Shoutbox

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Originally posted by Shawnz

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Originally posted by unigolyn

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Originally posted by Shawnz

I am not trying to tell you how to hack messenger but
for windows 98 users, to reset your Plus! password:
1. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del
2. Select MSN Messenger
3. Click End Task
4. Open MSN Messenger the way you usually do
5. Click Properties under the Plus! menu
6. Select Instant Lock
7. Enter your new password
8. Click OK
The password has been reset!

I do agree that you should put a password verification in a new version,
and i also agree that no matter wat Plus Kicks Ass!

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Well, it's not as hard as i thought it would be (I never actually mistyped my pwd, and I know how to kill a task), which kinda defeats the purpose of the locking, since anyone can perform the above-mentioned task killing and get into your contact list/hotmail by relaunching msn. So in a future release, I'd include pwd verification, and if possible, it should stay locked even during a same-session restart of Messenger. That is, if I could code, and make programs as useful as Plus.

(I'm not sure you can keep Messenger locked after a task killing, because while killing Messenger, they can also end the msgplus process, and I figured you need the msgplus process to have any control over Messenger itself; likewise the locking is done by Plus, not Messenger)

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you can make a password that stays even after the session kill if there is a code to check if and save the password that is currently active into an ini or text file. with some encoding that would be the best way to handle this.

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Maybe an encrypted password...

Maybe there could be a switch... like if you start the lock feature, it writes/modifies a code onto an ini (which should be hard to find and decode) and if the task is killed before the user unlocks, next time, msgplus would know that lock is still on and immediate lock Messenger.

Hope you'all understand