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I keep getting MSN Messenger messages that say I am signed on a another location. What does that mean?

Most likely it means what it says. The common scenario is if you use MSN Messenger on more than one machine, like I do. If the machine you're not using is rebooted then it will sign on again causing you to get that message. Also, network problems can cause MSN Messenger to login again as well. However if you're concerned that someone else is using your account or machine; just change your password and see if the problem goes away.

Article 259 | Posted June 8, 2004

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Certainly could be. A quick qay to solve it is to change your password.

Posted by: Leo at December 24, 2005 5:16 PM

yo if your getting signed out and your contacts are gone, usually it will mean that someone knows your password and is changing s***, change your password to something someone does not know

Posted by: Venom at April 14, 2006 6:10 PM

The problem just happened to me and after searching the solution for a while, i tried to change the connection preference to 'No proxy' (initilly Firewall with no proxy) and it works well. Happy trying guys!

Posted by: sufian at May 16, 2006 3:08 AM

Leo, you answer makes no sense whatsoever. The message began the moment I signed up for MSN Messenge, directly after it was installed. Tell me how someone could have been signing on as me at the same moment messenger completed. I was sitting at my computer completing the installation process, and not at another computer. If this is the best answer that you could find, you should stop giving answers.

Posted by: Carol at November 19, 2006 9:04 AM

What I did was go to controll panel and then add/remove and then windows componets and uncheck windows messenger.

Posted by: Ken at January 26, 2007 8:06 AM

Hi
I used to get alerts that says my husband signed in (became online) even if he wasn't but when I would check my contacts I never seen him online. He changed his password but now I keep getting msn alerts saying that my husband has signed in on a mobile device. We work in the same office and he didn't even set up mobile device on msn. What does this mean? Is it possible that somebody is using his msn? There isn't any other thing that indicates that.

Posted by: Sera at January 3, 2008 1:48 PM

1. can i sign in deliberatly with same id at two different locations????. does any msn messenger supports this???

Posted by: sunjiv sachar at January 10, 2008 8:35 PM

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Hash: SHA1

No. The MSN Messenger service does not support this.

Leo


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Posted by: Leo A. Notenboom at January 13, 2008 11:24 AM

that's the problem since I chaged connection, when am sign in in my msn they say error code 800701f7 what the problem?

Posted by: nice at January 17, 2008 10:44 PM

cann you find out where you are signed in, if it showes that you are signed in somewhere else?

Posted by: B at February 29, 2008 12:21 PM

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