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Great job! I might put it on my website when it's back online.

very nice work, cookie

it looks very professional

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Originally posted by Juzzi
Great job! I might put it on my website when it's back online.

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
For those who want to host this tool: Please don't...... Instead provide a link to this post instead:
http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=50978

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Wow great job! I've always wanted to see a program written by you (heard something about you and DOS?).

Nice going! This one is a keeper.

Cool program! Very very usefull!
Great work, Cookie!

Love the presentation Cookie (of your post). For now I dont need this but good to know it exists.

Good job, usefull tool!

Thats a great program, you've made it really clear and easy to use

very nice ! Your description is great and concise, this will definitly come in handy for people having these problems.

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
- Unicode support in listview (don't count on it though)

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Private Sub Form_Load()
    ListView1.Font.Charset = 178
    ListView1.FontName = "Arial"
End Sub

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Great job Cookie you havent let us down, keep up the good work and maybe you should take a break you look tired from helping all these people.

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Originally posted by Matty

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
- Unicode support in listview (don't count on it though)

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Private Sub Form_Load()
    ListView1.Font.Charset = 178
    ListView1.Font.Name = "Arial"
End Sub

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There is your unicode support for the listview

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
There isn't any "trick" you can do to make it unicode; Instristic controls in VB6 simply do not support true unicode, nothing you do will change that.

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Hmm... it said it installed but my sound list for WLM+ remains the same.
I think it's installing the sounds into my OLD soundpack...

In my Program Files there is a "Messenger Plus! 3" and "Messenger Plus!" Live.

All my old sounds are listed but yet they are not reappearing, can anyone help me out? I ran the tool as instructed.

EDIT: Okay, all my old sounds are in
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Messenger Plus!\Custom Sounds

...this presents me with something weird. I cannot locate my new ones that are connected to Plus! Live.
I think it is this "disconnection" that is redirecting my sounds back with the program, as yet I cannot locate the sounds from my Messenger Plus! Live.

Can anyone help?

EDIT2: Okay, I found that "Messengerplus3" was still installed, so I used Control Panel to remove it. Rather stupidly, I thought this would redirect the old sounds to the new Messengerpluslive.

What it actually did was remove all my old sounds too. Bugger.
Oh well, never mind. Still have no idea why the tool failed to function though...

Oddly, it removed my current sounds too.
So Msg+3 was able to take my Msg+Live sounds with it. Yet Msg+Live couldn't touch my Msg+3 sounds o.O.

The reason it failed to import your sounds into MsgPlus! Live is because this version was specifically wrtten for MsgPlus 3.xx.

MsgPlus! 3.xx stores its sound information in the registry under the key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Patchou\MsgPlus2\Nobody\CustSounds,

whereas MsgPlus! Live stores it under:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Patchou\Messenger Plus! Live\GlobalSettings\CustSounds

and so whenever you run the tool it will only write to the MsgPlus! 3.xx registry setting (hence why the sounds didn't show up in MsgPlus! Live)

If you had all the sounds in your library in 3.xx, then installed WLM + MsgPlus! Live, I'm not sure why your sounds weren't automatically imported though...

I hope you know what I mean, I'm not very good at explaining stuff

Maybe its time the tool was updated for MsgPlus! Live support Cookie?

Can someone make a version of this tool that will work on Messenger Plus! Live?

The Messenger Plus! Sound Library Fixer has been updated to be compatible with Messenger Plus! Live too.

Current version: 3.00.0021

See first post

thnx

At the end of the about screen you're referring to www.msgplus.net, which isn't available anymore.

You should fix that.

And add a note for Windows Live Messenger, to let people know that Microsoft changed their trademark from MSN to Windows Live.

Nothing to fix...

www.msgplus.net still works, the trademark hasn't changed (WLM is a new trademark) and copyright/trademark info is valid for when a program was compiled (you don't need to change a program when trademarks change; that would mean every program ever created must be updated constantly).

