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Originally posted by Chris4
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Originally posted by traxor
More In depth explanation
On the administrators account, go to C:/Program Files in there, copy and paste the msn messenger folder, and rename the folder that you pasted something like "Sister's MSN" or something.
Now, put the lvback.gif that you want in your folder, and the one that you want your sister to have in hers... Now, go onto your sisters account (somehow 
)... and put a shortcut to her msn on the desktop, and tell her thats the one that she has to use or something... Not sure if you can set privacy things for programs 
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I'm trying to do this. I have done exactly this, I copied the MSN Messenger folder and named it 'MSN Messenger (Sisters)'. I open up the msnmsgr.exe from C:\Program Files\MSN Messenger (Sisters)\ with the blank lvback.gif in that folder, yet it still loads the lvback.gif from \MSN Messenger\ ??
I can't work it out, I'll keep trying.
P.S. Sorry to bring up an old thread.
Because what traxor explained/suggested is not how it works regarding the lvback.gif file...
Messenger will always look at the registry to first see where Messenger is installed.
If it has found its install directory it will load the lvback.gif file from there. So you can move around the whole directory as many times and to wherever you want, it will always load lvback from the directory set in the registry.
2 things you can do:
1) (
I wouldn't recommend this emthod since many more things depend on it) When a user signs in, change the directory in the registry to the user specific lvback.gif and close and reopen the contactlist.
When the user signs out, change that registry value back to what it was.
2) (
preferred method) When a user signs in, replace the lvback.gif with the user-specific image and close and reopen the contactlist.
When the user signs out, change the lvback.gif file back to what it was
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You do not need to copy or make a second Messenger directory in order to make this working.
Take a look at the
Background Changer script (
which needs some updating though - /me adds to todo list), the code in there is almost everything you need.
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