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Hotmail/Passport account files
I'm running Windows XP and have four accounts that one can log into. I have a
friend who will log on under one of the accounts and check his Hotmail account. After he is done and I go to the logon screen, it will say "xx unread messages" and if I click on this link it will show his email addrsss that he used. How do I get rid of this without him coming back and logging back on and reading all of his messages? I thought I found the solution one time where I deleted his Passport account in a setting, but I can't seem to find where I did that now. And again I reminded my wife not to let people use my computer when i'm not around Thanks |
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Greetings,
This is actually a feature. To remove this, click Start, then click Run and enter "regedit.exe" and click OK. Then navigate (it's like Windows Explorer) to My Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Wind ows\CurrentVersion\UnreadMail\yourmsnname@hotmail. com Where is the passport. Double-click the MessageCount and enter 0 as the value (this will set back to none). Then click OK, close the registry editor, and log out to see the change. -- Jonathan Kay Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Live Messenger Associate Expert http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/ Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2006 Jonathan Kay. You *must* contact me for redistribution rights. -- "Kevin" wrote in message ... I'm running Windows XP and have four accounts that one can log into. I have a friend who will log on under one of the accounts and check his Hotmail account. After he is done and I go to the logon screen, it will say "xx unread messages" and if I click on this link it will show his email addrsss that he used. How do I get rid of this without him coming back and logging back on and reading all of his messages? I thought I found the solution one time where I deleted his Passport account in a setting, but I can't seem to find where I did that now. And again I reminded my wife not to let people use my computer when i'm not around Thanks |
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Hotmail/Passport account files
Thanks, that worked. It is possible just to delete the accounts from regedit
in the manner that you described since there are numerous listed that I don't care to have on there? Thanks again, Kevin "Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote: Greetings, This is actually a feature. To remove this, click Start, then click Run and enter "regedit.exe" and click OK. Then navigate (it's like Windows Explorer) to My Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Wind ows\CurrentVersion\UnreadMail\yourmsnname@hotmail. com Where is the passport. Double-click the MessageCount and enter 0 as the value (this will set back to none). Then click OK, close the registry editor, and log out to see the change. -- Jonathan Kay Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Live Messenger Associate Expert http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/ Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2006 Jonathan Kay. You *must* contact me for redistribution rights. -- "Kevin" wrote in message ... I'm running Windows XP and have four accounts that one can log into. I have a friend who will log on under one of the accounts and check his Hotmail account. After he is done and I go to the logon screen, it will say "xx unread messages" and if I click on this link it will show his email addrsss that he used. How do I get rid of this without him coming back and logging back on and reading all of his messages? I thought I found the solution one time where I deleted his Passport account in a setting, but I can't seem to find where I did that now. And again I reminded my wife not to let people use my computer when i'm not around Thanks |
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Yep, but they'll just be readded when that account logs into Messenger again.
-- Jonathan Kay Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Live Messenger Associate Expert http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/ Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2006 Jonathan Kay. You *must* contact me for redistribution rights. -- "Kevin" wrote in message ... Thanks, that worked. It is possible just to delete the accounts from regedit in the manner that you described since there are numerous listed that I don't care to have on there? Thanks again, Kevin "Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote: Greetings, This is actually a feature. To remove this, click Start, then click Run and enter "regedit.exe" and click OK. Then navigate (it's like Windows Explorer) to My Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Wind ows\CurrentVersion\UnreadMail\yourmsnname@hotmail. com Where is the passport. Double-click the MessageCount and enter 0 as the value (this will set back to none). Then click OK, close the registry editor, and log out to see the change. -- Jonathan Kay Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Live Messenger Associate Expert http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/ Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2006 Jonathan Kay. You *must* contact me for redistribution rights. -- "Kevin" wrote in message ... I'm running Windows XP and have four accounts that one can log into. I have a friend who will log on under one of the accounts and check his Hotmail account. After he is done and I go to the logon screen, it will say "xx unread messages" and if I click on this link it will show his email addrsss that he used. How do I get rid of this without him coming back and logging back on and reading all of his messages? I thought I found the solution one time where I deleted his Passport account in a setting, but I can't seem to find where I did that now. And again I reminded my wife not to let people use my computer when i'm not around Thanks |
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