patndoris' blog

Sorry, Old MacDonald moment there. Ahem…back to the subject at hand. Every which way you turn, it seems there are instant messenger betas. Yahoo has one and now Windows Live Messenger does too. I made the decision to test both of these, keeping in mind (of course) betas include bugs.

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WLM stores contact display pictures in a temp file. When you do routine cleanup of files (like a disk cleanup, CCleaner, or other such utility) any contacts with whom you’ve not spoken in over a week, will default to the creepy blue WLM guy for their display picture. Of course, the next time they log in as visible, their picture will return, but I get rather annoyed waiting, so I found a rather convoluted way around it.

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