Display name prompts.
My forum entry immediately followed yours with this issue. I have been told
that it is related to having an incomplete profile on windows Live.
Particularly not having a full name. It seems that microsoft have
'tightened' security by forcing you to either add something (anything) as
your name in your profile or by making your life a pain by repeatedly asking
you for the display name that you have already entered. I haven't been able
to logon yet to windows live to prove this as there is a technical problem
with it. I expect it can't cope with all the people typing false names into
their profiles.

"Teija" wrote:

Can we keep using Windows Messenger 4.7, 5.0 and 5.1 in on o ur Windows XP
desktops at work for the foreseeable future? The interface is SOOO much
cleaner than the Windows Live Messenger.
In the past week or so we've have lots of problems with people not being
able to sign in:
1) The automatic signing-in process just keeps going without ever signing
the user in. They have to cancel sign-in and sometimes fully exit the program
before manually signing in.

2) Users are repeated being prompted to enter a display name with the
message: "Please provide a display name so you can sign in. Do not use your
e-mail address or leave the box blank. We now require a display name that is
not your e-mail address to protect you from e-mail virus attacks."

They enter their user name and are prompted again the next time they log
into their computer.

Any help on how to solve these would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!