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Originally posted by rpOliveira
Ok and thanks for your answer! But when I said if it was possible to retrieve information from the files I ment from the files that constitute the registry of the Windows. I have all files of the disk that I formatted so the information of the registry is on some files that hopefully I could retrieve. Isn't there a tool to retrieve keys form files of registry (not current working registry)?
Yes there are tools which can read the hive files. But this would be very very much work for nothing. Just reconfigure your MSN Messenger again. I'm sure you still know how you set those handfull of options.
As for the settings regarding display pictures, backgrounds, emoticons, nothing of those settings are saved in the registry. So that's why you would have much work for actually nothing when you want to do the above.
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Originally posted by rpOliveira
I guess I could do all the work manually again but my problem is that each custom emoticon had a code given by me that i don't know now.
That info (the shortcuts) are also saved in those encrypted map.dat files, not in the registry. So you need to add them one by one again.
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Originally posted by rpOliveira
(By the way, is there a viewer of the logs that show emoticons?)
The normal viewer of MSN Messenger itself shows emoticons (that is, the default emoticons). Or for an external logviewer you could try:
http://360software.dakotabcn.net/logviewer/
There is no existing log viewer, that I know of, that also can show custom emoticons. Also this wouldn't be of much use as the shortcuts can change for those emoticons. Eg: a year ago you used ":M:" to show a small white emoticon, now you have ":M:" set so it shows a big red emoticon; When you view the old log it will show the big red emoticon at best (if it has access to the shortcut settings and associated emoticons though), not the small white emoticon like it was intended back then.
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