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is ther anyway to sign in to MSN on Appear offline status?
10x for ur help

JnrzLoader, www.mess.be

Do a basic search on these forums and you'll find tons of information....


If you want to appear "offline" when you sign in into Messenger you can use one of the following things:

A Proxy

With MSN Proxy you can select your initial status when signing in (offline, away, etc...)

Plus! is not needed for this to work.
More info and download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/msnproxy
MSN Proxy forums: http://msnproxy.sourceforge.net/forums/

(Does not work in MSN Messenger 7.x)

An Addon

Messenger Discovery is an addon for MSN Messenger which let you do lots of stuff (although it has been reported to be very buggy). One of the things is to sign in with any status, thus including "appear offline".

It functions as a proxy between MSN Messenger and the internet, thus it works in a similar way as MSN Proxy.

Plus! is not needed for this to work.
More info and download: http://www.messengerdiscovery.com/


A Plus! Plugin

DJMystic created a plugin for Messenger Plus! called StatusSaver.
It saves whatever status you're in. So, whenever you restart messenger your online status is changed in an instant to the saved one; Your contacts will still see you coming online, but in a flash your status is changed to your last used status (from when you signed out).

If you want it to startup with the same status each time regardless of how you left it the last time then make the file "Oldstatus.dat", which you'll find in your plugins-folder, read-only after you've changed to the status of your choice.

It needs Messenger Plus! to work.
You can download it here: http://shoutbox.menthix.net/attachment.php?tid=20188&pid=187701.
(simply put the dll into your plugins folder)


A Loader (personal recommendation !!!)

Jnrz7 created a loader called JnrzLoader.
It is a memory patcher/editor for MSN Messenger. It will load MSN Messenger into memory and will modify some of its internal commands by changing some bytes inside its memory space, then it will quit itself. With it you can open as many MSN Messenger's instances as you like (polygamy) and you will be signed in with the "Appear Offline" status also.

So, it just loads MSN Messenger and then quits itself, so there won't be an extra program running if you use this.

Plus! is not needed for the loader to work.
More Info and download: http://www.jnrzsystems.tk/
(make sure you download the correct version for your MSN Messenger!!!)

Note: If the websites is down, you can find the Universal JnrzLoader also on http://www.mess.be/. More specifically here: Universal JnrzLoader (for MSN Messenger 6.2.0205 and up)


A Patch

Nega Patch is one of the patches which will alter your MSN Messenger executable file so that it signs in "Appear Offline". If you wanna use this you must be 100% sure that you have the correct patch for the correct MSN Messenger version. Even then, if your Messenger is skinned it is possible that the patch will screw up your Messenger.

But beware: The method used by Nega Patch can be called "dodgy" as it swaps the online and offline status physically. Although it works (almost) fine if you don't use any other addon/plugin, this can *beep* up the process of other addons/plugins. And for this same reason, it is also strongly recommended that you disable the idle timeout function of Messenger itself, otherwise Nega Patch will cause Messenger to close all active windows and switch you to appear offline when you return from being idle....

More Info and download: http://msn.d1f.org/index.html
(always make a backup of your MSN Messenger before applying any patch)

Update: The Nega patch website has been closed as the creator believes it is of no use anymore since msn messenger 7 has the option to sign in with "appear offline". Yet, he forgets that still many people use msn messenger 6.2 these days I personally wouldn't recommend the patch anyways (for above reasons) but if you still want it, you probably can find it on http://www.mess.be.

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Note: the programs described above have also some other features, if you want to know more, follow the links...

Note: in MSN Messenger 7.x this feature will be build in. You will be able to choose your signin status. Although, when you're signing in automatically, you still will be signed in 'online'.

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10x for ur help, your info are very usefull

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
A Proxy

With MSN Proxy you can select your initial status when signing in (offline, away, etc...)
Plus! is not needed for this to work.
More info and download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/msnproxy

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that's the best one i think

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Originally posted by BooGhost

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
A Proxy

With MSN Proxy you can select your initial status when signing in (offline, away, etc...)
Plus! is not needed for this to work.
More info and download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/msnproxy

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that's the best one i think

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Yea i agree, after testing it just now.. it is very reliable, does not change messenger in any way (except that it is acting through a proxy, of course) and it supports plugins

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Originally posted by Underlord
Yea i agree, after testing it just now.. it is very reliable, does not change plus in any way (except that it is acting through a proxy, of course) and it supports plugins

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Others do not change Plus! either...
Others support 'plugins' as well... (if you mean compatible with plus! plugins)

The only advantage above the others is you connect thru a proxy...
A big disadvantage (in my eyes) is that it is yet another app that is running in the background; the others are not extra programs you need to keep running in order to let it work...

Hi, this plugin works great for me but it doesn't appear to remember the personalized statuses.  Is there something I need to do for it to remember those?

Derek

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Originally posted by dweber5
Hi, this plugin works great for me but it doesn't appear to remember the personalized statuses.  Is there something I need to do for it to remember those?

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There is a registry setting named ResetNameTag that you can use to let Plus! remember your Personalised Setting. The path to it is HKCU\Software\Patchou\MsgPlus2\your@email.com\Preferences,
value name is ResetNameTag, type is dword and the default value is 1 (which means the tag will be removed after signing in and out).

If you wish to keep the Personalised Status, you should change the 1 to 0. If you don't know much about the registry, I advise you to use Choli's Tweak!. More information about this program, that can configure the 'hidden' registry settings, can be found at http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=17225.

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Originally posted by CookieRevised

If you want it to startup with the same status each time regardless of how you left it the last time, make the file "Oldstatus.dat" read-only in your plugins-folder.




(always make a backup of your MSN Messenger before applying any patch)

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First question: how do you make "oldstatus.dat read-only?

Second: How do you make a backup of MSN Messenger (or anything else for that matter)

Sorry! I have no idea!