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.dt2 file associated with a
"wink". The .swf file
provides the animation associated with a wink. The .swf
file can be extracted from the .dt2 file using Microsoft's
expand utility.
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At
How to uninstall Windows Live Essentials, there was a suggestion to
try removing the program by running wlarp.exe from
%programfiles%\Windows Live\Installer, but, though that directory
existed, that file was not in it.
So I downloaded Windows Live Essentials 2011 from
Windows
Live Essentials 2011 - Download free Microsoft programs.
The file that was downloaded was wlsetup-web.exe. When I
reinstalled the software using that file, the problem no longer existed.
C:\Users\acctname\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Messenger\user@example.com\ObjectStore\CustomEmoticons
directory on a Windows 7 system. For the directory path acctname is the
particular Windows account. The email
address used for logging into Windows Live Messenger would appear in place
of user@example.com. The equivalent directory on the Windows XP
system from which I was going to copy the custom icons was
\Documents and Settings\acctname\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Messenger\user@example.com\ObjectStore\CustomEmoticons.
The directory contained .dt2 and .id2 files.
When I checked .dt2 files with
FileAlyzer, I found that they were actually
GIF files. Most were
GIF89a files, but some were GIF87a files as is revealed by the first 6
bytes in the files. GIF89a files have 47 49 46 38 39 61 as
the first six bytes in the files while GIF87a files have
47 49 46 38 37 61 as the first six bytes. If you change the
extension on a file from .dt2 to .gif, you can view the file with an
image viewing program.
There is a .dt2 and .id2 file for each emoticon with names similar to the example shown below.
ZysU6LltaOP0MVYOBvV4YcbnHr4=.dt2
ZysU6LltaOP0MVYOBvV4YcbnHr4=.id2
These are associated with the emoticons you see in the Custom emoticons section when you select an emoticon within Windows Live Messenger.
I was able to transfer all of the custom icons for Windows Live Messenger
from the Windows XP system to the Windows 7 system, by copying all the
files in the CustomIcons folder on the Windows XP system to
that folder on the Windows 7 system. Where the files already exist, you can
choose to skip or copy over those files.
Note: if you have Windows Live Messenger open on the destination system at the time you copy the files to it, you will need to close all Windows Live Messenger windows and close the program and then reopen it to see the custom icons you copied.
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scenes.mct file, usually in C:\Program
Files\Windows Live\Messenger. If you want to create your own
"scene" for use with Windows Live Messenger, you may want to create
the image in a size that matches what is used for the scenes in
scenes.mct, which is just a
CAB file
containing graphics files
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When the system rebooted, Windows Messenger 4.7 opened. I didn't want the software on this laptop anyway. So I opened the Control Panel (Click on Start, select Settings, then Control Panel). Under Add or Remove Programs in the Control Panel, I chose Add/Remove Windows Components. Windows Messenger was unchecked and had a size of 0.0 MB listed, so I couldn.t uninstall it that way. I was able to remove it using the steps below, however:
RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection
%windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.RemoveTo remove Messenger, you must first exit from it: Click the Messenger icon in the taskbar, then Exit. Please also close all other programs that display your contact list (for example, Internet Explorer, Outlook, Outlook Express, MSN Explorer). Make sure to close programs for all users signed in to this computer. Do you want to continue?
You will see a notice appear stating Windows Messenger has been removed when the uninstall process completes.
If you don't want to remove Windows Messenger 4.7, but just want to stop it from running automatically when you login to a system, instead of following the procedure above, open Windows Messenger and take the following steps:
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