Re: Outlook and messenger
- From: "Jonathan Kay [MVP]" <msnewsreplies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 03:30:45 -0500
Greetings,
If you actually want it to login and access your Hotmail account, you'll need to be using MSN
Messenger (http://messenger.msn.com/download) and have a @msn.com or @hotmail.com Passport
signed in [and it will just magically work].
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Associate Expert
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"apye" <apye@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:6AD62934-171E-4DEE-B507-F18930EB3D80@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Thanks very much Jonathan. That cured the problem with my e-mail inbox in
> messenger but I want my main e-mail accounts as my default handler!?. On my
> old PC I had this set up, messenger would always open the hotmail web page
> and display my hotmail account seperatly.
>
> I managed to stop messenger opening with outlook by disabling instant
> messaging in options/ other.
>
> Any other suggestions? I think I set messenger to use my main e-mail
> accounts when I first ran it. Is there any way to run this again and change
> this setting to hotmail?
> I though of uninstalling and reinstalling but messenger is not listed in the
> remove programs list.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> "Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> You'll simply need to change Hotmail back to the default mail handler. To do so, open up
>> Internet Explorer, click the Tools menu, then Internet Options, then Programs tab and
>> under
>> E-mail, select Hotmail.
>>
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>> Jonathan Kay
>> Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Live Messenger
>> Associate Expert
>> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
>> Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
>> All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2006 Jonathan Kay.
>> You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
>> --
>>
>> "apye" <apye@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:31B696DD-A837-4927-B8AE-E53092070FFA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >I have recently got a new PC and have loaded Office XP. I have set up outlook
>> > to send and receive from my main email account. I also have a hotmail account
>> > which I used to access from messenger by right clicking on it and selecting
>> > 'my email inbox' which would open the hotmail web page. Now when I select 'my
>> > email inbox' it opens outlook!? Messenger and outlook seem to be linked in
>> > some way as I cannot close messenger while outlook is still open. All I want
>> > to do is use messenger to acess my hotmail account and not to have it linked
>> > to outlook, any ideas how I can change this. Thanks.....
>>
>>
>>
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