Signing in to hotmail with messenger

Julie

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Mar 5, 2007, 2:49:15 PM3/5/07

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I have just gotten a new computer. I use outlook for my work email account,
but have previously used messenger to take me directly to hotmail to do my
personal emails. I've just downloaded windows messenger and when I try to
sign in it takes me to outlook. How can I sign in directly to hotmail with
messeger?
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Roady [MVP]

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Mar 5, 2007, 3:11:25 PM3/5/07

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This happens automatically when you sign into Messenger with a valid Hotmail
accout. All other sign-in accounts will open the default mail application.

Note that Messenger has its own newsgroups.

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Julie

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Mar 5, 2007, 3:29:00 PM3/5/07

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Thank you for the response, but that wasn't the case on my last computer.
Maybe messenger was an older version. The problem is that I want to keep
Outlook as my default mail application, but don't want to use Outlook for my
hotmail account. Is there a way to go directly into hotmail like there used
to be?
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Roady [MVP]

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Mar 5, 2007, 4:20:37 PM3/5/07

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I didn't say that you had to. I said that the sign-in account for Messenger
has to be a Hotmail address. You can obtain the latest version here;
http://get.live.com/messenger/overview

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Julie

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Mar 5, 2007, 4:52:25 PM3/5/07

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OK, I guess we're not communicating. Let me try again. I have downloaded
the latest version of messenger. I have set up my hotmail address as a sign
in account. When I click sign in in messenger, my computer opens outlook. I
do not want to change the default mail handler, so is there another way to
click on "sign in" in messenger and not have it open up Outlook?

Roady [MVP]

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Mar 5, 2007, 5:11:49 PM3/5/07

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You're still off-topic here.

Anyway;
Are you using Windows Messenger or are you using Windows Live Messenger?
Choose Help-> About to see your exact version.

What "sign-in" are you referring to? Sign-in will connect you to the
Messenger network and once logged it you'll see your buddy-list. At what
time does Outlook come into play? Clicking the Envelope button in Windows
Live Messenger will take you to you Hotmail account when you are logged in
with a Hotmail account. You default mail application doesn't have to do
anything with this.

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Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
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Julie

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Mar 6, 2007, 8:52:05 AM3/6/07

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I have Windows Messenger. When I sign in, my buddy list does in fact come
up. At that point, I can either click on file, my email inbox, or I can
click on the little bubble people on my bottom tool box and click on my email
inbox. Regardless of which one I do, when I click on my email inbox, Outlook
opens up.

Yesterday I tried changing my default mail handler under settings, control
panel, internet settings, programs. I changed the default from Outlook to
Windows Live mail. That solves the problem I'm writing about, ie. once this
default is changed, when I click on my email inbox, Outlook does not open and
I am taken directly into my hotmail account.

My issue is that I was trying to find a solution without changing my mail
default, because I prefer it to be Outlook.

Roady [MVP]

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Mar 8, 2007, 7:14:03 PM3/8/07

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In that case use Windows Live Messenger. AFAIK; Windows Messenger and MSN
Messenger won't be updated anymore and have been combined (and extended
beyond that) into one product called Windows Live Messenger.

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