Downloaded SP2 - Works great except for Windows Messenger Bug

I downloaded and installed SP2 yesterday. It seems to be
working fine and the popup blocker is sweet. Although I
have one small problem that I was hoping someone knows
the answer to. I use Windows Messenger primarily to alert
me when I get new email to my Hotmail account. Whenever I
get new mail, the little alert "pops" up from the systray
icon of WM. However, now that I have installed SP2, the
systray icon is now linked to Outlook. I was wondering
how do I revert back to the old setting of Hotmail
Notifications. I looked at the options menu for WM, but I
couldnt seem to find anything that would get me back
these alerts. Anyone have a clue as to what I should do?
Thanks.

Only a partial cure, in that it will display unread email on the Welcome
screen when the setting is made....Tweak UI from
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/d...powertoys.mspx

--
Peter.
Toronto, Canada.
Windows XP Home SP2.
Pentium4 Dual HT @ 3.0ghz, 160gb HD, 1gb DDR.
"Joshua" wrote in message
...
I downloaded and installed SP2 yesterday. It seems to be
working fine and the popup blocker is sweet. Although I
have one small problem that I was hoping someone knows
the answer to. I use Windows Messenger primarily to alert
me when I get new email to my Hotmail account. Whenever I
get new mail, the little alert "pops" up from the systray
icon of WM. However, now that I have installed SP2, the
systray icon is now linked to Outlook. I was wondering
how do I revert back to the old setting of Hotmail
Notifications. I looked at the options menu for WM, but I
couldnt seem to find anything that would get me back
these alerts. Anyone have a clue as to what I should do?
Thanks.

"Joshua" wrote in message
...
I downloaded and installed SP2 yesterday. It seems to be
working fine and the popup blocker is sweet. Although I
have one small problem that I was hoping someone knows
the answer to. I use Windows Messenger primarily to alert
me when I get new email to my Hotmail account. Whenever I
get new mail, the little alert "pops" up from the systray
icon of WM. However, now that I have installed SP2, the
systray icon is now linked to Outlook. I was wondering
how do I revert back to the old setting of Hotmail
Notifications. I looked at the options menu for WM, but I
couldnt seem to find anything that would get me back
these alerts. Anyone have a clue as to what I should do?
Thanks.

This is apparently a "feature" of the version of Windows
Messenger included in SP2(doesn't support addins-which
is needed to display the e-mail messages). You actually have
to downgrade to an earlier version of Windows Messenger to
be able to use this facility. I suppose that it was somehow regarded
as a security problem.

Dick Kistler

Greetings Joshua,

The Windows Messenger version within SP2 does not have support for Add-ins which is required
for Hotmail support within Windows Messenger. As such, in order to get this functionality
back, you'll either need to downgrade to the previous version of Windows Messenger
(http://www.microsoft.com/windows/messenger/download.asp) or use MSN Messenger instead
(http://messenger.msn.com/Download).
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2004 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.

"Joshua" wrote in message
...
I downloaded and installed SP2 yesterday. It seems to be
working fine and the popup blocker is sweet. Although I
have one small problem that I was hoping someone knows
the answer to. I use Windows Messenger primarily to alert
me when I get new email to my Hotmail account. Whenever I
get new mail, the little alert "pops" up from the systray
icon of WM. However, now that I have installed SP2, the
systray icon is now linked to Outlook. I was wondering
how do I revert back to the old setting of Hotmail
Notifications. I looked at the options menu for WM, but I
couldnt seem to find anything that would get me back
these alerts. Anyone have a clue as to what I should do?
Thanks.

I decided to download MSN messanger. But now have a problem. It will not
log in automatically even though I have checked the option. It load MSN
messanger and appears to attempt to for a second and then just stops. I
can't believe that microsoft took out the addins. Everything worked before.
I tried going back to the old version and that didn't work because after I
installed it, the program wouldn't even automatically load up on
startup...much less log in. Can anyone help? I am so tired of every update
causing problems.

"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote:

Greetings Joshua,

The Windows Messenger version within SP2 does not have support for Add-ins which is required
for Hotmail support within Windows Messenger. As such, in order to get this functionality
back, you'll either need to downgrade to the previous version of Windows Messenger
(http://www.microsoft.com/windows/messenger/download.asp) or use MSN Messenger instead
(http://messenger.msn.com/Download).
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2004 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.

"Joshua" wrote in message
...
I downloaded and installed SP2 yesterday. It seems to be
working fine and the popup blocker is sweet. Although I
have one small problem that I was hoping someone knows
the answer to. I use Windows Messenger primarily to alert
me when I get new email to my Hotmail account. Whenever I
get new mail, the little alert "pops" up from the systray
icon of WM. However, now that I have installed SP2, the
systray icon is now linked to Outlook. I was wondering
how do I revert back to the old setting of Hotmail
Notifications. I looked at the options menu for WM, but I
couldnt seem to find anything that would get me back
these alerts. Anyone have a clue as to what I should do?
Thanks.