Members profile patch
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timothy says:
  If you are living in the UK, you probably found out that the MSN Members profile site has been disabled. To re-enable the profile pages in MSN Messenger we have written a patch.

Point your mouse over here, and click.

Note: This patch only works on version 6.1.0211
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BE SURE TO READ THE BELOW POST BEFORE INSTALLING THIS PATCH!!!!!!!!

(Thanks Cookie)

To install this you must close every instance of msn messenger completely.

This patch contains a patched english msgslang.dll (6.1.0211) and will replace your old one with it, nothing more.

But, be carefull with this "patch"...
It's only for MSN Messenger v6.1.0211 but since it will replace your msgslang.dll, every previous patch you did on this file will be cleared (for example if you changed away to idle).

The only thing that this new msgslang.dll replaces in your original msgslang.dll is this:
String Table > 35 > 1033 > 547, "%1!hs!/5meen_us/106?Version=6.1&GeoID=%2!08x!&Plcid=%3!hs!&CLCID=%4!04x!&Country=%5!hs!&BrandID=%6&passport=%7"

to this:
String Table > 35 > 1033 > 547, "members.msn.com/%7&pgmarket=en-us"

So you can easly change this yourself with ResHack in any other MSN Messenger version, without using this patch if you like.

What exactly happened to the Eurpean Profiles? I heard they took them away....but why?

As far as I know only the UK ones don't work...

same w/ me

works like a charm

Does anyone know when or if the UK public profiles will be back up?

I'd prefer not to change my MSN language file to US if it will back online soon.

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Originally posted by Jordan2004
Does anyone know when or if the UK public profiles will be back up?

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Originally posted by Jordan2004
I'd prefer not to change my MSN language file to US if it will back online soon.

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there is a reason. 

Something to do with Child protection and the UK government requested profiles be made more secure as people were releasing personal data i.e. name and address and where thus more open to attacks from paedophiles

So hopefully they will be back with added secuity. And if MS have sense the other countys will have theirs changed as well

@ Jordan2004 the file is english, as it is my msgslang.dll file

They say that they are making them more secure etc, but to be honest its just going to cripple it.

The only way to make them more secure is to make them accept less fields. The only way to make them secure is to close them.

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Originally posted by reisyboy
So hopefully they will be back with added secuity.  And if MS have sense the other countys will have theirs changed as well

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When 6.2 comes out will it default back to the UK page?

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Originally posted by GiantSpider
When 6.2 comes out will it default back to the UK page?

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Rite. So the patch would need an update

The patch will be updated as soon as we get our hands on 6.2 (shouldnt be too long)

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Originally posted by GiantSpider
Rite. So the patch would need an update

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In case u haven't noticed in the last 7 months i've been here i am lazy.

I've applied the patch, and noticed the links to the MSN members, via the search link still directs you to the UK site.

Just a minor porblem, but what part of the msgslang.dll needs changing for this?

Thanks

Its annoying we (The people of the UK) keep losing more and more features of MSN and the internet because of 'Child Security' . What part of the internet ever claimed it was for children in the first place? Annoying...
I mean, now, if someone adds you that you don't know, you can't check their profile to find out about them, you have to start asking, and you can't tell me that is supposed to be more secure and 'child friendly' than being able to look at their profile and know if its someone you know.
Another thing, is that why is it the UK who gets these 'tests'? I'm sure the US has just as many, if not more, of 'those' types of people, but is it just because we found out how to find them out that we get these punishments? *sighs* I know this is kinda the wrong place to moan about this, just first its MSN chat gone, and now its profiles too, and soon it'll be MSN for people from the UK as a whole. I think rather than making the internet  experience more secure and safer, they should consider making getting onto the internet more secure rather than stripping away the things that give it such a large user base.

Okay, moaning ended now. 

btw is there a patch for UK ppl to go on MSN chatrooms

You can read some profiles but only members of msn groups. But, if they dont belong to a group, then thtz it...
My profile had my pic and everything but with an msn groups look.
I am from the UK btw.
(although this wont help you if you want to look from messenger)

Is there a patch for 6.2

6.2.0133 Profile Patch

This wil re enable uk profiles on messenger 6.2.0133 ONLY. I just though i would knock this together till Timothy and Zero1 release an update. Make Sure You Close MSN before you install this.

Download Here

If Microsoft did decide to close the profiles page they should have given us a decent page except a bit of Times New Roman saying "Closed".

I am not gonna patch it as there is all this stuff about patches and i don't really look... but we were told about the closure of MSN Chat Rooms by:

"Microsoft have decided to close their MSN chat rooms to reduce the number of incidents related to them... Hopefully more sites will do the same"

I thought it was worldwide, not just the UK

microsoft just doesnt like the uk for some reason where its little hamster it experments on.