ooopppsss in entering name to sign up

[carl]

HI ALL,
this is my first post to any newsgroup.
the other day, i had to reformat my hard drive - quite an
excrutiating experience!
once that was thru, i tried to re-establish my Windows
Messenger connection/account.
when i was signing on, i was 'nt paying attention to what
i was typing & entered a _ in my user / screen / display
name instead of a - !
so now its asking me to verify my
E-mail address?
that - thru my error - is my INcorrect E-mail address,
so i cannot verify it !
can i OR NOT "fix" this mistake, "delete" this name &
enter a fresh/correct/new identity name, OR WHAT ???
i am a cyber amateur, as might be all too obvious!
THANK YOU for any/all assists ! ! !

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Greetings Carl,

You can just change your Passport e-mail address to the correct one. To do so, first, you
need to save your contact list (it'll be deleted if you don't). Sign into Messenger using
your current Passport, click the File menu and then select Save Contact List. The default
filename should be fine, and just save it on your Desktop. If you don't yet have a contact
list, you can skip this. Go to the Desktop and verify that the file was created.

If you do have contacts, you'll want to delete them off your main contact list (after you've
saved them), so that they can remove the "wrong" address off their lists completely. Just
right-click each contact, and choose Delete.

Then, go to:
http://memberservices.passport.com/memberservice.srf and select 'Edit my .NET Passport
profile' and then under your current e-mail address click 'I want to change this', and enter
the new address.

Then, sign-in to your new Passport in Messenger (your new verification e-mail should be
arriving shortly). Then, click the File menu, then select Import Contacts from a Saved File,
then locate the file you just saved on your desktop and select it. Your contacts will be
readded, and they'll all need to add the new name to their list.
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Windows MVP, Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com

"carl" > wrote in message
...
> HI ALL,
> this is my first post to any newsgroup.
> the other day, i had to reformat my hard drive - quite an
> excrutiating experience!
> once that was thru, i tried to re-establish my Windows
> Messenger connection/account.
> when i was signing on, i was 'nt paying attention to what
> i was typing & entered a _ in my user / screen / display
> name instead of a - !
> so now its asking me to verify my
> E-mail address?
> that - thru my error - is my INcorrect E-mail address,
> so i cannot verify it !
> can i OR NOT "fix" this mistake, "delete" this name &
> enter a fresh/correct/new identity name, OR WHAT ???
> i am a cyber amateur, as might be all too obvious!
> THANK YOU for any/all assists ! ! !