Disabling stupid flash avatars in msn?

A few people I talk to on msn have actually paid for some stupid flash animating
avatars.

These are pissing me off, and they keep reappearing even tho I hide them. Whats
a way to get rid of them for good?

 

Have you tried using amsn instead ?

 

tell them you slept with their girlfriends/sisters <G>

 

Don't use MSN. That should fix it once and for all.

(Well.....YOU asked.)

or use an MSN client that doesn't support them. Like Kopete on Linux.

Joe Friday says: "The text ma'am....Just the text".

 

Hmm, not sure what you are talking about. The 'stupid flash animating
avatars' are probably winks... you don't have to pay for them. Choose
Tools/Options/Messages and disable 'Play winks automatically when they are
received'. This stops them. You still see when one is sent to you, it just
doesn't play.

Perhaps you are talking about the little icons that are associated with the
names... you do pay for dynamic versions of these but they are not done
using flash and they aren't particularly intrusive, however
'Tools/General/Displaying my contacts' has a number of options for
suppressing these too.

You say these options reenable. You are probably doing something that most
people don't such as having multiple profiles, or multiple logins. You will
have to disable these for each login and each profile.

If its not that, then upgrade your Messenger to be the latest version
7.0.0813. It definitely works on that version as I have it installed,
otherwise it is something to do with your own computer being messed up, not
the software.

Pete.

 

I have since found that its called a meego. It shows where the display picture
would. Its definatly using a flash like technology to display them.

I click the arrow to hide the thing, it hides - 5 mins later I look at the
window and its appeared again. I dont like having things that move needlessly on
screen as I keep seeing it out of the corner of my eye.

 

Suddenly, Richard sprang forth and uttered these pithy words:

If you like a more lightweight IM experience, download Miranda. Free,
open source, and can communicate with all the major protocols (MSN, ICQ,
AIM, etc). It's very basic; I like it

 

12 bore

 

Use a different IM with MSN capabilities.

PAM.