Re: Display picture

Greetings,

Messenger loads display pictures "on demand". As such, if you open someone's conversation
window, it will grab the display picture. If they sign out and back in (thereby creating a
toast/alert), Messenger will grab the display picture. If you look at someone's contact
card, Messenger will grab the display picture.

But, if you've just logged in it does not grab the display pictures of everyone signed in
(obviously due to the bandwidth issues involved) -- it simply uses the cached versions of the
display pictures (where available) as Kristan has already mentioned.

So to answer your question directly, the "green man" simply means that either they don't have
a display picture or your client hasn't grabbed it yet and there is no cached version
available on your PC.

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"Milky Way" <MilkyWay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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But i don't understand why MSN would selectively show some people's display
picture and some would just be the 'green msn person'?
What does it mean if a person's display picture is not shown and just
appears as the 'green msn person' on my online list (unless i open their
conversation window and start talking to them)?

Thanks!


"Kristan Kenney" wrote:

MSN Messenger caches your contacts display pictures, so sometimes when you
sign in you may see an online contacts old (or new) display picture.

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