Vista - Hotmail from live messenger

Hi all, When I open hotmail from windows live messenger, the page opens from an already open internet explorer web page + a new one with a message saying that the email address or password is incorrect. Does it happen to anyone else here? any solutions? Thanks in advance. pepene.

p.s. it never happened in XP but is happening on my new vista

Hi Pepene,

Welcome to the forum.

Since you have a Hotmail account, you might consider switching to Windows Live Mail Beta 2 (WLM) instead of Windows Mail. This way Windows Live Messenger will open the Hotmail inbox in WLM instead of IE7.

WLM supports Pop3, IMAP, HTTP website (EX: Hotmail) email, and is a lot more stable. Plus, WLM will minimize to a tray bar icon and has a separate Inbox for each account. WLM will automatically import Windows Mail messages, accounts, and settings into it. Contacts will have to be manually imported from within WLM. (Tools, Contacts, File, Import, Address book for current Windows User.) To see the Menu bar, press ALT+M and check "Show all menus".

For US and UK (32 bit Vista):
http://get.live.com/betas/maildesktop_betas
For US and UK (64 bit Vista):
Windows Live Beta 2 Suite Downloads
For non-US and non-UK locations (direct download):
http://g.live.com/1rebeta/WLM_en-us

Shawn

Thanks Shawn really appreciate ur response, Don't know why Mr Gates didnt stick to the saying " if it ain't broke, don't fix it" anyway guess Ill have to get used to this, even with this windows live mail, to know if u have got new mail, u have to open MSN and then it does the same thing like open in an already open browser and thats annoying as you lose ur work!

Pepene,

Windows Live Mail Beta 2 (WLM) will allow you to read your Hotmail through it like normal email instead of through Windows Live Messenger or the Hotmail website. You may need to do the sign in for Windows Live Messenger with you username and password the first time, but it should work.

Shawn

Sorry in fact what I was referring to are the linka from the emails for instance that opens in a browser rather than a new window and thats annoying! any suggestions shawn?

Oh Ok Pepene,

Yeah that can be annoying. You can change the settings in IE7 for tab browsing so that Open links from other programs in: is set to either A new window or A new tab in current window.

See this tutorial for how: How to Use Tabbed Browsing in Internet Explorer in Vista

Shawn

Thanks Shawn, Kind of sorted now, cheers, pepene.

Glad to hear it Pepene.

Shawn