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Could anyone tell me how to change status text in VB.

Sorry, I am not sure what exactly it called.

eg: It shows the song what you are listening in Windows Media Player.

[191 byte] By [wky] at [2007-12-20]
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The field your referring to is the "Personal Status Message" or PSM.
Unfortunately, Messenger doesn't expose an official API (yet) to interact with the current user information (PSM field, nickname, DP).

If it's really important to do, you could use FindWindow and SendMessage to open the settings dialog and change the value from there, but I wouldn't recommend this way.

Another way to change the song currently playing can be found here: http://forums.fanatic.net.nz/index.php?showtopic=11311&st=0
I don't think this allows you to change the PSM though, only the song / artist / icon.

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