Shoutbox

gregrj,

The 'CTRL+click' option to unlock Messenger is not visually included yet in the preferences interface of Plus!5.

However, the option does exist as an advanced registry tweak, so you can enable/disable the option yourself by manually tweaking the Plus!5 settings in the Windows registry.

But first a warning: note that you need to be very carefull when you edit your registry directly. If you change the wrong thing you can screw up Windows!

1. Open your registry editor: Windows Start Button > Run > type: "regedit" (without the quotes) and press enter.
   Or press the key combination WIN+R to open the Run dialog.
   
   
2. In the left pane of the registry editor window, navigate to:
   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Yuna Software\Messenger Plus!\Windows Live Messenger\your_windows_live_id\Preferences
   
   
3. Once you're there, right-click somewhere in the right pane and choose: New > DWORD-value
   
   
4. Name the new key: LockClickNeedsCtrl and press enter.
   
   
5. Double click the just created LockClickNeedsCtrl key and set its value to 1 (to enable) or 0 (to disable) and press enter.
   
   
6. Close the registry editor and restart Messenger.

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Note: in regards to exporting settings from an account, which has this option enabled, and importing those settings back in another account, works too, but it will also overwrite other settings though.