Source code for the loadavatars (avatar service plugin) is available via anonymous SVN at: http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/mimplugins/trunk/avs/ You need a SVN client to access this, I recommend TortoiseSVN for Windows which is easy to use and provides a good UI. To compile, you need a complete checkout of Mirandas main source repository and Visual C++ 6 with service pack 6 + the latest platform SDK installed. Project files are provided for Visual C++ 6 and Visual Studio 2005 (aka Visual C++ 8). The sources may compile with Mingw32/GCC, but this is not supported at this time. This plugin for the Miranda Instant messenger is licensed under the GNU General Public License Version 2. The code was written by: Nightwish (silvercircle@gmail.com) (original idea and implementation) Pescuma (major rewrite for version 0.0.2.0 with new request/poll code and most of the image manipulation utilities).