touchstone

I reinstalled XP from scratch from the same CD after formatting the same partition once again with NTFS and when everything is done, my new Recycle Bin is again filled with what I had thrown in there last time in the previous copy of Win XP. *grrrr* What the heck!!!!! What was that reformat?

If I remember correctly there are some sites that allow you to talk to your MSN buddies without MSN Messenger installed on your PC?

Thanks very much folks. I understand unless I remove Windows Messenger I cannot rid myself of the autologon .NET feature. Hmm lets try trillian... Regards

Hmm I don't want to remove the account. I want the .NET Passport associated with the account removed, only. Like I just want to use Windows Messenger to log into the Messenger server so I can talk with my friends or at best click on the square popups to go read emails. I don't want what the official documents say "automatic login to .NET enabled Web sites and Web services..." Thanks and regards

I have two accounts 1. Administrator with another name 2. Guest And I didn't know why Messenger sign in stopped throwing the .NET Wizard popups but I was glad and signed in. Now in the Control Panel -> User Accounts I see this command alongside my account settings. "Change my .NET Passport" which means .NET Passport has been enabled with my computer account. :-( How to remove it? Regards

And you know what I cannot even log into Hotmail through hotmail.com because the first time the same Wizard popped up. I cancelled it. And now when I resubmit the login page, an error page comes up. :-(

Hi I want to use Windows Messenger without integration with .NET (of my user account on the system) but when I click on Sign In the .NET Passport Wizard comes up. Kindly help. Regards, touchstone