Hi,

I would like to remove the status "offline" from my MSN.
I tried to search on the Internet, but with no success !

Can someone tell me how to remove this status ?
Or If there is a patch, or add-on made for that ?
Or if someone can make one ?
Or (again ) How can i do it myself ?

Thank you all, if you know something...

Bozz.

I don't quite understand your question, you want to remove the offline status from the menu or offline in general?

Why would you want to do that?

Just dont use it?

I want to remove it in general.

Bozz.

You can't remove it in "general". But you can probably remove it from the menu with the proper patch.

Ok, I managed to do it :
I used ResHack to remove the status in the msgslang.dll file.
It works fine so far...

Bozz.

lol for the record, why did you want to remove it?

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Originally posted by -rafy-
lol for the record, why did you want to remove it?

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I didn't remove the offline from the contact list, because i sort my contacts by group.
But i just wanted to remove the offline from the status list. And that's what I did.

Now.. to satisfy the curiosity of rafy (he aked me twice my reason) :
- First, I think that the appear offline status is useless. If you want to be connected but dont want to be disturb there is already a status for that.
- There is also several setting options to avoid annoying messages.
- Second, my wife use MSN also my computer. I just want her to be online when she's connected, because, if I'm not home and want to talk to her, I just want her to get the message (immediatly i mean).
- I think it's very egoist to only be able to send message, and not receive them !!!!

Firstly if you don't want to use it then just don't use it, with your wife for instance unless you tell messenger to connect as "appear offline" then you won't - you will automatically be signed in as online.

You cannot send messages to people while your appearing as offline. You have to change your status to online/busy/away etc to send or recieve messages. Basicially there is no feature of msn messenger where only you can send messages and your contacts can't send them  back.

What is this tag Madsen ?

And you know where I can find the /appearoffline command ? (when you type commands in the chat window).

Bozz.

lmao...does it make much difference getting rid of everything to do with it?  lmao if you dont like it dont use it lol......but up to you i suppose, I fail to see the logic behind your reason.

/appearoffline would be something you would need to change in plus.

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Originally posted by Chestah
Firstly if you don't want to use it then just don't use it, with your wife for instance unless you tell messenger to connect as "appear offline" then you won't - you will automatically be signed in as online.

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You cannot send messages to people while your appearing as offline. You have to change your status to online/busy/away etc to send or recieve messages. Basicially there is no feature of msn messenger where only you can send messages and your contacts can't send them  back.

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A. Madsen was referring to the "(Offline)" that appears behind all your contacts that are currently offline.

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Originally posted by BozzBozz
 
This is not exactly true : you will be automatically be signed in as the last status used to be signed in.

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I still have no idea why you wont to get rid of /appearoffline as well?
Just dont use it!

*me is getting confused lol.

Ok.. ok... ok....
I see the confusion here....
As you said : just dont use it ! Ok, I never used it, and i still dont use it ! that is ok.

The thing is I just dont want anyone to use it too (at least on my computer... it's only what i can do) so that's why i just want to force them to use other options.
Because again... i'd like to reach people at home when i'm out of home (at work, school, friends, etc...). (and again, it is the msn install on my computer at home that i modified )

Bozz.

oh ok i see what you mean now as well, why not just tell them that you'd like them to not use that feature! It saves alot of time and if you explain to them why i'm sure they'd do it! Most people use the "appear offline" feature when they want to see if its worth signing in - if theres anyone online that they want to talk to. They could use it anyway and then if they saw you online they could then come online and talk

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Originally posted by Chestah
Most people use the "appear offline" feature when they want to see if its worth signing in - if theres anyone online that they want to talk to.

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They could use it anyway and then if they saw you online they could then come online and talk

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Originally posted by BozzBozz
As you said : just dont use it ! Ok, I never used it, and i still dont use it ! that is ok.

The thing is I just dont want anyone to use it too (at least on my computer... it's only what i can do) so that's why i just want to force them to use other options.
Because again... i'd like to reach people at home when i'm out of home (at work, school, friends, etc...). (and again, it is the msn install on my computer at home that i modified )

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Originally posted by BozzBozz
- I think it's very egoist to only be able to send message, and not receive them !!!!

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