How to Turn Off or ON Windows Live Messenger’s Sign In Feature

3May/090

How to Turn Off or ON Windows Live Messenger’s Sign In Feature

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Windows Live Messenger (WLM) has a feature that allows user to signin at multiple PCs or devices (e.g. PDA and mobile phones) at the same time. Is it a good feature to have or not? To me, it is better to disable the feature for security purpose.

To turn off the signin multiple PC feature in WLM, open your messenger, click on the "Show menu" icon on the right. And then select "Tools" > "Options".

An options window will be shown up. Click on the "Sign In" section on your left, remember to check the "Sign me out of all other places when I signin to Messenger" and "Show me all the other places I'm signed in at when I sign in". Finally, click "OK" to save the changes.

The first option will force the signed in session in other PC to be expired and the second option will show the PC you have signed in at other place. To me, the second option is pretty important because you will know whether you have forgotten to sign out your account at other people PC (e.g. cybercafer); or whether someone is using you account (or someone has hacked to your account for certain purpose). Then you can take neccessary action like changing your account's password or report to Mircrosoft if you suspect someone has hacked into your account.