msn plus

does anyone else have this? and does anyone know if you can turn the sound off it? cause i listen to music on my computer while i'm on, cept people keep on sending me messages like /sdoh and /shello which incluse sounds and they get sooooooo irritating...😛

"Messenger" is microsofts attempt at "direct messaging" between you and others on line who share a "subscription" to a group. It doesn't work and people are able to trash you with spam. The worst of it is that even by going to windows control panel and uninstalling it as a windows service, it keeps coming back unless you know how to hack the registry. I tried twice but ended up killing the op system. It's just another example of really poor design by microtrash inc... fdisk is the only good program microsoft ever published, and it is the backbone of their system.

i quite like it-most of my friends use it, and it works fine for me, plus i've got and msn passport thingy that lets me use it without a hotmail or msn e-mail address, so i get no spam!

MSN works great for me, and its a major way of me keeping in touch with friends now that I'm in a different country.

I've never had any spam messages - maybe because it's registered to a hotmail account I never use so noone gets a record that is exists unless I give it to them?

And as for turning the sound of, I haven't tried. Sorry.

to turn the sounds off, go to your control panel, then sounds and audio devises, sounds, then scroll down until you see the section for msn messenger.

that's for normal msn-i no how to do that in the msn window thingy etc, but i got some weird add on program called msnplus that i can't turn the sound messages off of...😛

Originally posted by genius
does anyone else have this? and does anyone know if you can turn the sound off it? cause i listen to music on my computer while i'm on, cept people keep on sending me messages like /sdoh and /shello which incluse sounds and they get sooooooo irritating...😛

About msn for people who got win xp or win 2000 and have a flood of spam poping up while they're on the net, there's the solution:

You got to set the messenger service off

Setting->control panel->administrative tools->services->(double click)Messenger

On the "general" tab click on the "stop" button and you won't have any problem of spam from your msn

messenger is a old windows nt service of messaging over a network called net send. The spammers use net send with your ip to send you anoying windows.

Hope that's gonna help some peoples....

Yan

Buy a Mac. Your troubles will be at an end. 😵

Originally posted by rwingett
Buy a Mac. Your troubles will be at an end. 😵

Originally posted by Danforth
Yeah, buy a Mac and you won't have the power of a PC for a much higher price! You'll get a cool design though... 😛

Yan

Originally posted by Danforth
Yeah, buy a Mac and you won't have the power of a PC for a much higher price! You'll get a cool design though... 😛

Yan

Originally posted by trekkie
"All the power" in a PC is wasted running huge overhead from crap microsoft OS.

genius, it should work for msn plus (i have it too).

or, in the message box, just type /sconfig and untick the box at the bottom, that gets rid of the sound messages.
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