MSN Smilies

[Celestial-Todd]

I know you can add a smilie someone uses while in a chat, but does anyone know if they are actually physically stored on your hard-drive?

 

[Winmar]

They must be somewhere. I'd like to know the same thing. If you could find the location and whole load of them, you could dump them in that folder and have them to use at your leisure. Yeah.

 

[Celestial-Todd]

One of my friends just suggested that they are probably stored inside a .dll file and I'm starting to think that is the case. I've scoured my hard-drive and found none of the images on here

 

[Winmar]

Oh I see. What exactly are .dll files? I know there are lots of them, but what do they do?

 

[Celestial-Todd]

Some sort of technical mumbo-jumbo

Yep... I studied I.T for two years to be able to tell you that!

 

[Winmar]

Haha sounds like money well spent!

 

[Celestial-Todd]

Government money well spent

 

[The Amazer]

Am I interrupting your conversation?

P.S :holy: smilile for the win. Can I get it into MSN?

 

[Spruce Goose]

 

[Spruce Goose]

 

[Spruce Goose]

:cunt:

 

[Spruce Goose]

Nope... didn't think that would work

 

[phlogiston]

I don't know the answer, but for what it's worth it won't be a DLL file. DLL stands for "Dynamic Link Library", and they contain the code that you need to run the program (and yes, occasionally the odd picture or two, but they're compiled in). The pictures may well be stored in a binary type file (which means that you won't be able to open them easily) but it would probably be called something other than DLL, like DAT or RES or something like that.

This message has been brought to you by your friendly neighbourhood programmer.

 

[phlogiston]

Cool. I was right. I just did a quick Google for you:

They're stored in:

c:\documents and settings\user\application data\microsoft\msn messenger\account number\custom emoticons

Be sure to turn on show hidden files and folders.

You'll need to rename the extensions from .dat to whatever they are. Try .gif first, if they're animated, they'll be .gif .

I guess if they're not .gif, they be either .jpg or .png

Make sure you copy them out of there first.

 

[Lord Tim]

Rarr, beat me to it! ^^= correct!

You'll also find people's custom user avatars there too.

 

[Celestial-Todd]

I really should have googled before posting the question here I suppose! haha