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I have just finished my patch !!

I hope it will be useful...

With this patch, you can replace "Be right back", Away" or "At phone" (or something like this...) with "Idle" status.

The patch works fine for me, I tested it with my session and my father's session on his computer... no problem, status is "Idle" !!

PLEASE NOTE :
- This patch is, of course, in French (but it's not very hard to translate )
- This patch works only with WLM 8.0.0812 (for the moment...)
- The name of the status in the list will be not changed, just his function !
- DO NOT USE THIS PATCH 2 TIMES (OR MORE )
   1) There's no reason to do that !
   2) The backup will be overwrite with a patched version !
- You use this patch at your own risk (read posts below !!). If there's any problem after having applied this patch, end WLM, go to "(Local Drive):\Program Files\MSN Messenger\", delete 'msnmsgr.exe' and rename 'msnmsgr.exe_BACKUP' to 'msnmsgr.exe' !!!

Download : *Removed*
Use this one : Idle on demand

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Oh, of course, if, for example, you replace "Be right back" with "Idle", when you will use Messenger.MyStatus = 5, status will be "Idle"

lol, months ago i tell how to do that and my post got deleted

its nothing more to find the Status Id you want to get replaced (like In the Call - PHN") and replace it with IDL

side note, the Status that you replace you will not beeing able to see others users on that status

ex: if you replace the in the call, anyone in your contact list that set that status, to you will see it with a normal Online status.

so the best bet is for anyone set to replace the in a call, its the less used status

in that time i also speaked to apatch to intergrate in his patch but because of that problem of the patch status will disapear from others, he chosed to not implent on the patch

so its anyone calls, to lose seeing others status that you replace for your forced idle status

nice work doing the patch KnRd_WC, you set it beeing easy to do it

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Originally posted by TheAngel
side note, the Status that you replace you will not beeing able to see others users on that status

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Oh yeah, you're right ! I did not see it !!

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Originally posted by TheAngel
so the best bet is for anyone set to replace the in a call, its the less used status

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You're right again...

Lol, no, it's not very difficult, just replace "BRB", "AWY" or "PHN" with "IDL" !! But I have nothing to do... so, that made me spend time to create this patch

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Originally posted by TheAngel
nice work doing the patch KnRd_WC, you set it beeing easy to do it

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Thanks !!

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Originally posted by TheAngel
lol, months ago i tell how to do that and my post got deleted

its nothing more to find the Status Id you want to get replaced (like In the Call - PHN") and replace it with IDL

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I dunno about your post getting deleted, but it indeed is all he did. And this is actually exactly what I described as "the only way to do this is to set your status directly using the protocol"....

Note what I thought he was going todo was to manipulate resources. The method he used is something I thought he would even not consider because of that big drawback and thus is actually no 'solution' at all imho.

PS: and that method is years and years old, nothing new.

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Originally posted by TheAngel
side note, the Status that you replace you will not beeing able to see others users on that status

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The method he choosed to do is known since years and it indeed has that serious side-effect, hence why that method is not being used by other tools and addons since years as it actually is a serious drawback.

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EDIT: said all that, there is maybe one way to do it on demand (and without the drawback): patch messenger, set the status, repatch messenger... this can easly be done with a script...

But the only good method is still to inject your own protocol message though.

So, now people are informed of the side effects of this patch !
They will use this patch at their own risks !!! Lol

its quite simple to do it yourself, just change a value on the registry

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Originally posted by Voldemort
its quite simple to do it yourself, just change a value on the registry

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please read this thread and the thread linked to:

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Originally posted by CookieRevised here

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Originally posted by absorbation
Shrbr is making something, he found a registry value to change to idle status and is intergrating it into a script.

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The only idle related Messenger registry value there is is the one which indicates with what status you are going to signin. This is shown and used already 2 months ago in my Remember Status script.

But this is of no use whatsoever to the OP.

Even if you can set a registry value to "idle", that wont do anything good since Messenger does not constantly poll the registry to see if it needs to change the status.

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There is nothing in the registry for this.

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KnRd_WC, as I said here, although your method has major drawbacks and as such I didn't considered it to be usefull before, there is a way to work around those drawbacks and actually make a working script out of it without any disadvantages (other than it would be version dependant).

also note that the method used is still manipulating the protocol as I said from the beginning!

So for KnRd_WC and others who want it, here is a script which will set your status to idle on demand (without the loss of other statusses and without wrong indications in the contact list!):

CookieRevised's reply to "[REQUEST]Idle lies"

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Originally posted by KnRd_WC
- This patch is, of course, in French (but it's not very hard to translate )

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English version !

Nooooooooooooooooooo !!! Do not use my patch !!!!

I think I'm going to remove my post....

I tested CookieRevised's script (Idle on demand)... it works fine, and it's better than my patch which remove "At phone" status !!!
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Arggggghhh !!!

That was so evident !!! If I can make a patch which change "AWY" to "IDL" in the executable, I can make a script (with an external DLL previously created by me, because I don't know how to write in a process in JavaScript ) which will change the value in the process !!.Moreover, I often use TSearch (HexEditor)....

But that's already done by you CookieRevised ! Nice job
I remove my "crappy" patch !! lol