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that sounds like your aim.odl file….. it probably had a variant of deadaim in it still… most likely all you had to do is open your aim.odl file in notepad and erase the line telling it to open deadaim.ocm
You know that for the future 🙂
David wrote:Have you actually tried this? I don’t think removing the dialog will actually stop it from trying to update. If anything, it won’t open at all – or will error when it calls the code to display the dialog.Yes, I have tried it and it works. I wouldnt have posted that long post if it didnt work 😉
On those links, they can copy the URL in the link of your profile into their browser and then just edit their screen name off of the URL and add some whack name. It’s somebody who doesnt want you to know their screen name… I don’t blame them… I dont like anything recording my screen name onto profiles.
In other cases, someone can just have a trillion and one screen names and be using them all and clicking your link and just have it so only people on their buddy list can see that they are on. But I think my first assumption is correct.
I wouldn’t worry about it. It’s just someone trying to protect their privacy.
***WARNING BEFORE YOU TRY THIS, PLEASE MAKE A COPY OF YOUR CURRENT AIMRES.DLL IN YOUR MAIN AIM FOLDER.***
To do this:
1. Browse to C:Program FilesAIM
2. Find AIMRES.DLL and right click it.
3. Hit Copy
4. Right click anywhere and hit paste
5. You should now have a file called “Copy_Of_AIMRES.dll” or something of that nature.
6. Should anything go wrong in the process of editing your AIMRES.dll file, you may delete that file you edited and restore this copy by renaming it back to “aimres.dll”you need to get a free utility called reshack… you can download that at
http://delphi.icm.edu.pl/ftp/tools/ResHack.zipWhen you download and extract the zip file, run the reshack.exe and go to file—> open.
Browse to your aim directory and find aimres.dll
When you get that open,
Go to the dialog folder and look for the 264 folder inside the dialog folder. (Dialog 264)
Right Click 1033 and hit delete (in Dialog 264)
Save AIMres.dll in your aim folder and replace the existing aimres.dll (in order for it to allow you to save, you must totally be exited from AIM everytime you save, right click the aim dude by the clock and exit AIM.)
That should remove it.
This is solely your choice to be editing your aim files, so if something goes wrong, I am not one to blame. Just a little warning. But rest assure, the worst case could happen is that AIM just couldnt open. That’s why I had you make a back up of the aimres.dll file in case something went wrong 🙂
Good luck, man
yeah? it’s funny because most schools block java applets…… maybe my school is just more strict than everyone else’s…
Yeah this is true… but if you can get on the program and use it just by renaming it to calc is called a lame filter on your school’s behalf.
I thought of this idea a while ago without renaming the file and the program opened fine. Go to sign on, come to find out that the lame filter blocked port 5190 or whatever terraim uses to sign on…. which I assume is the default 5190…
I finally gave up… because my school’s filter system is lame. it blocks keywords in the title or content in the page. so if the page had “The aim of our company is to provide great service”, guess what… it’d get blocked because it has AIM in it.
I personally have talked with the developer of terraim (because I am in the process of helping him make some skins for the new release or whatever) and I will ask him about adding an option regarding changing the port used to sign on… but I have a feeling that my school will prob still block that too….
P.S. i’d so use terraim over aim express…. but that’s just my opinion 😉
