MSN Messenger seems to have a very irregular behaviour
under restrictive firewalls or error-prone
networks/environments, whereas other instant messaging
protocols seem to be more stable on the same conditions.

Messenger was is English but now it's changed to
Spanish...How do I change it back?

1) I have WinXP
2) I might have uninstalled/disabled whatever messenger product came with it
cause as I recall something was annoying me :-)
3) I decided to install the latest version of Windows Messenger

I don't use messenger and I get a pop up every time I
start up telling me to download a new update. This is
software I don't want but I can't get rid of it. How do I
get rid of the popup and/or get rid of messenger

Jonathan (or anyone else)
I tried disabling MSN Explorer protection in Norton Anti-Virus, but that didn't help.  I always have to run WM twice before its icon will appear in the system tray (either [1] once at startup, and then manually; or [2] once at startup and then by running ...

Hi. I've just installed Windows Messenger 5.0 to a WinXP SP1 computer.
It had MSN Messenger 6.0 installed previously, but I have deinstalled
it and reinstalled WinMsgr 5.0.
The problem is still that WinMsgr 5.0 won't start. When I click it in

When I re-installed Windows Messenger it took all the contacts from MSN
Messenger (OK?) but now I don't have the option of getting contacts from my
address book in MSN Messenger...why?.....How do I correct that?

I'm having some trouble re-installing Windows Messenger (I have MSN 6.2). I
removed it some time ago and cannot get it to work again. I've gone so far
as to download 4.7 from MSFT's download site and after the
installation...same problem; namely, running

  i am having a problem. When I see the XP(home edition)
login screen, i see number of emails for that user under
userid. It was not so before i installed MSN messenger. I
donot want under logon screen to show the emails. Please

I re-installed Windows Messenger and all my contacts have now gone from MSN
Messenger.  I now have to add each one by email address as it does not give
me the option of installing from my address book.  Any way to re-enable that
feature?

How do I uninstall windows messenger?  I have Home
Edition Windows XP.
Thanks for your help.

I AM HAVING A GREAT DEAL OF PROBLEMS GETTING NET PASSPORT
TO VERIFY MY E-MAIL ADDRESS.  AND ALSO I KEEP GETTING AN
ERROR MESSAGE:  THE HOST "POP3" COULD NOT BE FOUND.  
ACCOUNT "POP3" PROTOCOL POP3, PORT 110. SECURE (SSL)

Does Windows Messenger 5.0 integrate with Outlook XP the same as the 4.7
version?  I am running Windows XP professional and Office XP Professional.
I know that MSN Messenger 6 does not integrate with Outlook, but I was going
to update to Windows Messenger 5.0 if I do not lose the ...

yeah 4 some reason i cant get into my messanger, its
telling me that my password is not correct or the username
is incorrect. its tellin me to reset my password but thats
not working. anyway am getting this 0x81000303 error ting

I am using dsl with linksys dsl router.  I am not able to
login on msn messenger, after many tries I may get lucky
and it logs in.  But majority of the time, it will try to
login, then I get a message