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There's a separate Mac version: http://ask-leo.com/d-macmessenger
Posted by: Leo at June 15, 2004 9:33 AMHi Leo! I'm not familiar with MSN Messenger yet. I was hoping that you can help me with this.
1) Is it possible to send an instant message to someone who is off-line? Like in Yahoo messenger? And
2) if the person I'm sending an instant message to, has not installed her Messenger, does this mean I can't communicate with her? But can still add her to my contacts?
3) By the way, Windows Messenger was installed in my XP but I had problems connecting so I downloaded MSN Messenger instead. Will there be any conflict?
Thank you!
1) no.
2) If the other person has not installed messenger, you can't use messenger to communicate with her. You may be able to add her to yoru contacts *if* she already had a account she had used with messenger and plans to use again.
3) No conflicts.
Posted by: Leo at June 23, 2004 10:28 AMFor some reason my msn messenger is not working. I have gone to the website and tried all the suggestions in the "help" section. It used to work fine but when I downloaded 6.2 it started saying "unable to sign in to .NET Messenger Service". At that point I checked the status of the .NET service and it was working fine, and my internet itself was working fine because I was able to sign in to my hotmail accounts with no problems. Please help me out!
Posted by: John at June 25, 2004 9:50 AMI have installed windows messenger 5, but I can not use .NET Messaging Service, only Exchange Instant Messaging.
How do I tweak registry to use both services?
Thanks for completely ignoring my post and answering the ones below it, Leo. Props to you.
Posted by: Star at June 29, 2004 1:22 PMSorry Star, but with the volume of questions and comments comming in every day, I can't guarantee a response to absolutely every entry. In your case (the font color question, I assume), I have no answer for you, so anything I would have posted would not have been helpful.
Sorry.
Posted by: Leo at June 29, 2004 1:52 PMI really want to only run MSN Messenger, not Windows Messenger. However, sometimes Windows Messenger will automatically start up when, like, I sign in to Hotmail and haven't yet started MSN Messenger. The reason this bothers me is that others can then see me online when I dont want them to. Also, for some reason Windows Messenger doesn't show up in my taskbar (though MSN Messenger does), so I am unaware that I have been signed in by Windows Messenger until someone (using either messenger) IM's me. How can I totally prevent Windows Messenger from ever automatically starting??? I'd like to just remove it, since MSN Messenger seems to have more functionality and I KNOW when I have activated it.
Posted by: Jason at June 29, 2004 7:27 PMIf you go to Control Panel, Add Remove Programs, Add/Remove Windows components, you can uninstall windows messenger.
Posted by: Leo at June 29, 2004 9:24 PMI have Windows 2000 professional at work and must use Windows messenger for work's internal Microsoft Exchange Instant Messaging use. I tried to download MSN Messenger 6.2 but it would only allow it if I removed Windows messenger. Can you only run both on XP? And if you can run both on 2000 how do i install one without it uninstalling the other one (very frustrating)
Posted by: JW at June 30, 2004 9:48 PM
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