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RE: Desktop contacts, tabs not updating
I can confirm this problem with Messenger Plus! Live 4.01.0.240 and Windows Live Messenger 8.0.0792.00 on Windows XP SP2.
It appears that the desktop contacts update appears in relation to some user-induced action that may be registered by msgplus. The same problem is actually present in the tabbed chat windows icons too, so it appears to be a "deeper" msgplus problem (i.e. the tabbed chat icons go both online and offline at the same time as desktop contacts - and both are wrong about the time when this happens, they are always late).
The recipe for refreshing msgplus on this matter is first closing the contact's window (regardless if she just came online or went offline) and then:
a) opening a new chat window from within messenger's main window if the contact just came online, or
b) opening a new chat window from the desktop contact if the contact just went offline. In the tabbed chat window, it immediately goes offline, but the desktop contact will stay unchanged until you remove your mouse from it. But this is rather a graphical issue and not nearly as evil as the main issue.
For the desktop contacts feature, I would describe this problem as critical/major/blocker, as it completely destroys the functionality and purpose of the feature, since (at least for me) this feature's purpose is: to help identify important contacts when they are online.
Hope this description helps,
-- Irfy
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