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Old 01-09-2009   #4 (permalink)
Jonathan Kay [MVP]
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Re: Contact pictures

Hi,

Besides being a bug, it's possible that you'd run out of desktop heap or some other resource
in the system. Well at least it's resolved

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Jonathan Kay
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"Jerome" <Jerome@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:

> Hi Jonathan,
>
> thanks for your reply. It was the gray-coloured empty buddy icon that I saw.
> And yes I'm aware of this new feature of WLM 2009 but it was definitely a
> kind of bug, not a problem of settings.
> Anyway, I closed WLM this evening and started it again and now it seems that
> personal pictures of my contacts are back...
>
> No clue about what happened, maybe I should just restart my computer more
> often!!
>
>
> "Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote:
>
Quote:

>> Greetings Jerome,
>>
>> Is it just the standard gray-coloured empty buddy icon or the just the small coloured
>> square
>> icon? I'm sure you are probably aware of this already, but one of the features of 2009 is
>> that it shows some categories as pictures as opposed to the status squares for the other
>> categories. Is it possible that's what you reseeing?
>>
>> You can configure this by pressing the Alt key on the keyboard, choosing the Tools menu,
>> then
>> Options, then the Layout section and under the Contact list heading will be the options
>> for
>> modifying the defaults.
>>
>> --
>> Jonathan Kay
>> Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
>> MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
>> MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
>> Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
>> (c) 2009 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation
>> --
>>
>> "Jerome" <Jerome@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:3A7ED1BE-A3BD-46B9-B7CB-2FCE44D7249C@xxxxxx
Quote:

>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I've been using Live Messenger 2009 since ~1 month now. Everything works
>> > fine but since a few days I can not see the pictures of my contacts anymore
>> > (in main window. I see them in conversation windows)... Wierd, I did not
>> > change anything. Actually I only see the pictures of my contacts who have
>> > internal WLM pictures, but no "personal" pictures.
>> > Any clue?
>> >
>>
>>
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