Hello Don SA and welcome,

Windows Live Messenger gives you the option to ‘appear offline’ to your contacts. However, even though you are appearing offline, you are still given the ability to chat with your contacts. But with that said, Windows Live Messenger also gives your contacts the ability to leave you “offline messages” whether you are signed in and appeared offline or signed out of messenger entirely.

Chances are they are leaving you offline messages or taking a chance at you being online but appeared offline as you said.

Hopefully I’m on the right track here with your question:)

Hey wishmaster,

It sounds like MSN is detecting your TV Tuner and that is why msn shows your contacts that you have a webcam. As for the reason you can’t disable under options which you have tried it sounds, i don’t know why that would not work. I would suggest trying to disable your TV Tuner device under ‘Device Manager’ if possible without affecting any other devices that may rely on that particular device. It might be worth a shot

Hello again wishmaster

It seems that your computer is recognizing something as a video capturing device. Could you tell us what is listed exactly under Video setup.

Do you have any other equipment like a digital camera, TV Tuner or any other hardware which is used to capture video or images?

If you are familiar with using your computers ‘Device Manager’ then you can try looking there for Imaging Devices, you can find this by:
Right-clicking My Computer > Properties > Hardware > Device Manager and from there you see a list of categories of different hardware devices, and there may be one as Imaging Devices which is probably the cause of this problem.
Try that out and let us know what happens!

Hello wishmaster and welcome,

Just a quick suggestion, perhaps try downloading and reinstalling a fresh copy of Windows Live Messenger for possibly a quick-fix.

Also just to clearify, when you go through the Video and Audio setup wizard, is there any type of video capturing device listed at all? Or is it just an empty list?

Hopefully we can help you to solve this problem ASAP!

Hello msnuser07, welcome;

Can you enlighten us with which version of Messenger and OS you use?

If you are able to view yourself in the wizard just fine, there may be a connection problem between you and your contact. Possibly a block by a firewall.

When you try inviting a contact to view your webcam, does the webcam only show a still image? In this midst of this, is your contact able to hear you through the mic?

Thanks for your question and hopefully we can resolve it!:)

Hey there dcman,

Have you tried MSN Messenger’s Audio & Video Setup wizard? (Tools > Audio & Video Setup)

From there you should be able to see what video capturing devices are available for video conversations.

Hey there stitch and welcome to BigBlueBall!

Your issue is fairly simple to correct. However, the Control Panel mentioned in the instructions you posted is referring to Windows Control Panel in the Start menu:

Start Menu > Control Panel > Users > Click on your Windows XP username > Click on ‘Manage my network passwords’ > Delete desired email address from login history

OR[/b]

Try this method (type in the red):

Start > Run > control userpasswords2 > Click on the “Advanced” tab > Click ‘Manage Password’

hey jackgreat,

If you’d like to get rid of the “Sign In As…”, please use the following procedure:

Remove all the addresses plus the Passport.Net* (Passport).

And in the future, do not[/b] click “Sign Me In Automatically” when you go to enter your email and password.

Good luck!