Status changes by itself

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.messenger (More info?)

Hi,
When you lock or Sleep the computer,MSN will show"Busy".
If you want to show offline,please don't sleep or lock your computer!
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Hope it can help you


"Mark" wrote:

> i set status to appear offline
>
> program changes status to online by itself
>
> i am not at my machine (it is actually locked)
>
> why does it do this and can you stop it!
>
>
>

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.messenger (More info?)

hi there

thanks for your reply

i am using the latest version

i believe it is related to the option "show me as away when i'm inactive for
n minutes" and/or the "show me as busy and block my alerts when i'm running
a full screen program..."

these options were checked last time...i have since unchecked them and my
status remained the same.

ie: at the end of the day i would set my status to "appear offline" and
lock my pc but in the morning i would come in to find my status was
"online". since turning off the above options the status has remained as
"appear offline"


"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" <msnewsreplies@jonathankay.com> wrote in message
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> Greetings Mark,
>
> Are you using an older version of Messenger? If so, older versions if
> disconnected, didn't handle the status properly. MSN Messenger 7 does
> handle this situation correctly though:
> http://messenger.msn.com/download
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> "Mark" <noone@nowhere.com> wrote in message
> news:u0xK$%23WjFHA.320@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>>i set status to appear offline
>>
>> program changes status to online by itself
>>
>> i am not at my machine (it is actually locked)
>>
>> why does it do this and can you stop it!
>>
>
>