Re: Sold PC to friend, how to make Windows Messenger his?

From: Peter Sale (psale_at_adelphia.my-leg.net)
Date: 08/31/04 

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 17:30:21 -0700

Hi Jonathan,
Many thanks. That's exactly the sort or answer I was hoping for. 

-- 
Regards,
Peter Sale
Santa Monica, CA USA
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"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" responded...
> Greetings Peter,
>
> Just have him go to http://register.passport.net and register his current
e-mail address as
> .NET Passport or he can simply set up a Hotmail account
(http://www.hotmail.com).
>
> After this, on his (your old) PC, click Start, then Control Panel, then
User Accounts, click
> the current Windows XP account that he's logged in under, then click
"Change my .NET
> Passport", choose the "Use a Different Passport" button and then go
through the wizard to set
> up the Passport he just set up.
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> "Peter Sale"  wrote ...
> I sold off my Pentium 3, 550MHz to a friend with all the installed
software, including
> Windows Messenger. The problem is that my old Windows Messenger continues
to attempt to sign
> me on rather than allow my friend to sign on with his own Messenger ID
(actually, he does not
> have an ID yet, so I was going to set him up with one).  The problem is
that I don't know how
> to do this seeming simple task, that is, set him up with his own Messenger
ID, and then set
> up Messenger on my old PC to sign him on, rather than attempting to sign
me on.  Can someone
> point me to a relevant article or two on exactly how to accomplish this
task?
>