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Originally posted by RaceProUK

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Originally posted by AberNStein
rcclr(1415)

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is probably linking to item 1415 in the Stringtable, so changing that should work too, and you'd only have to change it once

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other things use the same colour. i checked.

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Originally posted by Matty
You are changing the original contents of the file. Thats illegal. Messenger Plus! patches the UFiles in memory not directly to the file itself. You on the otherhand are changing the actual file.

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What a trivial difference.

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Originally posted by Mushroom_Man

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Originally posted by Matty
You are changing the original contents of the file. Thats illegal. Messenger Plus! patches the UFiles in memory not directly to the file itself. You on the otherhand are changing the actual file.

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What a trivial difference.

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Well, what Messenger Plus! does is hook itself to Windows Live Messenger, it doesn't actually change any of the files in Windows Live Messenger at all, it has it's on .exe file, it's own .dll files etc. All it does is search for the installed Windows Live Messenger, and attach itself every time Windows Live Messenger is started. Whereas, using software like reshack modifies the .exe file and the .dll files, which are propery of Microsoft, even when they are on your computer. When pressing "I accept" during installation, you accept that you will not modify any of these files. It's the equivelant of signing a contract, by doing what AberN Stein has suggested would be to break this contract, therefore breaking also breaking the law by editing copyrighted files.

Sorry if I've repeated anything previously in the thread, I just thought that Mushroom_Man hadn't understood, so I thought I could explain it in a simpler form.

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Originally posted by Mushroom_Man
What a trivial difference.

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I like to think so.
My method is effectively a really minor skin.

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Originally posted by Mushroom_Man
What a trivial difference.

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The difference is far from trivial. Memory patching is legal, as it doesn't even touch the files. Hell, the Windows loader uses memory patching when loading all the DLLs a process needs!

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Originally posted by AberNStein

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Originally posted by Mushroom_Man
What a trivial difference.

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I like to think so.
My method is effectively a really minor skin.

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a really minor skin --- that modifies messenger.

not that i care in any way about the eula, but get your facts straight.