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Originally posted by AndreY
Concerning the DPs, MSN 7 still works the same way as 6.x.
All Display Pictures and Custom Emoticons you receive are saved on your computer. They are not saved as image files but as *.bin files in some "Temporary Internet Files" Sub-folders.
So basically, to retrieve them, you can do a file search on your computer for *.bin and then pick the files which are listed to be in a subfolder of "Temporary Internet Files" and copy them to wherever you want. Then rename them to .png and you will see the actual Display Pictures.
There are some programs that do this searching bit for you, the CE/DP stealers, which can be found here.
Actually, as CookieRevised said in one of those threads (or both), you can't just search for *.bin files in the TIF folder, as the actual filenames for the DP/CE files in that folder are "hidden".
But if you look at the file
tipe type, it shows it's Binary (*.BIN) and you can look at the attributes, where it says "Cache Name".