Shoutbox

What is the difference between "Idle" and "Away"? Thanks.

Away is the status as you manually set it, Idle is an automated away after a period of inactivity; Messenger shows both as "Away", although you can change that with Resource Hacker. You can read more about it at different between away and idle.

Ok, so when a contact shows as "Away" it might mean he's still there but intentionally set the status as "Away", whereas if it shows "Idle" it means 100% that he's not using the PC, right?
When patching with A-Patch I enabled the option to distinguish between Idle and Away, so some of my contacts now show as Idle and some as Away.

You should find out more if you read the threads that are mentioned in the post I linked you to

Ok, yes . I've read some of those threads and I see that it's not a 100% certainty.
Thanks for the info.