MSN on startup 1

[BIS]

Hallo,

First let me admit I am not a windows user...

I have a little irritation. My newly installed XP machine automatically logs me into MSN on bootup. Also, on the login screen, it states that so and so many emails are waiting.
Questions:
How do I stop msn form starting and automatically logging me in at startup (and can I change which user msn login is logged in automatically if I wanted to) ?
What do the "you have xx mail" under the login icon refer to?
Any help appreciated.

 

[Palagast]

Bis,

You can disable the automatically starting up of MSN Messenger in the program itself.
Click Tools -> Options -> General (hope these are the proper translations). Uncheck the checkbox that looks something like 'Start Messenger when logging on to Windows'.

If you want to change the user it automatically logs in with, log off of Messenger after logging in. Click 'Click here if you want to log in as an other user', log in as that user and from that moment on you'll log in as the desired user.

Hope this helps

 

[BIS]

Thanks
And the "you have xx mail" under the login icon - any ideas?

 

[Nelviticus]

It tells you how many items you have in your inbox for your email client (Outlook Express by default). I think you can disable this in the user or logon settings if you want.

Nelviticus

 

[BIS]

Many thanks - I guess its taking that info from Outlook then. So on bootup XP actually querries the pop3 server from my ISP?
Where do I find the logon settings?

 

[smah]

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/xp_mailnotify.htm

 

[Palagast]

I use a Hotmail address for MSN, so when messenger logs on, it checks my Hotmail via passport as well. Don't know how this is done with non-passport e-mail adresses.

The settings I gave you can be found in the messenger program itself.

By the way, the "You have XXX new e-mail messages" won't pop-up if you don't log in so that won't be a problem for you.

 

[Nelviticus]

It doesn't query the POP3 server, as far as I recall the numbers just refer to unread messages in your inbox. I'm not sure because I use Courier for my email, which (thankfully) isn't supported by this particular 'feature' of XP.

Nelviticus

 

[BIS]

Thank you all, and smah, that was a little gem..