I recently installed the AOL IM on my Win XP machine
afterwhich I noticed that that the Windows Messenger was
not starting up with Outlook Express. It was replaced with
the AOL IM. How can I change it back? I want the Windows

I set up a hotmail account for my wife so she can IM me
at work.  I try and log into any Messenger and it gives
me the service status error with her account, but I can
sign in fine with mine.  I can log into her hotmail inbox

I have not figure out a way to make all the IM windows on MSN Messenger to be the same image/color. I would like every IM window to be orange..not the standard blue. Am I just going to have to go through everyone's screen name and change them all? Is there a way to do it all at ...

I have windows xp home edition and the msn messenger that
came along with it. Now I want the msn messenger 6.1 but
it doesn't work. I have installed it but it still doesn't
work. I was told that I have to do something with my

Well i'm about to throw my tower out of the Window. I am
a computer technician and utterly hate msn+windows
messenger. Nothing but problems. Anyway, a couple days
ago windows messenger (4.7) did not load in the system

Does anyone know how to remove Windows Messenger from my
computer?  I have Windows XP Professional and I want the
program gone, gone, gone...but can't figure out how to
remove it.  It does not appear in the list to "Add or

Whenever I start MSN Messenger 6.1, I get a message telling me I'm being logged out of .net messenger because I logged in elsewhere.  Also, even when MSN Messenger isn't running, I get popups alerting me when friends come online.  I thought uninstalling all .net-related programs ...

I would like to fine-tune my firewall. For that purpose I need the IP
address ranges of the MSN servers to which Messenger/Hotmail connects. Does
anyone have an "official" list?

I think my post just got deleted for no reason at all. I
am not sure if it's a bug with your board, but one second
I see my post, and, after refreshing, my post
dissapeared..

ive got that prob at  mo. come this evening i will have had it for 2 days, how long did everyone else who no longer have it go on for?  ive tried all the methods of sorting it mentioned and they dont work. i cant access my emails either

After installing a westell modem "Ethernet" Windows messenger would
not work. I went back to "launchmodem" and enabled remote access and
it worked, but I noticed it said after 20 min. inactivity or reboot
remote access would be disabled. Does remote access need to be enabled

I have a Linksys BEFSR41 router that I use at home for a small 3 X PC
network.  Although I have had this device for a couple of years I never been
able to get it to work properly for video calls using MSN Messenger or
Windows Messenger.   Sometimes the other person can see or hear ...

I had this problem long ago and cured it by downloading a later version of
Messenger. But now I've got it again. At bootup Messenger takes a long time
to load, delaying Outlook till it does. It's not life or death but it's
annoying.

I'm in Iraq and the network we have here does not allow Messenger to connect.  The network does have a hardware firewall.  I can probably get the they guys who run the network open the ports it needs if I knew the ports.  I don't think if uses a proxy but I'm not sure, and they ...

How do I delete previous user names that pop up on my computer in that field when I am signing onto my MSN Messenger?