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Gandalf;235650 wrote:Without the email associated with the account, you’re up a creek without a paddle.
But you might try registering them as new screen names. According to AOL, they periodically expire inactive screen names, and they become available again for new users.
It’s not the screen name I care about. It’s the contact list associated with it.
Are you telling me that even if the screen name still holds my old information, I will never, ever be able to access it again no matter what I do? AOL/AIM will not allow any other way for me to identify that it is indeed MY screen name?
didn’t help… and i’ve also noticed that now suddenly i’m getting a lot of random browser popups and other annoyances. i installed Adaware and it found a lot of adware/spyware. I am so careful with what goes into this machine. I did not have any problems until I upgraded Messenger Discovery to the latest version.
Sjoerd wrote:Hi verTigoelecTric :),I think the best thing to start with is removing Messenger Plus! and MessengerDiscovery. This way we won’t waste time searching in MSN Messenger itself or somewhere else on your computer when it happens to be caused by one of those plugins.
Greetings,
Sjoerd
I first uninstalled Messenger Discovery, and that didn’t help. I then uninstalled Plus!, that didn’t help. Now i’m uninstalling MSN 6.2 to see if a reinstall will fix the problem.
I also use AIM 5.2 and it will not work for me.I don’t get any error message… and it says “ok, you are idle”, but it isn’t really working. I have my own name on my list, and I don’t appear idle.
Ok nevermind… stupid me. I went into options and I didn’t “allow others to see how long i’ve been idle” LOL
Works fine now…
thanks!
Quote:quote:Originally posted by StarzGurl8o8you know the things next to peoples names like the away message pad…well I figured out how to change the away message pad to what I want…
How did you do that?
I downloaded this program… ran it… logged in… comes up fine… doesn’t crash.
…also doesn’t seem to work. The list was empty and so I figured “ok maybe nobody is invisible”. I had a buddy go invisible. Didn’t come up on the list. I closed the program, had him go invisible again. Reloaded the program. He still didn’t show on the list.
I’m runnin AIM 5.2.3292 with aiMutation v1.2.4 (if it matters).
The concept is great. I particularly have one friend who always goes invisible, but I talk to him often and it’s annoying when I don’t know he’s online. (I also have a really long list of buddies so it’s a pain to scroll down through the ‘offline buddies’ group just to check someone’s info… so if I can get this proggie working that’d be nice!
f0rbez:
Yes, I do have that AOD folder. I’m now in the process of taking steps to remove it. I am about to try out that program you recommended from XEON.someguy03:
Hmm… sure, I’d be happy to explain it to you. It’s a really great way to have easy access to all of your favorite shortcuts/programs/links etc without cluttering your desktop with icons… I’d rather try to explain it realtime, though, so IM me, please. I will also try to IM you first, right away.Thanks for the tip, but unfortunately that doesn’t help me either.
First off, I like to have ‘hidden files and folders’ visible.
Second, the problem isn’t so much the icon ‘showing’ on the desktop. It’s the problem if it moving itself there constantly. I need as few things on the desktop as possible, because rather than having the desktop icons appear on the desktop, I have them set as a toolbar at the top of my screen. If I have too much stuff on my desktop, the icons won’t fit on the toolbar.That’s why I can’t just create a 2nd shortcut to solve this issue…
…besides… I think I’ve even tried that before just out of curiosity, and if I remember correctly, it still moved. I’ll try it again though. Just to see what happens.
Surely there must be an explanation for this… Could it be viral activity on my machine? I have scanned with an updated version of McAfee AV (I used to use Norton, but it didn’t catch a lot of the virii I had, so I switched…) but to no avail.
Any more suggestions? Please, any advice is appreciated. You can imagine my frustration…
No workie…
The stupid little yellow buddy still jumped to my desktop.
Why in the world is this happening? It’s irritating!
I have a few screen names I created out of sheer boredom and there are
a few that you guys can have… anda few you can’t… a few you wouldn’t want… and a few I just want to show you, hehe…iLikeFonts
FindItOnKaZaa
DidYouMean
I3oredom
IvIoleculus
XII verTigo XII
RenameToZIP
NuntiusStatim (roughly means “Instant Message” in latin)
VEI2TIG0
HitF1toContinue
vertigoDirectIM
I eat old tires
AIM ate my Mom
I use AIM 5 2
Ambigram Man
Thine Eldest SonThere are a few others but oh well.
I’ve decided NOT to give away my screen names. Please don’t ask me for any unless you want to offer something useful as a trade.
