Thanks for the tip.
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ahhh Michael why would you do a thing like this?? MSN emoticons are straight from the pit of hell
Some of my friends have used them so much that their writing is barely comprehensible!
Haha but it’s so fun chatting with the cute emoticons
Just tell your friend not to overdo it!
Oh, good one. You should have share this earlier! so I can save myself and time from asking for emoticons from my friends each time I format my comp.
Hehe..
It’s been around on my Draft section but I haven’t got a chance to finish the post
Now you can expand your collection without being afraid of losing them hehe
Hmm will keep this in mind, but I dont see myself having to really use it. I guess i just dont use IM that much.
thank you so much, I hate to reinstall all my emoticons everytime
oh great!!! I really need this
thank you so much, I always missed all my stuff
Yeah I faced this problem actually. Thanks for sharing this mike!
great post, thanks for share the info
Muchas gracias, sorry no english
Custom emoticons are good.but they make me irritate some time. so i don’t use them in my messenger.