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Old January 9th 04, 01:10 PM
Greg
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Can somebody please help me to change my email address
registered with Windows Messenger? I used the wrong email
address when I first signed up. I have tried to find an
edit function but am unsuccessful. What should I do?
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Old January 9th 04, 01:10 PM
Jonathan Kay [MVP]
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Greetings Greg,

First, you'll 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 out of Messenger is you're still signed in (right-click its icon in the
notification area/system tray, by the clock and choose Sign Out), then sign-in to your new
Passport in Messenger (right-click the icon and choose Sign In..., be sure to click the
'Sign me in automatically' checkbox if you want it to automatically sign you in later).
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
Microsoft MVP - MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com


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Can somebody please help me to change my email address
registered with Windows Messenger? I used the wrong email
address when I first signed up. I have tried to find an
edit function but am unsuccessful. What should I do?



 




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