How can I delete Microsoft Passport, because every time I sign in to check my e-mail it asks me for my passport and it is very annoying. Well, I can tell you how to delete it, but you don't really want to. Passport is how Hotmail identifies you. It may be annoying, but it's required if you want to read your email. "In effect your Passport is your Hotmail account."
Passport is Microsoft's user identification system. It was originally planned as a single-login that could be used by all sorts of web sites - login once, and you'd have access to all of the websites that use Passport. Unfortunately today it's mostly only Microsoft sites that use it. As a result Passport is how you login to Hotmail, MSN Instant Messenger, MSN's web site and other MSN sites. So without a Passport account, you have no way to login to your Hotmail. In effect your Passport is your Hotmail account. It is a little confusing, and perhaps that's one reason why Passport never really took off. The bottom line is that I don't think you really want to delete your passport, because if you did, you'd be deleting your ability to login to your Hotmail or MSN Messenger account. If you really, truly want to delete your passport, well, those are the the same instructions as deleting your Hotmail account - because that's what you'll be doing. However, if I can infer from your frustration, perhaps you're really experiencing one of the many problems that people are having logging in to Hotmail - it may look like Passport, but that's the way you login to Hotmail. This previous article, How do I resolve my MSN Hotmail sign in problems? is probably what you really want. There are, sadly, a lot of things that can affect whether or not you can log in to Hotmail. That article includes a fairly lengthy list of things to check and things to try. Related:
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I want to delete my account.
Posted by: Tiarna at August 9, 2006 07:29 AMWhen I try to run hotmail, it state: Your browser is currently set to block cookies. Your browser must allow cookies before you can use the Passport network. I have tried so many thing on the Internet Options, however, it does not work. I installed IE 7Beta 3 and still giving me problems. Please advise to stop this, I am going in sane.
Very Respectfully,
Alfred
Posted by: Alfred Perez, Jr. at August 10, 2006 04:39 PMi want to delete my msn messenger because someone has hacked into my account and its already cause me aloud of grief why cant there be a simple walkthrough on how to delete the account plez can you email me leo at james.arsenal@hotmail.co.uk and is there a site that deletes your account for you
Posted by: james at August 26, 2006 12:10 PMthankyou
i hope you reply
I do not use the msn messenger anymore and i still get people contacting me throw it and i don't want theat anymore please help me and it will also take me a while to read your reply as i have to use a computer at a library now and only use it now and again thanks.
Posted by: Amy at December 15, 2006 05:27 AMHere is a freebie. I have a pay for services at my site www.tctu.com to help computer users by remote assistance or desktop videos.
Let me start off with this easy fix by taking the passport address out of your registry.
Type in regedit in the RUN command in the start menu. Then click on "My Computer" in the registry editor. Type in the address you want removed from Messenger. It will find that address in a folder called "cert". Simply delete it from your registry. That's the end of that email address wanting to sign in anymore.
There three things to consider when you start your computer. First off, in Outlook Express under options, you will find "launch Messenger when OE starts". Uncheck that. Secondly, in Messenger itself under tools "options", uncheck "launch "Messenger when Windows Starts" and thirdly, when you have a Hotmail account, Messenger is going to load each time you visit the site, but will not prompt you to login...no biggie there as the Icon will go away after you close the Hotmail page.
I use the original Windows Messenger in XP, MSN Messenger 7.5 and Windows Live Messenger to connect to anyone to tweak their computers for them. Why Messenger? Because it is the best utility in Windows XP for me to have a voice chat with a client as I connect to their computer. There are other ways to connect to their computers, but because this program already exists and is free, it's better for me to utilize it and teach people how to best utilize it for voice, voice/video and Remote Assistance.
Best regards,
Orbezpc
Posted by: orbezpc at January 13, 2007 07:26 AMI do NOT use, nor have ever used hotmail. messenger is and has always been disabled.
I use Outlook, not outlook express.
But the last few days- I have gotten that stupid pop-up.
Any idea what gives?
Posted by: ATA at January 19, 2007 02:18 PMTried the registry fix mentioned above, but does no good.
please delete this account tinisha_12@hotmail.com delete now please
Posted by: katie at February 16, 2007 10:54 AMI HAVE READ ALL OF THE ARTICLES....I DO NOT USE MSN ANYTHINGS AND HAVE NO HOTMAIL ACCOUNT, YET WHEN I TRY TO ACCESS DIFFERENT LOCATIONS, PASSPORT KEEPS TELLING ME TO LOG-IN......I REALLY WOULD LIKE TO DELETE PASSPORT, IT REALLY MESSES UP E-MAILS TO COMPANIES THAT I WOULD LIKE TO COMMUNICATE WITH. THERE IS NO REASON WHY I SHOULD HAVE TO SIT ON THE TELEPHONE-LONG DISTANCE, WHEN I PAY FOR MY INTERNET SERVICE,,PASSPORT ROBS ME OF WHAT I AM PAYING FOR. I NEED INSTRUCTIONS TO MAKE PASSPORT GO AWAY. THANK YOU
Posted by: LORETTA MC LEOD at May 5, 2007 03:41 PMI had windows messenger on my ex-boyfriends computer and it automatically logs onto it when his computer starts. I am no longer talking to him, and his girlfriend has been going into my account and messing around with things. What would be te best way of sorting this out without having to delete my hotmail account (contacting them is not an option).
Posted by: Alana at August 19, 2007 04:47 PMWhen I sign in to Windows Live to check my e-mail in Hotmail, all is good. BUT, when I sign out I get this msg. that cannot sign out of passport, WHY? And how do I sign out of Passport? If passport IS Hotmail, and I sign out of Hotmail, why do I have to sign out AGAIN from passport? And HOW DO I SIGN OUT?
Posted by: sheri at September 10, 2008 12:29 PM