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windows 7 has updated to me the wlm to essential 2011 package or something like that.
and now i see the contacts brighten than it was earlier.
this is the way i see it:


how can i fix this crap?
thanks

That usually means that you're appearing offline to those persons (or blocked them as you would say in an older WLM version).
Try right-clicking a contact and go to "Appear online to this person".

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Originally posted by Mike
That usually means that you're appearing offline to those persons (or blocked them as you would say in an older WLM version).
Try right-clicking a contact and go to "Appear online to this person".

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yea that was it i suppose.. thanks dudes

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Originally posted by Mike
That usually means that you're appearing offline to those persons (or blocked them as you would say in an older WLM version).
Try right-clicking a contact and go to "Appear online to this person".

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Now I've learned that you can "appear offline" to certain categories such as "Favorites" as a whole. I've never seen this because I sort contacts by online/offline status. I do think it's sort of odd that you can't "appear offline" to a default category like "Other Contacts."

Thanks!

On a (vaguely) Similar topic, once you 'appear online to all friend', it actually works to unblock contacts (as i unpleasantly found out). Is there a feature that gives the effect of blocking/'appearing offline' permanently to a contact that doesnt get overridden by the 'appear online to all' feature?

Or perhaps, is it script-able?

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Originally posted by Oxy
Or perhaps, is it script-able?

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I think blocking using the script engine produces the same result as the new appearing offline in 2011. It would then be possible to check if "x" is unblocked, block them.

I'm hoping that appearing offline to someone will trigger a status change event. If so, it'll be a lot resource intensive else it'll need a timer, or to trigger on something else. I'll take a look and get back to you on it.

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Unfortunately, the contact will probably see you flicker online for a second due to the nature of the ContactUnblocked event. Just click the toast to unblock them permanently, don't click it and they'll just be blocked again

js code:

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var safe = new Array()

function OnEvent_ContactUnblocked(email){
    var found = false;
    for(var s in safe){
        if(s == email) found = true;
    }
    if(found == false){
        Messenger.MyContacts.GetContact(email).Blocked = true;
        MsgPlus.DisplayToast("reBLOCK", "Click here to unblock" + email,"","unblock",email);
    }else{
        delete safe[email];
    }   
}

function unblock(e){
    safe[e] = e;
    Messenger.MyContacts.GetContact(e).Blocked = false;
}

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Originally posted by Oxy
EDIT:

Unfortunately, the contact will probably see you flicker online for a second due to the nature of the ContactUnblocked event.

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I guess the only way to prevent that is to use the block all / unblock all functions from a script...