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Comment from Dan on 2009-09-17

2009-09-18T06:58:07Z

I have Win XP SP3. I tried the above suggestion but it did'nt work becoz there is no box to un-check.
However, I was able to remove the setting (automatic Windows Messenger sign in) by doing the following:
Open Control panel > click User Account > click your Account > In Related Tasks, click Manage my network passwords > highlight the email address you want to delete then click Remove.(don't worry this will NOT delete your Passport Net). Then Close.

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Comment from Margaret on 2009-05-25

2009-05-26T05:02:12Z

I also have an old version of windows and i cant stop it from signing me in automatically.
I went to Options and general and it doesnt say automatically run messenger when i log on to windows?

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Comment from Kelly on 2009-04-11

2009-04-11T20:43:29Z

I have Windows Live Messenger installed on my computer, and no longer need it. It pops up every time I turn my computer on, so why deal with that when I can deactivate it? The problem is this: How do you deactivate it all? I am struggling to find the solution.

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Comment from tayla on 2009-04-08

2009-04-08T07:50:28Z

i have re-downloaded the new windows live messenger 3 times and everytime i sign into it, it keeps signing me out after 10 or so seconds. help!

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Comment from sheila on 2009-03-23

2009-03-23T22:48:28Z

i installed Windows Live Messenger. It was giving me problems so attempted to unistall all from the Add/Remove (Windows Live). Now I have come to the add/remove Windows Live Essentials and this will not unistall. I am a newbie at this and finding this so upsetting. Is there assistance that I can apply to correct and delete all of Windows live Messenger? thank you

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Comment from Kayleighh on 2009-02-19

2009-02-19T20:35:48Z

Arghh!
As soon as i sign in my msn.. it will sign me in for about 10 seconds and then it signs straight back out!!!
I've tried un installing msn and Re-installing it but its still not worked!
Its soo annoying!

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Comment from Josh on 2009-02-18

2009-02-18T21:49:26Z

I've done this and it still pops up (not logs me in) when i check my e-mail.

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Comment from jean on 2009-02-13

2009-02-14T04:19:12Z

i tried logging my freind out but it didnt work nd all her friends keep talking to me nd i can get it to stop + wen i went in to Tools then Options there was no general i no how to use the new msn versions it's just my freind loggeged into the old one the standard one that comes with the windows program one more thing i cant seem to get to her msn home page so it's logged on but it sais it's not....anything to help would be good

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Comment from gary w parker on 2008-11-06

2008-11-07T05:56:47Z

I told MSN.com to stop asking me "do you want msn to remember your login info" on a site that i log into often. How do i turn it back on?

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Comment from mehak sultana on 2008-10-05

2008-10-05T18:11:28Z

i have a problem "i want to deactivate ma messenger alerts on to ma phone " i have once activated on to ma mobile n now iam fed of gettin unneccessary messaged on to ma mobile " plz help how to deactivate the service"

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Comment from Baldvin on 2008-09-10

2008-09-10T19:22:53Z

Weird things happening here. Well when i first saw that "You have signed in on another computer" I thought that it could be on my friends computer but she lives abroad so i just thought i would change my password. At first it didn´t happen for awhile and then again today it said I was signed in somewhere else. Problem is I havent signed in on any other computer than mine since changing the password, so I tried changing it again and then by accident pressed sign in with all the boxes ticked from before i changed it and it signed in on my OLD password.the one i just changed, so that tells me if you dont uncheck it manually it will keep on signing in somewhere else even if you have changed your password. I swear i dont know what to do.

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Comment from I hate myself. D: on 2008-08-24

2008-08-24T21:47:51Z

Okay, so I was tired of my msn messenger signing me in automatically. So, I accidently deleted the shortcut to get to msn. I was trying to find a way to make it stop signing in. But then, I found out how to change the sign in settings or whatever. So, now my msn won't sign in, but I don't know how to get to it because I deleted the shortcut. What do I do???

