Now i see where wlcomm.exe
comes from. Now it should be easy for @valtron to supply patched versions of the installer rather than get users to either patch it themselves, use a program to automate the patching, or supply the separate files users have to replace.
If you’re not in the know, I have plans for that with one of my projects,“The Patchening” (stupid name, I know ), but when I did try patching that, with MSN 7.5 as my testing version, it wouldn’t even login when told to, so I went with XP for the time being, since that doesn’t use the
ppcrlconfig
DLL and instead queries the SRF. I also may have miscalculated certain things with initial testing, so I’ll setup everything properly when I can make some actual progress.
And we did utilize Detours-style patching at one point, with our program “MSN Switcher”, but I guess @valtron wanted to uninvolve separate programs doing the patching work later on in Escargot’s life, and instead supply pre-patched versions along with manual patching instructions to make setup less bulky, in a way.