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May 25th 06, 06:27 AM
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This is most definantly not an urgent question, just one to satisfy my
curiousity. Sometimes my friends have humourous, cute, cool, or otherwise nifty display pictures, and I like to copy them. Printscreen and paint is a pain. So, I found a program that somehow magically turns your contacts' cached display pictures into pngs, that you can save and view at your leisure. However, the program has some nasty spyware in it, and so I don't want to use it. Since I've always been the kind of person who is curious as to how things work, a do it yourself person, I tried to find the cached display pictures, but to no avail. I can find MY cached display pictures. But I cannot find my contacts' display pictures. Where might I find them? 
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May 25th 06, 11:05 PM
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Greetings,
Which version of Messenger are you using (it's different for each version)? -- Jonathan Kay Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger Associate Expert http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/ Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2006 Jonathan Kay. You *must* contact me for redistribution rights. -- "eqdw" wrote in message ... This is most definantly not an urgent question, just one to satisfy my curiousity. Sometimes my friends have humourous, cute, cool, or otherwise nifty display pictures, and I like to copy them. Printscreen and paint is a pain. So, I found a program that somehow magically turns your contacts' cached display pictures into pngs, that you can save and view at your leisure. However, the program has some nasty spyware in it, and so I don't want to use it. Since I've always been the kind of person who is curious as to how things work, a do it yourself person, I tried to find the cached display pictures, but to no avail. I can find MY cached display pictures. But I cannot find my contacts' display pictures. Where might I find them?
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May 26th 06, 08:20 AM
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"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote: Greetings, Which version of Messenger are you using (it's different for each version)? What about Live messenger?
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May 26th 06, 01:57 PM
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I'm not sure of the exact version number, as I'm not home right now, but it's
Version 7.5.x "Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote: Greetings, Which version of Messenger are you using (it's different for each version)? -- Jonathan Kay
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May 26th 06, 08:41 PM
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Greetings,
For Windows Live Messenger, the cache is stored in \Documents and Settings\username\local settings\Temp\MessengerCache. -- Jonathan Kay Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Live Messenger Associate Expert http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/ Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2006 Jonathan Kay. You *must* contact me for redistribution rights. -- "jvi" wrote in message ... "Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote: Greetings, Which version of Messenger are you using (it's different for each version)? What about Live messenger?
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May 26th 06, 08:58 PM
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Hi,
For 7.5 the files are stored in the Temporary Internet Files folder as .DAT files. -- Jonathan Kay Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Live Messenger Associate Expert http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/ Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2006 Jonathan Kay. You *must* contact me for redistribution rights. -- "eqdw" wrote in message ... I'm not sure of the exact version number, as I'm not home right now, but it's Version 7.5.x "Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote: Greetings, Which version of Messenger are you using (it's different for each version)? -- Jonathan Kay
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May 27th 06, 12:30 AM
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I checked there in TIF (under the currently logged in user/local
settings/Temporary internet files). First of all, I found not one .dat file, but a bunch of extensionless files that are being recognized as 'bin files'. Second, a good portion of those bins are from a URL that has "msn" in it somewhere. So, I tried openning them in paint, and sure enough, they were pictures (albiet 96*78 instead of 98*98 like they should be). Also, they are pictures that I do NOT recognize from anywhere. Am I in the right place? Or is something funky going on? "Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote: Hi, For 7.5 the files are stored in the Temporary Internet Files folder as .DAT files. -- Jonathan Kay Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Live Messenger Associate Expert http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/ Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2006 Jonathan Kay. You *must* contact me for redistribution rights. -- "eqdw" wrote in message ... I'm not sure of the exact version number, as I'm not home right now, but it's Version 7.5.x "Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote: Greetings, Which version of Messenger are you using (it's different for each version)? -- Jonathan Kay
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May 27th 06, 06:03 AM
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"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote: Greetings, For Windows Live Messenger, the cache is stored in \Documents and Settings\username\local settings\Temp\MessengerCache. Great, thanks. J.
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