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My nickname's automatically changing by Skillumination on 09-22-2004 at 10:39 PM
I don't think this has anything to do with Messenger Plus!. Anyway.. this is what happens. Whenever I sign in, on my home computer (I'm not sure if it happens on others), it ALWAYS changes my nickname back to "Wayne" from whatever it was before. I always have to change it after I sign in.
Can anyone help me or does anyone know why?
RE: My nickname's automatically changing by lopardo on 09-23-2004 at 02:33 AM
Do you have any other add-on or plugin?
You could try this:
Close Messenger.
Go to the Start menu > Run, write "regedit" and press Enter.
Locate in the tree the following folder: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Patchou\MsgPlus2\<your e-mail>\Preferences
(where <your e-mail> obviously is your account's e-mail address).
Once you selected Preferences from the tree, a bunch of options should appear on the right, search for the following options:
PersoAwayRestoreAway
PersoAwayRestoreOriginal
If they exist, delete them (right click them > Delete).
Restart Messenger and check.
Important note:
What I described above is editing the registry. The registry is very important for Windows to be able to start and work correctly, so you should be always be very careful. If you follow my instructions exactly then there should be no problems.
RE: My nickname's automatically changing by Skillumination on 09-23-2004 at 06:01 AM
Yep.. I have skinned MSN Messenger in Gant MSN, I also have the handwriting plugin, and the when where it reads your messages. RDM Speech or something, where you type /xspeakit followed by the message to be read. And of course.. Messenger Plus!
I looked there, I'm pretty sure I found the right place, but it's not there. However.. there is:
PersoAwayAutoClose
PersoAwayMsgDelay
PersoAwayNameMax
I don't think I've got any other plugins or mods for MSN Messenger besides:
Gant MSN
Handwriting
RDM Speech
Messenger Plus!
RE: My nickname's automatically changing by matty on 09-23-2004 at 07:07 AM
Do you have a key in this location...
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Patchou\MsgPlus2\%your_email%\Preferences that says NameOnSignin... if so delete it, Change your name, log off and back on.
RE: My nickname's automatically changing by Skillumination on 09-23-2004 at 07:12 AM
Oh!!! Yea I do!!! And the data is "Wayne"... no wonder why, thanks!
I think I set this accidentally, but I don't know how. Do you know how I did it at least?
Thanks a lot!
RE: My nickname's automatically changing by matty on 09-23-2004 at 07:23 AM
quote:Probably using Choli's Plus! Tweak application that allows you to change all the registry settings that are not available in the Plus! Preferences window.
Originally posted by Skillumination
Oh!!! Yea I do!!! And the data is "Wayne"... no wonder why, thanks!
I think I set this accidentally, but I don't know how. Do you know how I did it at least?
Thanks a lot!
RE: My nickname's automatically changing by Skillumination on 09-23-2004 at 07:26 AM
Yea, I do use that.. but I don't actually remember setting anything to "Wayne". Anyway.. thanks for that, now I don't have to keep changing my nickname!