Where does Messenger store display pics?

[CreeperKamikaze]

I know Windows Live Messenger has to cache the display pics somewhere because
I can still select them even though the original file may have been deleted
from my computer, but my question is where does it store them?

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Greetings,

It is stored in %appdata%\Microsoft\MSN Messenger\passportid\UserTile.

Where %appdata% is Documents and Settings\Application Data\ and passportid is a numeric
representation of your Passport.

They'll show up .DAT files but they're really PNGs.


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"CreeperKamikaze" > wrote in message
...
>I know Windows Live Messenger has to cache the display pics somewhere because
> I can still select them even though the original file may have been deleted
> from my computer, but my question is where does it store them?