Marshall writes in to ask about how he can retreive some pictures that he added to MSN Messenger as Display Pics because he has lost the original pictures and wants to retreive the ones he still has as MSN Display Pictures.

Unfortunately it will not be possible to retreive the exact original images, but it is possible to extract the Display Picture versions, if they are still present in MSN Messenger.

The CE/DP Backup Wizard is a tool for MSN Messenger that allows you to extract the Emoticons, Display Pictures and Backgrounds that you added to your MSN Messenger account. You can use this simple tool to retreive the Display Pictures from MSN Messenger, although the saved pictures will be the same size as visible in Messenger, and not the same as the original picture.

Download CE/DP Backup Wizard

Once you download the CE/DP Backup Wizard for MSN Messenger, just run the wizard to extract your MSN Emoticons and Display Pics.

You will need to enter the email address of the account that you would like to extract the display pictures from. This means if you want to extract the Display Pictures from the account bob@hotmail.com, you just enter that email in the wizard.

You will then need to select a folder where all the extracted pictures will be saved. Once you are done with the wizard, you can use the images from the folder in which they were saved.