I'm sorry to correct you, but www.msgplus.net doesn't work anymore. At least here in Germany. (I've tried to access the site from different browsers, like Firefox 2.0.0.1, K-Meleon 1.02, Opera 9.10, IE7 but none of them are able to display the site)

And yeah, you're right Cookie. But well, it's not that hard  to simply mention "Windows Live Messenger" in following sentence "And last but not least, thanks to Patchou for making such a great add-on for MSN Messenger/[Windows Live Messenger should be mentioned here]."

Anyways, thanks for spent time into the developing of such an useful program. We all appreciate your work.

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Originally posted by Screeny²
I'm sorry to correct you, but www.msgplus.net doesn't work anymore. At least here in Germany. (I've tried to access the site from different browsers, like Firefox 2.0.0.1, K-Meleon 1.02, Opera 9.10, IE7 but none of them are able to display the site)

And yeah, you're right Cookie. But well, it's not that hard  to simply mention "Windows Live Messenger" in following sentence "And last but not least, thanks to Patchou for making such a great add-on for MSN Messenger/[Windows Live Messenger should be mentioned here]."

Anyways, thanks for spent time into the developing of such a useful program. We all appreciate your work.

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but shouldn't http://www.msgplus.net redirect to the new site anyway? well it did for me.

So in reality it doesn't need to be changed as it should go to the new site anyway.

for me, www.msgplus.net redirects to www.msgpluslive.net and old.msgplus.net is the old site. So i don't see any problem with that.

I did everything ya told...
but i doesnt work for me
i got about 2000 sounds in my CUSTOM SOUNDS directory but the fixer cant find anything :/

hello can any help i click the program and all i get is run time error '339' Windows common controls ActiveX control DLL (COMCTL32.ocx) how do i fix it Heeeeeeelp

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Originally posted by Bigsteve30
hello can any help i click the program and all i get is run time error '339' Windows common controls ActiveX control DLL (COMCTL32.ocx) how do i fix it Heeeeeeelp

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
This tool also uses the COMCTL32.OCX common controls library. Again, if you have successfully run applications like Choli's MsgPlus Tweaker, you have it already installed. If not, you can download it from various sources on the net. For example from here.

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thanks for help i can backup my sounds now  i'm happy

This file wont open when i have AVG installed... i dunno whats wrong but AVG detects it as a threat... what should i do ?

Ignore maybe? im sure anything that CookieRevised makes is fine ;o

You can just ignore it.  I can assure you that the file is safe.  Virus detectors will often say that things are "malicious" or a "threat" from MsgPlus (or associated sites) because of the optional ad-ware in the MsgPlus unstaller (and realistically it isn't that bad, Patchou has made sure it doesn't do any damage).  Just don't stress about it and use the ignore button and everything should be alright.

Thanks for reporting this to us though, we may get in contact with AVG and recommend they look into the reasoning behind this and try to fix it.

still dont open... when i click ignore. i even exit and shut down AVG and it still wont open

There is absolutely nothing in the file/source that even could be considered a threat!!!!!!

The only thing it does is accessing a registry setting which has absolutely no further value at all for Windows or any other program than Plus!. And that is also the only link to Plus! in the whole file; a registry setting....

It is absolutely flabbergasting rediculus that this is detected as a virus!


Thanks for reporting though....

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Make sure you have truely closed AVG (quite often such anti-virus programs do not completely close when you exit them, or they might still have a Windows Service running in the background). Then redownload the file and save it to your hard disk first.

Never run an application straight from the download dialog, that's asking for trouble (but that is another matter). And don't save downloads to your desktop either, that's very messy.

Clicking on ignore in anti-virus programs also quite often still put the file in quarity, meaning that you indeed can't start the file/program. Ignore in such cases does not mean "ignore this threat", but often means "do not attempt to remove the virus, but keep the file as-is and block it from being used".

However, AVG shouldn't do that, and when you click on ignore it should completely leave the file alone. To solve this issue you better contact support of AVG itself.

