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O.P. Permanently Change the Systray Icon
Hi, I hope I'm not asking a question that's been answered many times before, but I've searched everywhere and just can't find an answer to this simple question :S

Is there a way to permanently change the default systray icon for MSN Messenger 7.5?  I've reshacked all the icons in the .exe, but the systray icon is still the man with the butterfly!  I've very anal about all my icons matching and wanna get this changed.

I know that Plus! changes it with the boss protection mode, but is it just possible to keep it changed all the time?  Any help would be appreciated greatly, thank you!
06-03-2006 06:38 PM
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RE: Permanently Change the Systray Icon
You probably didn't look well enough then, 'cause its in the resources..
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06-03-2006 06:45 PM
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O.P. RE: Permanently Change the Systray Icon
I changed every single icon resource o.O

Is it a PNG or something to that avail? I'm not stupid by far :P, but I can't find which resource it is...Could you point me in the right direction?
06-03-2006 06:52 PM
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RE: Permanently Change the Systray Icon
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Is it a PNG or something to that avail?
I think they are Bitmaps.
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06-03-2006 06:57 PM
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O.P. RE: Permanently Change the Systray Icon
The systray icon?  The one that sits next to the clock? It can't be :3.
06-03-2006 07:01 PM
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Bitmaps: Not too many bitmaps either, the system tray images and the scrollbar images are found here.
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06-03-2006 07:10 PM
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O.P. RE: Permanently Change the Systray Icon
Doing so that way doesn't allow you to use alpha transparent images, unlike the method Boss Mode does in Plus! >.<

Is there a way to do it like Boss Mode does it?
06-03-2006 07:27 PM
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RE: Permanently Change the Systray Icon
I am guessing Boss mode hooks the Shell_NotifyIcon function and catches the NOTIFYICONDATA structure.  To change the icon you would need to change the hIcon member of that structure and call Shell_NotifyIcon again with the NIM_MODIFY command.
06-05-2006 02:17 AM
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RE: Permanently Change the Systray Icon
I'm not exactly sure which bitmap it is, but there's not that many to choose from.

You can make it transparent. Whatever area you want to be transparent, fill it in with that pink colour you see in the bitmaps, that's where the images are transparent. Then save it in the proper format.
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RE: RE: Permanently Change the Systray Icon
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Doing so that way doesn't allow you to use alpha transparent images, unlike the method Boss Mode does in Plus! >.<
That's correct, but there's no other way to do it by reshacking msnmsgr.exe. :(
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