Can you change the orange colour on alerts? I've tried
unchecking the Display Alerts when message is received box
but it makes no difference even when I close Messenger and
start it up again.

Last few days when logging in to MS Messenger 6.2 I no longer am
notified of e-mail messages in my hot mail box. Even thought it show 0
email  when I click on it or log into my hot mail account there is new
mail. Anyone else run into this.

I need to write a script using html, javascript and vbscript to show my
colleagues' messenger state in a web page. Are there any codes that fulfil
the following criteria?
1. Show the state of my colleagues even without logging into Messenger.

Just a warning that a virus has been spreading around
messenger. Random files are being sent from contacts to
user. Some of the file names are called:
"Jennifer Lopez.scr" "My new photo!.pif" "Crazy frog gets

i got a virus that i got from someone else through msn messenger. It always
tries to send itself to other people through msn messenger. it has slowed my
pc down a bit and i was wondering if you guys could help me out!!!!!!

Msgr 5.1 was working fine until after I uninstalled a display driver and
Colorific.  I downloaded Msgr 5.1 again and ran Repair.  This fails with the
error below. Any help most appreciated!  Running XP SP2 with latest updates.
Event Type:    Error

This error pops up when i attempt to sign in to messenger.
I can not log on to MSN eplorer either from my pc, any
sugestions on how to repair this problem.

i had msn messenger, no problems, today i went to sign in
and said, i had to upgrade to use it.  np i thought, but
upon trying to download a small long grey box would come
on screen and a red circle with a white X in middle of

I have Windows Messenger 5.1 installed on my PC. I am running under XP Pro,
SP2. I can sign into my account with no problems, but Messenger will
spontaneously sign out very once in a while. The sign out seems to happen
when the status of one of my contacts changes. Messenger will ...

Is there a Getting Started Guide for Windows Messenger 5.1?  The only thing I
can find is for version 4.0
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/windowsmessenger/getstarted/default.mspx

Just to say i have downloaded MSN 7, beta and i can now
audio no problem.. Before this i had MSN 6.2 and have
never been able to audio, had to use windows messenger or
yahoo!!.....this is using Xp with all updates, a router

Is it possible to run both Windows and MSN messenger at the same time? I was
looking at setting up LCS2005 and was going to have users use the windows
messenger tied to there work email, problem is some users already are using
MSN messenger

I got notified of an update of my messenger 4.7.2009-version!
If I do install this update, will I need to change settings again? I'am
refering to compatibility with my hotmail.
(new mail ...)

Please help me! My friend and I are using Windows
Messenger (latest version) so that we can use Remote
Assistance. It has worked just fine, but a couple of
weeks ago we couldn't communicate using Remote

I have xp sp2 and since upgrading cant view webcam on msn messenger 6.2
Trys to load but then seem to time out. sits there for a while then fails to
load.
Is this some kind of firewall problem?