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I've MSN Messenger at a friend's house, and now he's logging in as me and IMing all my friends, because Messenger was set to remember me. How do I stop that, and how do I prevent it from happening again? You're not alone, I see this a lot. If you're not careful, it's very easy to accidentally give someone else access to your account if you use MSN Messenger a public computer or someone else's computer. It require's a little diligence on your part, or you're going to get into trouble. First, if it's already happened, change your password now. That will prevent any "Remember Me" functionality on other computer from working any longer, because of course they'll have remembered the old, now wrong, password. "... if it's already happened, change your password
now."
Now, each time you use someone else's computer for MSN Messenger, you need to make sure the features are off. To keep Messenger from automatically starting at login, and from allowing automatic login. Click on Tools, Options, General. Now UNcheck "Automatically run messenger when I log on to Windows", and "Allow automatic sign in when connected to the Internet". We also need to force Messenger to forget who we are. The next step that everyone seems to overlook is simple: Sign Out -> Hit the File Menu, and select Sign Out. 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. At this point you should also click on "Forget me". If you ever use Messenger on someone else's computer, you must check these settings each time you are done, or you risk leaving your information on their computer. I've put together a short, less than two minute video walking through the steps to disable the automatic login and remember me features of MSN Messenger that you'll need to take each time you finish using it on someone else's computer.
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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.
Posted by: navaporn suthivorapongsri at June 10, 2007 5:42 AMhi 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!
Posted by: Rupert at March 15, 2008 12:07 PMhello
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
Posted by: Anja at May 4, 2008 1:18 AMhi 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..
Posted by: Marla at June 26, 2008 12:50 PMI 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
Posted by: Halima at July 10, 2008 6:59 AMI'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".
Posted by: S at July 11, 2008 5:36 PMI have Windows XP, does that make a difference to the instructions?
how do I stop MSNBC News auto feed to my mail folder "unread feeds" .. it is filling up to to the 100s
Posted by: Robert at August 1, 2008 8:52 AMOkay, 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???
Posted by: I hate myself. D: at August 24, 2008 2:47 PMWeird 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.
Posted by: Baldvin at September 10, 2008 12:22 PMi 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"
Posted by: mehak sultana at October 5, 2008 11:11 AM