Free Instant Messenger Emoticons

FREE emoticons for Windows Live Messenger and more

Free Instant Messenger Emoticons

Free emoticons, backgrounds, winks, and display pictures for your favorite Instant Messaging clients starting with Windows Live Messenger which is my favorite. There are, of course, many sites on the Internet that offer emoticons. Just make sure you have firewall and anti-virus programs installed and that you check out the websites and the download content carefully. I tend to stay away from sites that bring up lots of popup windows and try to get you to install various toolbars and/or change your home page.

Windows Live Messenger

The French do WLM emoticons best. Visit this French MSN site http://www.ilove messenger.fr/toppacks.aspx to see and download my favorite of favorites. You'll notice a bit of a language challenge if you don't speak French, but if you've downloaded much from the Internet, you'll be able to muddle your way through the process. I especially like the Emoticones 3D and the Emoticones Love 3D, but there are at least 16 packs to choose from: aliens, animals, baby animals, super heroes, etc. No registration required.

Another foreign language site (Dutch?) with fun Christmas Emoticons, background and display picture: http://www.emoticons-livemessenger.com/pages/msnnlkerst/. No registration required.

Kiwee--Windows Live Messenger Emoticons. You can get to Kiwee through my link or directly from WLM by choosing "more". Kiwee's emoticons, winks, display pictures, and backgrounds download directly into WLM ready to use, and they have material to celebrate just about every holiday, event or emotion you can think of. This site does require registration and sign in for downloads but I have yet to receive any spam as a result of my registration and you can choose your preferences. Another interesting fact about this site, lol, it is available in several languages and is quirky. Sometimes it switches languages on you mid search. If this happens, just go to the top and choose the "switch language" link.

MSN Ifadeleri: No registration required. Oodles of adorable emoticons. The only drawback to the emoticons on this site is that, since they are able to be used for multiple applications, you must save each one individually to your computer and then use WLM's "create emoticon" feature (Tools>Emoticons>Create) rather than download directly into WLM. The emoticons above are from this website.

Blog Catalog MSN Emoticons: A wide selection of regular, 3D, and animated emoticons in all shapes and sizes and moods. No registration required but these also must be saved and created as emoticons individually. The Blog Catalog site provides instructions when you click on the emoticon. One caution: Be careful that you are clicking on Blog Catalog's individual emoticons and not the ads unless you want lots of popups.

Windows Live Freebies: Emoticons, winks, backgrounds and music/sounds for WLM. Some cute, some not so cute.