Shoutbox

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The Ink/handwriting plugin is only for
Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003
It was not designed for Windows 2000, but it may work. This means it is also possible that for your Windows 2000 system it doesn't work!

Read the "readme" that comes within the archive:
Before installing make sure you have the Ink Redistributables from Microsoft installed.
If you have installed InfoPen, these are already installed, else please see the InkRedist directory that you should have gotten with this file.



So, how to install:
1) unzip the file that you downloaded from http://www.msgplus.net/, http://www.mess.be/ or another website into a directory. (The ZIP file should be around 2,44MB big.) When you've unzipped it, you'll find another zip in the directory called inkredist.zip, unzip this one also...

2) Close all instances of MSN Messenger and Windows Messenger you're running completely. This means choosing "exit" when you right click on its icon in the systemtray. Just closing the contactlist window isn't enough.

3) If you don't have InfoPen installed (you probably haven't), then run SETUP.EXE FIRST!!! You'll find this in the ZIP file (inkredist.zip) inside the ZIP file you've downloaded, so unzip this one also... In the setup check the option "for all users".

4) Now run INSTALLER.EXE

the plugin should be installed by now...

5) Restart your MSN Messenger and open up a conversation with someone; you should see some extra tabs beneath the text-area.

Note: The "convert" tab WILL NOT WORK!
Note: After using the Ink Messenges intensively, it is possible that your MSN Messenger screws up. You need to restart MSN Messenger to fix this. There is nothing more you can do...



How to remove/uninstall it:
1) Close all instances of MSN Messenger and Windows Messenger you're running completely. This means choosing "exit" when you right click on its icon in the systemtray. Just closing the contactlist window isn't enough.

2) delete the file MsnHandWriting.dll from your Messenger Plus! Plugins directory. (default directory is: c:\program files\messenger plus! 2\plugins)

If, for some reason, Windows tells you that it couldn't be deleted, make SURE you closed every instance of Messenger in the correct way. If you're SURE you did this, then try to kill the processes:
Open up your Windows Task List (CTRL-ALT-DEL for Windows XP) and:
*for windows 9x/nt look for msnmsgr.exe and msmsgs.exe - end those tasks.
*for windows xp go to the processes tab and look for msnmsgr.exe and msmsgs.exe - end those processes.
Now try to delete MsnHandWriting.dll again...

You can also use the Handwriting DLL uninstaller made by Sk3tch to delete this DLL.

3) Go to add/remove programs in the software tab in your configuration settings. Look for "Ink Redistributables" or "InfoPen", click it and uninstall it.

4) Restart your computer, to make sure everything is completly removed.

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