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Comment from Robert on 2008-08-01

2008-08-01T15:52:59Z

how do I stop MSNBC News auto feed to my mail folder "unread feeds" .. it is filling up to to the 100s

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Comment from S on 2008-07-11

2008-07-12T00:36:30Z

I'm trying to follow your instructions to stop ninemsn from automatically logging in when I turn my computer on, but not being a terribly computer literate I am having trouble following your prompts - the only 'tools' I can find gives 'internet options' not options and if I choose that and go to 'general' I do not get UNcheck "Automatically run messenger when I log on to Windows", and "Allow automatic sign in when connected to the Internet".
I have Windows XP, does that make a difference to the instructions?

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Comment from Halima on 2008-07-10

2008-07-10T13:59:19Z

I have a question.

I share a computer and want to ask about the sign in alerts appearing. It I am not online on messenger, will the person I share the computer with be able to see if someone of my contacts are signing in ??? This is really bothering me, so please I need an answer.

Thank you

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Comment from Marla on 2008-06-26

2008-06-26T19:50:58Z

hi leo i took your advice on the msn messenger signing me in automatically but it is still doing it, im worried cause its my work computer..

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Comment from Anja on 2008-05-04

2008-05-04T08:18:17Z

hello

In your instructions it says: "Now at this point you'll see that Messenger may still remembers who you are, AND remembers your password. So UNcheck: Remember Me, Remember my Password and Sign me in automatically."
But where do I uncheck this - I cannot find the option to opt out of the automatic sign in, the only thing I could do is stop it from automatically open when I run windows but somehow it still signs me in.

Thanks

Anja

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Comment from Rupert on 2008-03-15

2008-03-15T19:07:13Z

hi leo 1 of my friends went on my compter a week ago and logged in there msn messenger account, and now i every time i log in to my user it says i have 60 unred mail messages which are actually my friend's. Please if any1 nos how i can stop that coming up wen i log inj i'd be much appreciated. THANKS!

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Comment from navaporn suthivorapongsri on 2007-06-10

2007-06-10T12:42:09Z

I incidently install MSN under my auto sign in in SEoul. It usually sign in automatically without my notice and I wanna remove it. But it is in Korean font which I can't read so I didn't know how to figure out.

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Comment from D on 2007-05-30

2007-05-31T02:29:47Z

Hi Leo,
Do you have any advice on how to get MSN to stop logging me off when I am using my computer. I have automic sign on ticked, but it logs me off continually. I have to log back on when I want to message one of my contacts.
Many thanks
D

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Comment from keri on 2007-03-10

2007-03-10T10:33:55Z

i can't sign in and the internet is working tell me what to do

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Comment from bills on 2007-01-29

2007-01-29T20:07:45Z

how do i change the language settings on messenger? its all in russian nd im not sure how to do it

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Comment from emma on 2006-09-11

2006-09-11T12:53:28Z

my msn is not working it keeps saying it is unavaible but the internet is working fine i have been going on websites and i have been doing what it says on there and every thing is fine so i dont understand why it is not working ! please help ! thank you x

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Comment from rob on 2006-08-25

2006-08-25T20:05:54Z

When you click sign in with a different emaild address on msn 7.0 and you sign in with a different email it remembers the email, and other ones you have used. How do I clear these emails so it no longer says them. I've done this once before, I think in control panel but it was by mistake and I don't remember how I did it, despite several attempts. Thankyou for your time.

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Comment from Trevor on 2006-08-16

2006-08-16T14:47:31Z

Hi. I was surfing the net looking for advice on how to totally remove MSN / Messenger from my laptop. My wife left my 15 year old son on my laptop one night and somehow he created an msn account? I thought I got rid of it from my change/remove programs key from the control panel. However, I had the treat of seeing his internet history on my laptop from another computer source! How do I get rid of any internet access to my laptop from this source? Did my son use my computer to create this, then he can use other people's computers and it shows on my laptop? Thanks, Trevor.

