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Ehtyar
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O.P. Portable Messenger Plus Anyone?
Hi all.
I have been working on a portable version of msn 7.5 today, and I'd like to include Messenger Plus with it. I have moved the registry keys with Messenger Plus, and they are changed each time the program is run to match the current drive/folder its in. This prevents the "not installed" error, but plus does not seem to hook correctly anymore. I get the option to fix and restart messenger, or permanantly fix the problem before next reboot. I would appreciate any info or input on this project from any members of the forum, if this is allowed. If anyone has a problem with me making a portable version of Messenger Plus, please say so and i will discontinue my efforts, but if not, please feel free to suggest anything that might help.

Thanks very much, Ehtyar.
02-28-2007 11:07 PM
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RE: Portable Messenger Plus Anyone?
Well, I am not sure if Patchou wants this, I hope he can answer.

But what I do know, is that that would be a really nice thing. (Y)

Good luck with the project anyway!.
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Probably not since most of the settings are in the registry.
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O.P. RE: Portable Messenger Plus Anyone?
The settings are not a problem, they have been transfered no problem. I will probably need a developers help for this, considering the problem appears to lie in the hooking procedures. Once again, any help is appreciated, and thanks for the nice comments Nitro :)

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RE: Portable Messenger Plus Anyone?
what exactly do you mean by "portable" ? what's the hardware you're using and with what Windows? thanks :)
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I think it would be cool to have a Messenger Plus Portable :) And Patchoui think they mean put it into a USB and use it with Portable MSN Messenger (Windows Live Messenger)
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what exactly do you mean by "portable" ? what's the hardware you're using and with what Windows? thanks :)
a portable application is something you can put on a memory stick or whatever and be able to run the program from any computer, keeping all of the settings and files for the program necessary to run within one folder.

there's some example applications at http://www.portableapps.com/ I use the portable firefox while I'm at school, to keep my addons, cookies, favourites and whatnot from disappearing every time I log on.

Ehtyar is looking to make such an app out of MsgPlus 3.43 by the looks of it. (alongside MSN 7.5)

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03-01-2007 02:50 AM
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O.P. RE: Portable Messenger Plus Anyone?
Indeed Shadow :) I'm surprised I'm getting such a positive response to all this. Patchou, the problem is not that msgplus does not function properly on my platform (but just in case, I'm running on a windows xp pro sp2 virtual machine (vmware)) because it runs when i use it before moving the files to a blank vm, but that it seems when i move msg plus from one machine to a clean one, it's either missing something, or something is mis configured, and it no longer functions. This is despite all the files and registry keys i can find being brought along with it.

Hope this helps, Ehtyar.

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oh! ok, I didn't understand what you meant. I'll see what I can do about this. Currently, Messenger Plus! just needs the proper entries in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE to find its files, I guess I could check a ini file (however, for the settings that are supposed to go in HKEY_CURRENT_USER, I couldn't do much so your prefs would evaporate if HKCU is erased).
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