Shoutbox

disclaimer: you'll be modifying msn. this violates your eula probably. do so at your own risk.

by popular demand:
How to make the infobar red.
1. get resource hacker (http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/)
2. open msgres.dll
3. find (ctrl+f or in the view menu) "infobar" (sans quotes)
4. find next (f3 or in the view menu) until you get to the stylesheets (in the 4005 folder)
5. you want to find things that look like

code:

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infobar
{
Background:rcclr(1415);

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and change them to

code:

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infobar
{
Background:argb(255,255,00,00);

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there are a bunch of such things
some might have "rcclr(20025)" or something as the colour
as long as it's a Background:rcclr within an infobar {, you'll want to make it argb(255,255,00,00)
6. close reshacker, save over msgres.dll


and that's my tutorial. obviously argb(255,255,00,00) could be any colour you like. i think it looks best in yellow (a.k.a. argb(255,255,255,00))

next up: changing the text colour in the infobar.

Ummm why is this in scripts?

Wrong forum; even though people wanted it you still shouldn't put it here

fine then move it.

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Originally posted by AberNStein
fine then move it.

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I have already reported it to be moved. As well you might want to add a disclaimer because modifying any part of Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger is against its EULA.

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Originally posted by Matty

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Originally posted by AberNStein
fine then move it.

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I have already reported it to be moved. As well you might want to add a disclaimer because modifying any part of Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger is against its EULA.

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isn't installing msgplus a violation of the EULA?

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Originally posted by AberNStein

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Originally posted by Matty

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Originally posted by AberNStein
fine then move it.

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I have already reported it to be moved. As well you might want to add a disclaimer because modifying any part of Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger is against its EULA.

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isn't installing msgplus a violation of the EULA?

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No, MsgPlus doesn't modify the exe.

neither did I

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Originally posted by AberNStein
rcclr(1415)

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is probably linking to item 1415 in the Stringtable, so changing that should work too, and you'd only have to change it once

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Originally posted by AberNStein
neither did I

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You are changing the original contents of the file. Thats illegal. Messenger Plus! patches the UFiles in memory not directly to the file itself. You on the otherhand are changing the actual file.