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* Choli has to post here to solve your questions :P

well, Mandorallen is not 100% right but is less wrong than Cookie :P

Let me show you how and where Plus stores its settings and how Plus handles the first sign in of new accounts:

As you know, Plus stores nearly all its settings under HKCU\Software\Patchou\MsgPlus2 in the registry. In that branch of the registry there are several branches with the name of messenger accounts and under those ones there is a section called Preferences where most of the settings of the account are saved.

But, what happens with new accounts? Well, when the user signs in in Messenger with an account that is not in the HKCU\Software\Patchou\MsgPlus2 branch, Plus creates a new sub-branch and copies all the settings under HKCU\Software\Patchou\MsgPlus2\Nobody to the new brach. This is the way that Plus has to get the default initial settings for a new account. And when you select "Default User" in my tweaker you are just changing the settings in HKCU\Software\Patchou\MsgPlus2\Nobody\Preferences . These settings do nothing to existing users... they apply to accounts that have still not signed in.

And now what happens with the wizard? Well, when a user signs in with an account, Plus looks at HKCU\Software\Patchou\MsgPlus2\<email@address>\Preferences\FirstTimeWizard and depending on if the key exists or not, and depending on its value Plus will show or not the configuration wizard.


Putting all this together, you'll see why Mandorallen is right: If you select "default user" and change the setting FirstTimeWizard to False, when a new account signs in, Plus will copy everything under HKCU\Software\Patchou\MsgPlus2\Nobody to HKCU\Software\Patchou\MsgPlus2\<account> and then will look for the key FirstTimeWizard, which will be false and therefore Plus won't show the configuration wizard.


I hope that makes more sense now for everybody :)



On the other hand, there are the problems related to privacy, etc... I won't talk about them. I think everyone is free to do whatever s/he wants on his/her computer, so if Hirakoer wants to change that in his computers at the cibercafe, I thinks he has the right...



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- by HiraKoer on 10-12-2005 at 05:48 PM
RE: COMPLAINT - beginning of msgplus! (es) - by UnduTheGun on 10-12-2005 at 05:54 PM
- by Tochjo on 10-12-2005 at 06:01 PM
- by Millenium_edition on 10-12-2005 at 06:04 PM
- by KeyStorm on 10-12-2005 at 06:08 PM
- by Millenium_edition on 10-12-2005 at 06:09 PM
- by HiraKoer on 10-12-2005 at 06:09 PM
- by Tochjo on 10-12-2005 at 06:10 PM
- by KeyStorm on 10-12-2005 at 06:12 PM
- by Millenium_edition on 10-12-2005 at 06:13 PM
- by KeyStorm on 10-12-2005 at 06:14 PM
- by Tochjo on 10-12-2005 at 06:18 PM
- by HiraKoer on 10-12-2005 at 06:22 PM
- by Millenium_edition on 10-12-2005 at 06:30 PM
- by mandorallen on 10-12-2005 at 09:58 PM
- by CookieRevised on 10-12-2005 at 10:17 PM
- by matty on 10-12-2005 at 10:50 PM
- by mandorallen on 10-12-2005 at 11:14 PM
- by CookieRevised on 10-13-2005 at 12:18 AM
- by L. Coyote on 10-13-2005 at 12:26 AM
- by mandorallen on 10-13-2005 at 12:37 AM
- by CookieRevised on 10-13-2005 at 12:42 AM
- by HiraKoer on 10-13-2005 at 05:19 AM
- by mandorallen on 10-13-2005 at 09:59 AM
- by CookieRevised on 10-13-2005 at 10:13 AM
- by Millenium_edition on 10-13-2005 at 02:22 PM
- by KeyStorm on 10-13-2005 at 08:19 PM
- by mandorallen on 10-13-2005 at 10:12 PM
- by Choli on 10-14-2005 at 11:05 PM
- by CookieRevised on 10-15-2005 at 12:25 AM
- by Choli on 10-15-2005 at 01:05 PM


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