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CookieRevised
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O.P. BUG: certain group names in contact list will seriously screw up your settings :P

OMG.... I just discovered such a stupid bug in WLM that it is simply to lame for words...

Hence why I wouldn't withhold you from knowing it (and laughing at he/she who implemented this; probably an interim or jobstudent

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The state of groups (indicated by showing ">", or not showing "^") is stored in the registry so you have exactly the same states the next time you sign in to messenger... So far so good...

It is stored under your personal .NET Passport settings
(HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MSNMessenger\PerPassportSettings\<passportID>... So far so good...

But they are stored as simply and literally the name of the group...
DOH!!!!!!!

This means that if you have a group name for example "AllowBuzz" you actually will toggle the "Allow nudges" setting by showing/not showing the contacts in that group!!

(AllowBuzz is the registry setting for "Allow nudges")

This post was edited on 04-10-2006 at 07:34 PM by CookieRevised.

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04-10-2006 07:33 PM

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RE: BUG: certain group names in contact list will seriously screw up your settings :P

You've lost me

I don't get what your on about sorry

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04-10-2006 07:39 PM

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RE: BUG: certain group names in contact list will seriously screw up your settings :P

Nice find

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Originally posted by Msg Plus Freak
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In WLM change the sorting contacts to groups and rename a group AllowBuzz and if you kepp the group as "^" you will not ba able to send a nudge to your contacts.

04-10-2006 08:06 PM

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RE: BUG: certain group names in contact list will seriously screw up your settings :P

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
This means that if you have a group name for example "AllowBuzz" you actually will toggle the "Allow nudges" setting by showing/not showing the contacts in that group!!

Hahahaha!

I was looking at regedit today, to see where the color was saved, and I saw the group names... But I didn't even think of that!

LMAO! Someone will feel retarded...

Although for some lazy people this is interesting. You just toggle the group and disable Nudges, toggle again and enable them! :rofl:

This post was edited on 04-10-2006 at 08:10 PM by L. Coyote.

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04-10-2006 08:09 PM

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RE: BUG: certain group names in contact list will seriously screw up your settings :P

* Dempsey slaps Messengers devs for not using a subkey for storing group data

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that's not a bug, thats an unexpected feature

04-10-2006 08:10 PM

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RE: BUG: certain group names in contact list will seriously screw up your settings :P

Perhaps they are planning a dodgy new way of setting your preferences

04-10-2006 08:35 PM

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RE: BUG: certain group names in contact list will seriously screw up your settings :P

Woah Cookie..amazing find hehee..well done (Y)

What else can i say but...
:rofl:

@ whoever implemented it that way...shame shame shame...shame on you

That definately needs fixing!

This post was edited on 04-10-2006 at 08:50 PM by Sunshine.

04-10-2006 08:45 PM

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RE: BUG: certain group names in contact list will seriously screw up your settings :P

ahahahahahhahahhahahahahahahaaaa
it is possible to take away the nudge restriction with the resgistry right?

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04-10-2006 08:45 PM

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RE: BUG: certain group names in contact list will seriously screw up your settings :P

quote:
Originally posted by CookieRevised
they are stored as simply and literally the name of the group

I bet someone on the Messenger team's in for an ass-kicking: that's such a stupid mistake to make!

04-10-2006 08:51 PM

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RE: BUG: certain group names in contact list will seriously screw up your settings :P

oh well at least you can now add groups like AllowBuzz to quickly change settings :cheesy:

04-11-2006 07:17 AM

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