A girl on my Pal list will not divulge how she manages to write what is pretty much an essay when creating her own away messages. For the rest of us it seems we can only use 50 characters. Anybody any idea what trick is needed so that I may be able to extend beyond 50 characters when leaving an away message??

Thanks in advance

First u have to make an away message that is within the 50 character limit.

Then go to the Start menu of ur PC. Click "run"...type "regedit" without the quotes and click "OK". Then when regedit opens up, click HKEY_CURRENT_USER.

Then click Software....then click Paltalk....then u will see a list of the niks on ur PC. Click the nik that has the away message u want to edit. under that should appear "custom away Messages" and below that, the message u made. right click the message and click rename and type in ur message......

u can make it as long as u want it to be.....mine is up to 200 characters so far and i dont know what the limit is....lol

Wow thanks,,,,,,,,,just tried it now,,,,,,,,,,,,brill. Just out of interest do you know is there some way of doing summat to permanently change amount of characters used instead of going into the registry each time.........? Anyway whatever the answer thanks for your help I been trying to suss this one out of ages...........Cheers?!

YeaAnd wrote:First u have to make an away message that is within the 50 character limit.

Then go to the Start menu of ur PC. Click "run"...type "regedit" without the quotes and click "OK". Then when regedit opens up, click HKEY_CURRENT_USER.

Then click Software....then click Paltalk....then u will see a list of the niks on ur PC. Click the nik that has the away message u want to edit. under that should appear "custom away Messages" and below that, the message u made. right click the message and click rename and type in ur message......

u can make it as long as u want it to be.....mine is up to 200 characters so far and i dont know what the limit is....lol

IT DONT WORK FOR ME MEN THIS IS WHAT I DID GO TO START CILCK ON RUN PUT IN THE regedit A LIL BOX COMES UP AND IT SAYS CLOSE AND IGNORE AND ITS NOT WORKING IF I HIT IGNORE IT COMES RIGHT BACK SO WHAT DO I DO ???

Is it that u are having a problem opening the regedit? If so, then try going to C:\WINDOWS\REGEDIT and run the Registry Editor from there.

it's not working for me.. i rename it in the registry and it keeps saying message is too long...

i dont know.....it worked for me.....

beware if u mess wid ur registry ur pc or laptop could me fu**ked up forever n u will be doomed. jus a advice

beware if u mess wid ur registry ur pc or laptop could me fu**ked up forever n u will be doomed. jus a advice

yea the limit is like 200 or just over...mine is at about 203 i think

hm i see ppl using 600 characters believe or not and when i asked them they said " well i just typed " so they aint pc worms...

hmm weird.. pal needs to fix that bug lol

I followed step by step ,It didn't work as long as it used to be. I dunno why?

Can anybody help?
Thanks

while it was myself that posted the original question and found the method of playing in the registry worked great for me.......................found it wont play ball for me in this new Pal 9...............i write as much as i like in the registry which shows the full message but as soon as i got to my away message next to my name it still cuts down to 50 characters. Any ideas as to whats changed for Pal 9?

its the program now, it wont display more than 50 chars.

goodbye good ol trick