I have been trying to fix this problem since 9 AM at work
and finally decided to reformat the hard drive and
reinstall Windows XP.  After all this, still no MSN
Messenger.  I was able to log in from home and was logged

I have the same problem as the othe4...when i try signing in2 msn its desplayin we are unable 2 sign u are..blah blah blah..please make sure you are connected 2 the internet..last time it happened i manged 2 fix the problem by setting my whole computer clendar 2 a earlier peroid ...

This is going to be a little long winded so bear with
me.  I just did a full (no previous op sys) install of
Win XP.  Then, because of a misunderstanding on my part,
I downloaded and installed MSN Messenger 6.1.  When I

Hello from Holland,
when i put on my webcam in messeneger, the picture of the webcam from the
person i am speaking with, gets darker after a few minutes
does anyone know how to solve this?

I don't plan on using the messenger much, so when I got
the e-mail to verify my address, I pitched it.  Now I
keep getting this pop-up to verify my address.  It seems
the only way to stop it is to verify my address.  Who do

When I installed Windows XP Pro on my machine Messenger version
4.7 was installed by default .  I then upgraded to version 6.1, went into
Add/Remove
Programs - Components and unchecked the 4.7 version.  Now when I start my

Unfortunately nobody answered the question I posted. I do
not want to throw out webcamand and ask you to help me..
Recently I bought Alaris Parallel port Web camera.
I downloaded windows XP driver and installed it and video

On my windows XP Pro PC I have messenger installed and it works fine but
when I goto hotmail.com my computer seems to hang for a few seconds on every
new page I visit at hotmail.com.
example:

I´ve installed messenger 5.0 with Microsoft Echgange
Instant messagging.
I can´t recive communications from my contacts in
exchange, i send to those contacts request but i cant

I have added contacts but some of my contact names don't mean a thing to me. Some
of them have used changed their names like "I'm a Frontpage User and always will be"
which appears on my main contact list. I have to put the cursor over it to display the
tooltip which tells me ...

often, and for no apparent reason, msn messenger signs me
out automatically.  its super annoying, anyone know how
to fix this problem?

It used to be that in my MSN Messenger 6.1 on Windows XP
the contacts that were online had little GREEN icons next
to them and the ones that were offline had little RED
icons next to them.  For some reason they are now all

when using e-mail or windows messenger i have tried to personalise my address by just using my first name but cannot find out how to do this. I was told to go to personal setting to change this but having done that it doesn't let my type what i want people to see me as. Can ...

I have the following problem:
I can get files OK with Windows Messenger but I can't send files...
When I try I get the error message:
We could not send this file because the connection is blocked. Please

Is there any way to enable MSN messenger to display online contacts in
Outlook Express in the same fashion as Windows Messenger?
Many thanks