Hello


It seems MicroSoft has made some changes to Windows Live as of a few days ago and it's really driving me nuts.

The problem I'm having is, each time I log into mail.msn.com to read my email, it signs me into their stupid web messenger, and signs me out of my stand alone client of MSN 8.5.

This only started happening like 3 days ago it seems and it's very frustrating.  I will get a notice in MSN Messenger 8.5 that I have a new email.  I click on the mail icon in the left upper corner.... then it kicks me out of MSN and all my conversations start appearing on the web interface

Does anyone know if there is a way to remove or block this new Messenger web integration?  I definitely do not want, each time I just check my email on the web page, that it logs into Messenger, it's so unnecessary a feature.


Thanks

Upgrade to the latest Windows Live Messenger. You cannot disable the automatic sign in from what I know.

Automatic display name change & status change (WLM)

If you upgrade your client to the latest official release it will support MPOP. MPOP is a protocol that allows you to sign into the Messenger service on multiple computers. Therefore if you sign into your email you will not be disconnected from the client.

Now if you sign out of the web based messenger that thread states that you should have the ability to disable the auto signin.

Cheers.

It may state that it has that option, but we can't find it. I've looked everywhere and I don't see the option to disable that anywhere.

I know the new messenger allows for multiple logins on several computers.  However, I _hate_ the new messenger, I had to use a hack to change the build version just so I could continue using the old one.

I use MSN 8.5 cause I can remove all the adds and other junk, as well as have Avatar display pictures in the contact list (and they're not retardedly giant ones in the new MSN).

I really really don't want to have to change to the new MSN, cause there is nothing wrong with my old one.  Plus, this is a problem all caused by them integrating Messenger into their web page... which seriously is retarded and like any chat client, you should be able to enable or disable it.... But yeah, for the life of me I can't find any option in the live web page to simply turn messenger off

Hopefully there is some Active X thing you can disable, or a security setting you can enable which will block it from starting on the web page.  That or maybe some other work around, if they're too short sighted to give people the option of enable or disabling it.


Thanks

Simple solution: stop using a web page to check your mail.

Use a local client such as WLMail or Thunderbird.

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Originally posted by vaccination
Simple solution: stop using a web page to check your mail.

Use a local client such as WLMail or Thunderbird.

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Couldn't there be a way to code a greasemonkey script to remove the Web Messenger from Hotmail, thus saving the day?

Also I'm in Ottawa too, lets make babies

Web mail is the best way to check it,  have never ever set up a stand alone client to check my MSN mail.  I just click on the mail box on the left and it loads up.  I have a 10Mbps connection, I have never had issues with the page loading slowly.

Besides, it does this on EVERY computer I'm on, I would like to check my mail on friends and public computers _without_ it starting up messenger at all.

Dj, with all do respect, that solution no longer applies with the last update. The option to turn it off has been removed. Now your status is no longer separate, but is under your name:

Hmm.... thanks for the post, but I don't think you read the thread...  I'm not trying to stop the stand-alone client from logging in.... any idiot can easily set that to disable.  I'm talking about the mail.msn.com web page, and how it automatically logs into web messenger on the _web_ site.

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Originally posted by OttawaAnimeFan
I'm talking about the mail.msn.com web page, and how it automatically logs into web messenger on the _web_ site.

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Yeah, but installing the new MSN client, just so you can tell it to log out of the Web MSN, isn't really gonna help.  As soon as you log back into the web mail, it will sign into web MSN again.  I want to stop that, permanently from happening.  I’d like to be able to check my email like normal, over the web mail interface, on any computer, without it logging into Web Messenger at all.

Have you tried actively logging OUT of the web messenger when it logs you in?

There is no log out option on this web messenger, it's on, that's it, there is no option to change status or log out, let alone disable it.  The only options it gives are "Add friends, View all contacts and Manage categories".

Somehow I beg to differ...

My layout doesn't look the same as yours.  I just checked and I do have the upper right option about status, however all I can do there is log out, after it logs in.  No options to set it so it doesn't log into web messenger next time you log into web mail.

Yeah, I checked it out, I can manually log out once it logs in.  But when I open web mail again in a new browser or on another computer, it logs back into web messenger automatically.  There really needs to be an option just to simply turn it off, I mean really, not everyone wants messenger open if they're on a public computer just checking their email.