MSN Messenger defaults in Registry?

[Lee C.]

I just got around to installing MSN Messenger in this thing (2000 Pro).

I find that it opens every time to "online" status, which is not what I'd have wanted. (I'd prefer it retain its "appear offline" setting until I decided to change that, and would actually prefer it defaulted to opening in "offline" status.)
Working on the assumption that this was very likely controlled in the Registry, I went hunting for an entry, key, DWORD value, or something, anything that seemed likely to control this behavior. I can't find anything I recognize as controlling.

Anybody know how to cause MSN Messenger to open in the "appear offline" status in WIN 2000 Pro?

 

[George Hester]

Try the MSN Messenger newsgroup. It's on the server msnews.microsoft.com in the newsgroup public.microsoft.msn.messenger.

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George Hester
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I just got around to installing MSN Messenger in this thing (2000 Pro).

I find that it opens every time to "online" status, which is not what I'd have wanted. (I'd prefer it retain its "appear offline" setting until I decided to change that, and would actually prefer it defaulted to opening in "offline" status.)
Working on the assumption that this was very likely controlled in the Registry, I went hunting for an entry, key, DWORD value, or something, anything that seemed likely to control this behavior. I can't find anything I recognize as controlling.

Anybody know how to cause MSN Messenger to open in the "appear offline" status in WIN 2000 Pro?

 

[Lee C.]

Thanks, I hunted for one and didn't find it originally, so I put the question here. Must have mistyped "messenger" when I sent it on the hunt.

Try the MSN Messenger newsgroup. It's on the server msnews.microsoft.com in the newsgroup public.microsoft.msn.messenger.

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George Hester
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I just got around to installing MSN Messenger in this thing (2000 Pro).

I find that it opens every time to "online" status, which is not what I'd have wanted. (I'd prefer it retain its "appear offline" setting until I decided to change that, and would actually prefer it defaulted to opening in "offline" status.)
Working on the assumption that this was very likely controlled in the Registry, I went hunting for an entry, key, DWORD value, or something, anything that seemed likely to control this behavior. I can't find anything I recognize as controlling.

Anybody know how to cause MSN Messenger to open in the "appear offline" status in WIN 2000 Pro?