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Comment from Erik on 2006-06-09

2006-06-09T23:03:53Z

I wonder if there is a possible way to break into an email account. Really i dont think it can be done. Noone on the internet seems to be capable of doing that. All the hackers on the net are lamers. I want someone to try to break into my account. If you want mess everything up, do whatever you want to do, but i know that its not possible, if you do, i might even give 10 bucks through paypal, and then i'll want to know if you could do it again on another account, this is just to see if there is someone who can do it. Im not gonna be mad, really i want you to mess everything up, i want to see how well you do to try to make me mad, if you do, then ill want you to do it again for 50 bucks through paypal.

Good Luck and Thanks You. . .
Skaternader_Skyler@hotmail.com

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Comment from Ken on 2006-04-07

2006-04-08T06:00:51Z

Ok, so how do I stop MSN Messenger (ver 7.5) from loading when I go to hotmail.com?

Please don't give me the HKLM/Software/BlahBlah... it's not there. MSN Messenger ONLY runs when I go to hotmail.com.

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Comment from Joe on 2006-03-22

2006-03-22T10:04:23Z

Thanks for his article, but I have this problem on a shared computer at work, it has an older version of MSN msgr, no three check boxes, or "forget me" at logon screen (I have disabled automatic sign in). Any advice?
thx

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Comment from Leo on 2006-03-18

2006-03-19T01:30:05Z

1. I couldn't tell you.

2. In the U.S. at least, anyone can sue anyone for anything any time. The real question is would you win? THAT seems unlikely.

3. Seems unlikely.

Best of luck.

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Comment from Nik on 2006-03-17

2006-03-17T20:01:48Z

Leo,
By the way, that is my zodiac sign. I wish, dear god, I wish I had come to your site on Jan 28, 2006, because something happened on Jan 29 that has, well, ruined my life!! You see, my fiance was visiting and I bought her a new Dell laptop. Anyway, being the good boyfriend that I am, I set it up fr her with MSN, Yahoo Messenger, Picassa, Adobe, MS Office etc etc. Now, she leaves the country to go back and get ready to plan our wedding in India around Jan 24. On Jan 29, she calls to tell me that I have betrayed her trust by lying to her. She then sends me a text of an email in Notepad that, to my horror, was sent by me to a buddy of mine. It was a [harmless] email written after a night out with some of my buddies, describing this hot russian girl we met at the nightclub the night before. No wrong done, just an email, saying that she's hot and how i would love to get 'further acquainted with her'. Truth is, obviously nothing happened, but try telling that to a girl. Alright, downright stupid, considering I have a serious gf, I should not have shot off that email. Or, at the least, deleted it and the reply from my buddy, agreeing to my assessment of this babe. It gets worse, my gf goes into my hotmail and proceeds to read through a folder that contained a shit load of emails between my ex girlfriend and me, with whom I had ended our relationship last year. I was over her, she wasn't and had continued to write to me even after I had met my new gf. So i'm thinking, how the f@#$ did she get into my email.

Thanks to bloody Microsoft and those damn software engineers, after I set up her laptop, I probably used MSN, and did not do any of the wonderful steps outlined by you above. So, here she was 15000 miles away, looking at private stuff of mine that I had been stupid not to delete in the first place. So, now my marriage is canceled, she's threatening to break up with me cos she thinks I'm a player and a liar and entertaining my ex's advances for getting back with her. None of these are true, I love my present gf and really want this relationship to work.

Now, questions for you?
1. Is there any way for me to still get my relationship and fiance back?
2. Can I sue Microsoft for creating a wonderful little utility to make our lives easier and in the process, destroying any chance of privacy and security controls and the pain/suffering that I have endured since Jan 29?
3. Will the lessons learnt make me super savvy about security like Cloie or Edgar (from 24)?

Thanks very much,

A very tormented and destroyed - Nik, Virginia

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Comment from Dunc on 2006-01-27

2006-01-27T17:09:59Z

Also see http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/windowsmessenger/learnmore/tips/kay1.mspx

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Comment from Shawn on 2006-01-23

2006-01-24T02:22:53Z

OK, so what do you do if when you go to Tools, Options, General and those boxes are not checked? The only option that is checked is "open messenger when windows main opens" Cant find any other options.

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Comment from Ronny on 2006-01-04

2006-01-04T19:28:23Z

He does not sound like much of a friend.

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