Wednesday, 29 July 2009

Where is MSN Live Messenger's display picture ?


I took a picture the other day when I was using Windows XP to play Red Alert. A few months on I wanted that picture, trouble is it was hard to find. Here is where I found it:

C:\Documents and Settings/_username_/Local Settings/Application Data/Microsoft/Messenger/_username_@live.com/ObjectStore/UserTile/Z0Y25sNrHkA+q2FhJaWh3eJLpntc=.dt2

where _username_ is your windows user account. The cryptic file at the end is the actual picture. I'm not sure what format it is in but renaming it to .jpg seems to work (atleast twitter accepted it and Finder recognizes it).

Ohh, and incase you're on a mac like me and want to get at your picture stored on the windows side of things, here is the path:

where WINXP is the name of my Fat 32 partitioned windows drive.