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Changing the build of WLM by Poom on 07-04-2006 at 03:38 AM
Does anybody know an easy way to change the build of WLM? Not really chaning anything except the build number. I remember there was a tool to do this somewhere in this forum, but I could not find it. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
RE: Changing the build of WLM by andrewdodd13 on 07-04-2006 at 08:59 AM
[url=http://www.heaventools.com/download.htm]PE Explorer can help you change it, I done it a while back. It's quite a powerful tool though, so it may take a while to find the correct section to edit the build number 
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I can't comment on the tool that was going around this forum, I haven't seen it before.
RE: Changing the build of WLM by Poom on 07-04-2006 at 05:15 PM
Thanks! Although I didn't want a heavy program installed (as I already have a lot), reading through makes me think that this may actually be a great program. =D Seems like I can now find why those DLL's are lying there and here now. Thanks very much.
RE: Changing the build of WLM by Max on 07-04-2006 at 05:35 PM
Download Resource Hacker, open up msnmsgr.exe inside Resource Hacker and you can change the build number through there.
RE: Changing the build of WLM by Poom on 07-04-2006 at 05:38 PM
It seems like PE Explorer is way too advanced for a semi-geek for me to use. >.> Well, I am lazy to start learning programming afterall. I'll try resource hacker then, as I've heard many use of it, but never gotten around to actually trying it.
Update: Yep, this works great. Still doesn't do what I want though.
RE: RE: Changing the build of WLM by CookieRevised on 07-04-2006 at 07:06 PM
quote:Has not much (if not nothing) todo with programming though. You don't need to know one bit about programming to use it... it helps though...
Originally posted by Poom
It seems like PE Explorer is way too advanced for a semi-geek for me to use. >.> Well, I am lazy to start learning programming afterall.
PE Explorer has a resource editor build in. All the rest is of no interest atm.
quote:It does do what you want though, but you probably did something wrong
Originally posted by Poom
I'll try resource hacker then, as I've heard many use of it, but never gotten around to actually trying it.
Update: Yep, this works great. Still doesn't do what I want though.
.The build number is located in the version resource of a file (almost always the last resource in the list). Edit that, recompile the resource table, save the file and you're done.
Note that a build number is stored in several places inside the version resource and each place has its own function. Editing the build number can have serious consequences for messenger itself, and/or for the addons working with it. Be carefull.
PS1: always, always, always make a backup of the file you're going to edit first... did I mention: always?
PS2: PE Explorer lets you edit a few more fields in the version resource than ResHacker can though. But those 'extra' fields are almost always of no interest.