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I want to change my sign-in address to my new e-mail address.
This page (http://support.microsoft.com/gp/Messenger) seems to say that if you change your e-mail address, you won’t need to tell any of your contacts – they’ll find out automatically:
“If I change my old sign-in ID, will I need to tell all my contacts that my instant message name has changed? No. Windows Live Messenger Service will take care of updating everyone’s contact lists with your new sign-in ID. Changing your sign-in ID will not change your Messenger display name, so if you use a friendly name, you’ll appear the same to your contacts. It may take up to one hour for the system to update your contacts. During this time, you may appear offline. In some instances, a user that has you as a contact may have to sign off and back in to see the change in your profile. Your new sign-in ID is for the Microsoft Passport Network or Windows Live sign-in only.”
However, I’ve heard of people having more difficulty than this would indicate. In searching this forum, I see that some people change their ID only to have all their contacts appear offline.
Also, I can’t figure out where to change my ID. When I go to http://account.live.com I can’t see any link to change my sign-in ID.
Can anybody offer any help?? Thanks!
Thanks for the reply. Because you can use any email address as an ID, it most certainly can come up where you need to change it. The following post, by a Windows Live Spaces/Messenger team member, more accurately articulates what I’m trying to do and why:
Passport Renaming: Changing the email address associated with an MSN Space or MSN Messenger accountMSN services such as MSN Spaces and MSN Messenger require one to create a Passport account to use them. Passport requires the use of an email address which is used as the login name of the user. However as time progresses people often have to change email addresses for one reason or the other. On such occassions I’ve seen a couple of requests internally asking for the ability to change the Passport account an MSN Spaces or MSN Messenger account is associated with.
Doing this is actually quite straightforward in the general case. All one has to do is go to the Passport.net website and click on the ‘View or edit your profile’ link which should have an option for changing the email address associated with the Passport. And that’s it.
Thanks to a recent changes made by some of the devs on our team, the renaming process now works seamlessly in MSN Messenger. You don’t have to import your existing contact list to the new account nor do your contacts have to add the new email address to their contact list. Instead the change to your email address propagates across the MSN network in about an hour or so.
The are some caveats. The first is that renaming a Passport to a Hotmail account isn’t supported at the current time. Another is that you may be prevented from changing your display name from the new email address in MSN Messenger for some time. This means that your friends will see you in their contact list as yourname@example.com (if that is your email address).
The above information also applies if you’ve been asked to change your MSN Messenger email address because your employer is deploying Microsoft Live Communications Server 2005 with Public IM Connectivity (PIC).
http://www.passport.net allows you to change your id i guess.
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