Shoutbox

Hello I was just wondering if there is any way to remove that horrible gray dot that you now see before every message you send in Windows Live Messenger 2009?

Thank you in advance

(I saw this on Yahoo, but I have no idea where to find this ID 1749 thingamajig LOL.)

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change the image id on the program folder (ID 1749 with either a blank 12x7 box

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  On Yahoo...

I think it is a file, and you have to replace the contents or whatever of the file for a 12X7 pic, so basically, you are just replacing the gray dot with another picture of your choice.

Hehe yeah I understood that much

But I can't seem to find the mentioned file anywhere?

You can do that with skinning, but you can also enable the old way. Tools-Options-Messages-Group messages... It may be different, I'm not using the english messenger

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Originally posted by Suzy83
(I saw this on Yahoo, but I have no idea where to find this ID 1749 thingamajig LOL.)

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The ID 1749 is the one you've got to replace via skinning so that you get no dot at all =P

Only way is via skinning, it is really too dumb not to offer an option to disable it in Messenger's options. A-patch offered a feature to remove it but not anymore.

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Originally posted by robert_dll
You can do that with skinning, but you can also enable the old way. Tools-Options-Messages-Group messages... It may be different, I'm not using the english messenger

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There is no option or group of Group Messages in the English WLM.

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Originally posted by Joshua

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Originally posted by robert_dll
You can do that with skinning, but you can also enable the old way. Tools-Options-Messages-Group messages... It may be different, I'm not using the english messenger

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There is no option or group of Group Messages in the English WLM.

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Yes there is....exactly where he said it

"Group sequential messages from each contact together"

That just means that any messages sent one after the other without interruption won't have a dot, eg:

Contact 1 says:
*hello
what are you up to?
can i come over?

Contact 2 says:
*hey
sure, I'm not doing anything

Contact 1 says:
*okay, cool

Contact 2 says:
*see you soon
xx

skinning is really the only way to completely remove the dot

Nope, I've just tried unchecking that option, but it still comes out as a DOT..

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Originally posted by Joshua
Nope, I've just tried unchecking that option, but it still comes out as a DOT..

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hmm, fair enough....i must've remembered wrong then

i've got mine removed via a custom skin i've done so can't check it out using that method