I've had this problem since day 1 really but haven't bothered to try sort it till now...
Q: when i logon all my contacts show with the default Display Picture which doesn't change unless i open a chat window which then updates the picture...is this normal or is something wrong?
i remember with old MSN messenger you'd log on and it would update all the display pictures of people online without doing anything....
I've had this same issue for a while. Can't really say when it started. If you single-click on the contact, the profile pic comes up after a few seconds, then it's there until you sign out.
Haven't found anything anywhere on the interent discussing this problem and until now I thought I might be the only one experiencing it!
I'm using Live Messenger 8.5.1302.1018 and Messenger Plus! Live version 4.70.0.334, on Windows Vista Business SP1.
Love to get this fixed!
-Andy.
This post was edited on 01-30-2009 at 05:07 PM by Meestor_X.
One simple solution would be to upgrade to version 9.0 which was released a couple of weeks ago. I've noticed this problem before, but the display pictures have always been up to date in the contact list since I started using the 9.0 beta.
The problem's even worse with Beta 9.
The contact display pics ONLY show up in the conversation window. I can't see any way to get them to show up in the contact list. (There's no "Display Details" checkbox in the menus that I can find... I've tried all sizes of contact pics... Maybe I'm missing a setting?