well ive found out how i just havent found out how to hide the lil email icon yet though.. i'll keep trying



if you want it:
read AndreY's post

yay! ive hidden the email icon aswell

if you know how to work with ResHacker you can erase the email icon, it's number 408 in Bitmap

is this modified language dll compatible with translated msn messenger version? it seems to be english only

umm, no that's only english

can you explain how to modify msglang.dll manually using resource hacker?
so I can remove email link and icon as well on other language dll too
thanks

or if you can create a patch for that thanks in advance

To hide the text:
1. Exit MSN Messenger completely.

2. Backup your original msglang.dll file (Copy it and rename the copy to msglang.dll.original or something else)

3. Open msglang.dll in Reshack (Resource Hacker)

4. Scroll to [String Table : 26 : 1033*] By clicking on the [+] near "String Table" and the [+] near "26" and on the "1033*"
(*in the english version. This number is different for each language)

5. You will see:
STRINGTABLE
LANGUAGE LANG_YOURLANGUAGE, SUBLANG_YOURLANGUAGE
{
401,     "%1!d! new E-Mails"
402,     "No new E-Mails"
403,     "1 new E-Mail"
404,     "Go to \"E-Mail Inbox\""
405, ........

The text between the " " depends on which language you have.

6. Change the lines 401-404 to:
401,     " "
402,     " "
403,     " "
404,     " "

Or:
Delete the lines 401-404, because changing it to " " still shows a dot.
(The link will still be there, just the text is gone.)

7. Save the changes by clicking on "Compile Script" and in the menu "File" click on "Save"


To hide the envelope:
1. Exit MSN Messenger completely.

2. Open msnmsgr.exe in Reshack (always create a backup!)

3. Scroll to [Bitmap : 408 : 1033*]

4. Open the menu "Action -> Replace Bitmap" and replace it with this file .

5. Save the changes by clicking on "Save" in the "File"menu.


Reopen Messenger and sign in...
Tadaa ! Icon and text are gone

Note: Modifying the resources of MSN Messenger is illegal.

Making a patch for that is probably too complicated / not possible because the msglang.dll is different for each language. You can change it yourself easily.

Oh, and Jaguar: Please don't double-post. Edit.

thanx for explaining all that AndreY

yeah sorry about the double post, i thought i saw a post under my first post but there wasnt

but doesn't this leave a large gap there, wouldn't this look quite bad I Prefer it the way it is, it would just look messed up otherwise and out of place, anyway, isn't doing that illegal?

i took away my instructions cause uploading that dll would have been illegal, but if this is illegal; hiding something that you dont use anyway, then isnt hiding the advertisment banner illegal aswell?

no cos it doesnt modify the exe

it modifies a DLL, same thing really...

i was talking about Plus!, that doenst modify any dlls