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BUG: certain group names in contact list will seriously screw up your settings :P
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O.P. BUG: certain group names in contact list will seriously screw up your settings :P
OMG.... I just discovered such a stupid bug in WLM that it is simply to lame for words...

Hence why I wouldn't withhold you from knowing it (and laughing at he/she who implemented this; probably an interim or jobstudent :p)

The state of groups (indicated by showing ">", or not showing "^") is stored in the registry so you have exactly the same states the next time you sign in to messenger... So far so good...

It is stored under your personal .NET Passport settings
(HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MSNMessenger\PerPassportSettings\<passportID>... So far so good...

But they are stored as simply and literally the name of the group...
DOH!!!!!!!

This means that if you have a group name for example "AllowBuzz" you actually will toggle the "Allow nudges" setting by showing/not showing the contacts in that group!!

(AllowBuzz is the registry setting for "Allow nudges")

This post was edited on 04-10-2006 at 07:34 PM by CookieRevised.
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04-10-2006 07:33 PM
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BUG: certain group names in contact list will seriously screw up your settings :P - by CookieRevised on 04-10-2006 at 07:33 PM
RE: BUG: certain group names in contact list will seriously screw up your settings :P - by Nathan on 04-10-2006 at 07:39 PM
RE: BUG: certain group names in contact list will seriously screw up your settings :P - by Zahid™ on 04-10-2006 at 08:06 PM
RE: BUG: certain group names in contact list will seriously screw up your settings :P - by L. Coyote on 04-10-2006 at 08:09 PM
RE: BUG: certain group names in contact list will seriously screw up your settings :P - by Dempsey on 04-10-2006 at 08:10 PM
RE: BUG: certain group names in contact list will seriously screw up your settings :P - by Plik on 04-10-2006 at 08:35 PM
RE: BUG: certain group names in contact list will seriously screw up your settings :P - by Sunshine on 04-10-2006 at 08:45 PM
RE: BUG: certain group names in contact list will seriously screw up your settings :P - by Voldemort on 04-10-2006 at 08:45 PM
RE: BUG: certain group names in contact list will seriously screw up your settings :P - by RaceProUK on 04-10-2006 at 08:51 PM
RE: BUG: certain group names in contact list will seriously screw up your settings :P - by Eljay on 04-11-2006 at 07:17 AM
RE: BUG: certain group names in contact list will seriously screw up your settings :P - by Matti on 04-11-2006 at 07:59 AM
RE: BUG: certain group names in contact list will seriously screw up your settings :P - by CookieRevised on 04-11-2006 at 09:59 AM
RE: BUG: certain group names in contact list will seriously screw up your settings :P - by Pyroteq on 04-11-2006 at 10:27 AM
RE: BUG: certain group names in contact list will seriously screw up your settings :P - by John Anderton on 04-11-2006 at 11:32 AM
RE: BUG: certain group names in contact list will seriously screw up your settings :P - by J-Thread on 04-11-2006 at 02:33 PM
RE: BUG: certain group names in contact list will seriously screw up your settings :P - by RaceProUK on 04-11-2006 at 04:19 PM


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