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Disable Plus! Temporarily by *Saint* on 10-17-2007 at 08:42 PM
I want to test something with Windows Live Messenger without Plus! active, it there as way I can restart messenger without Plus! being active but still installed and intact for I try what I wanted?
RE: Disable Plus! Temporarily by prashker on 10-17-2007 at 08:46 PM
C:\Program Files\Messenger Plus! Live
Rename MsgPlusLiveRes.dll to anything, open WLM.
WLM should now open without Plus, rename the file back to what it should be to reenable Plus 
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RE: Disable Plus! Temporarily by Menthix on 10-17-2007 at 08:48 PM
Go to your Messenger folder (C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Messenger, might be different depending on your version) and find msimg32.dll, rename it to something else, like msimg32.dll2.
msimg32.dll is a file added by Messenger Plus!, it takes care of loading Plus! whenever Live Messenger starts, renaming or deleting it will stop Plus! from loading.
EDIT: Guess Sam's method works too, although in that case Messenger will still load msimg32.dll.
RE: Disable Plus! Temporarily by *Saint* on 10-17-2007 at 08:50 PM
quote:
Originally posted by SonicSam
C:\Program Files\Messenger Plus! Live
Rename MsgPlusLiveRes.dll to anything, open WLM.
WLM should now open without Plus, rename the file back to what it should be to reenable Plus
quote:
Originally posted by MenthiX
Go to your Messenger folder (C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Messenger, might be different depending on your version) and find msimg32.dll, rename it to something else, like msimg32.dll2.
msimg32.dll is a file added by Messenger Plus!, it takes care of loading Plus! whenever Live Messenger starts, renaming or deleting it will stop Plus! from loading.
Thank you both.
RE: Disable Plus! Temporarily by Patchou on 10-18-2007 at 07:36 PM
If you really want to do a test with no part of Plus! loaded at all, the method of MenthiX is the one to follow though.
RE: Disable Plus! Temporarily by riahc4 on 10-21-2007 at 09:58 PM
A shortcut would be good (Example: Hold Ctrl+N+P or customizable after double clicking on the Messenger icon to start WLM)
RE: Disable Plus! Temporarily by vaccination on 10-21-2007 at 10:29 PM
quote:Only problem with that is accidents, amount of people who complain about accidentally locking Messenger, could only get worse
Originally posted by riahc4
A shortcut would be good (Example: Hold Ctrl+N+P or customizable after double clicking on the Messenger icon to start WLM)
On second thoughts, how would a shortcut work anyway? You exit WLM and Plus! renames the file itself? But then, if Plus! is not loaded, you can't use a shortcut to turn it back on again.
RE: Disable Plus! Temporarily by *Saint* on 10-22-2007 at 02:36 AM
I would like an option to disable plus on the next restart for example, no shortcut because people can do that by accident but maybe in the options have a check box, so that it will be disabled next time you exit messenger, or have it automatically restart messenger. I'm not sure how that works, I don't know anything about making programs lol.
RE: Disable Plus! Temporarily by Chris4 on 10-22-2007 at 02:40 AM
I'm sure there was a tick box in the "About Messenger Plus!" in the beta testing period, wasn't there? It disabled it next time you start messenger. Should bring that back.
RE: Disable Plus! Temporarily by John Anderton on 10-22-2007 at 06:08 AM
quote:Yes there was. No they shouldn't. More mistakes by new users and more time spent answering them. Its easier for people to come here/on irc and ask how to disable it than for us to have to tell everyone how to re-enable Plus!
Originally posted by Chris4
I'm sure there was a tick box in the "About Messenger Plus!" in the beta testing period, wasn't there? It disabled it next time you start messenger. Should bring that back.
Though the Plus! beta disabling system was a one time thing, people would still be worried and start asking questions and by people I mean newbies (new users, inexperienced ones).
RE: Disable Plus! Temporarily by Spunky on 10-22-2007 at 09:50 AM
Do what StuffPlug does on the signin window... "Disable MP!L" and they can see that it has been disabled when the restart it
RE: Disable Plus! Temporarily by Patchou on 10-23-2007 at 07:00 AM
Plus! can only be disabled programatically in debug versions.