Looks like AVG will be heading the same route as Norton with it's "uber dangerous registry calls"

[OFF TOPIC]

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Originally posted by aNILEator
Looks like AVG will be heading the same route as Norton with it's "uber dangerous registry calls"

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I'm trying to run the file, but getting an error. Yes, I've downloaded the redistributables and have and registered the ocx file.
The zip file extracts the exe fine, but the exe only has the default executable icon, and i get the attached error when running it

Here's an update. After I restarted my PC and ran the checker again, AVG opened up and wants to clean the file. Obviously, i select ignore. Disabling AVG's resident shield allowed the file to run.

FYI, AVG detected the file as Obfustat.EVT

Yes, that is the same issue what DanKane316 posted before. There is nothing wrong or malicious in this tool at all. MS Word does far more "damaging" than this tool.

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DanKane316, exit/disable AVG completely. Just exiting AVG doesn't close it completely. As MeEtc has said, disable AVG's Resident Shield  Service too....

(and that is, on a personal note, what I so dislike about the modern anti-whatever programs... they are quite often as hard, if not harder to get rid of than (some) spyware. Exiting an application should close it completely)....

The Sound Library Fix doesn't work with Vista (though silly me should've noticed the first post was in 2005!).

My niece loved her library of sounds and was forever bugging me with them on MSN. When she tries to send me them now, they appear as weird numbers and letters. I've tried uninstalling her Messenger Plus! and putting new Sound Packs on, but it's still doing it.

Anyone have any ideas, please? (I'm on XP and my Sound Library still works fine).

if u need the COMCTL32.ocx try
http://www.nitropdf.com/kb/article.aspx?id=10031

open the MsgPlusLibFix the same place the comctl32.ocx file is and its works fine but i'm on Xp still because i hate Vista and nothing works right

Thanks, Bigsteve30. I downloaded comctl32.ocx as suggested.

Unfortunately Vista won't let me touch either of the files now without "administrator permission" no matter what I do. ("Windows cannot access the specified path, device or file.")

That and AVG keeps firing virus warnings at me.

Great work. Thanks a lot

simulation rachat credit

Cookie, are you gonna make a version for Messenger Plus! 5?

Hence, someone on the spanish forums reported to have some problems with Messenger Plus! 5, so she installed Plus! 4.9 again but the library isn't reading her sounds (I suppose that the path that Plus!5 uses for the custom sound is different from Plus!4?) nope, it still uses the same

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Originally posted by Kafman
Hence, someone on the spanish forums reported to have some problems with Messenger Plus! 5, so she installed Plus! 4.9 again but the library isn't reading her sounds (I suppose that the path that Plus!5 uses for the custom sound is different from Plus!4?) nope, it still uses the same

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Exactly what pollolibredegrasa said....

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Originally posted by Kafman
Cookie, are you gonna make a version for Messenger Plus! 5?

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Originally posted by pollolibredegrasa
However, as long as the .dat files are still present, running the tool again after reinstalling 4.9 should make them show up again in the library for versions 4.9 and lower.

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
An update will eventually be made though. But at the moment I don't have the time (and code - its on an old PC which I first need to fix).

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Admin edit: attachment removed (cumware.org reports MsgPlusLibFix.exe Virus identified Obfustat.EVT)
This post was edited on Tuesday, March 27th, 2012 at 04:57 PM by Menthix.

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WTF.... that's definitely a false positive!
Why wasn't I informed about the removal

I don't agree with it being removed without notice, but it was probably listed as "yet another" virus hosted here on the forums making the site appear less trustworthy

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Originally posted by Spunky
I don't agree with it being removed without notice, but it was probably listed as "yet another" virus hosted here on the forums making the site appear less trustworthy

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Hmmm, it appears the file is still there and accessible. Just the link was removed not the attachment. So it makes no odds anyway...

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This post was edited Yesterday at 07:47 PM by CookieRevised.

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aye