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Hi, I hope I'm not asking a question that's been answered many times before, but I've searched everywhere and just can't find an answer to this simple question

Is there a way to permanently change the default systray icon for MSN Messenger 7.5?  I've reshacked all the icons in the .exe, but the systray icon is still the man with the butterfly!  I've very anal about all my icons matching and wanna get this changed.

I know that Plus! changes it with the boss protection mode, but is it just possible to keep it changed all the time?  Any help would be appreciated greatly, thank you!

You probably didn't look well enough then, 'cause its in the resources..

I changed every single icon resource o.O

Is it a PNG or something to that avail? I'm not stupid by far , but I can't find which resource it is...Could you point me in the right direction?

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Originally posted by Bleed
Is it a PNG or something to that avail?

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I think they are Bitmaps.

The systray icon?  The one that sits next to the clock? It can't be :3.

Doing so that way doesn't allow you to use alpha transparent images, unlike the method Boss Mode does in Plus! >.<

Is there a way to do it like Boss Mode does it?

I am guessing Boss mode hooks the Shell_NotifyIcon function and catches the NOTIFYICONDATA structure.  To change the icon you would need to change the hIcon member of that structure and call Shell_NotifyIcon again with the NIM_MODIFY command.

I'm not exactly sure which bitmap it is, but there's not that many to choose from.

You can make it transparent. Whatever area you want to be transparent, fill it in with that pink colour you see in the bitmaps, that's where the images are transparent. Then save it in the proper format.

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Originally posted by Bleed
Doing so that way doesn't allow you to use alpha transparent images, unlike the method Boss Mode does in Plus! >.<

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That's correct, but there's no other way to do it by reshacking msnmsgr.exe.