Away Idle doesn't work

My Live Messenger doesn't automatically set itself to AWAY after the defined
idle time (5min in my case).

I always show as online unless I set it.

Any ideas? I've uninstalled, purged the registry and re-installed. Still
no luck.

How do you define "idle"?
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org

msnews.microsoft.com wrote:
> My Live Messenger doesn't automatically set itself to AWAY after the
> defined idle time (5min in my case).
>
> I always show as online unless I set it.
>
> Any ideas? I've uninstalled, purged the registry and re-installed. Still
> no luck.

Greetings,

This functionality really doesn't work too well and never has as it doesn't work properly on
Remote Desktop connections and other applications can cause it to not work.

Keyboard macro programs, OEM keyboard monitors (especially on laptops), etc. all can disrupt
this from working -- unfortunately the only real way to determine what's causing it is
process of elimination.

Older versions of Messenger Plus actually had a way of doing this effectively working around
the problem, but Messenger Plus Live does not and as such, there's no real good solution for
this right now.

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Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2006 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
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"msnews.microsoft.com" <> wrote in message
news:...
> My Live Messenger doesn't automatically set itself to AWAY after the defined idle time
> (5min in my case).
>
> I always show as online unless I set it.
>
> Any ideas? I've uninstalled, purged the registry and re-installed. Still no luck.
>

"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" <> wrote in message
news:...
Good news is, apparently it will be in the next build of MsgPlus Live.

It works just great for me.
If I don't use my PC for 5 min (my case) the status "goes" to Away

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Vitalie Ciobanu
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http://aisberg.rau.ro


"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Greetings,
>
> This functionality really doesn't work too well and never has as it
> doesn't work properly on Remote Desktop connections and other applications
> can cause it to not work.
>
> Keyboard macro programs, OEM keyboard monitors (especially on laptops),
> etc. all can disrupt this from working -- unfortunately the only real way
> to determine what's causing it is process of elimination.
>
> Older versions of Messenger Plus actually had a way of doing this
> effectively working around the problem, but Messenger Plus Live does not
> and as such, there's no real good solution for this right now.
>
> --
> Jonathan Kay
> Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
> Associate Expert
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
> Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
> All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2006 Jonathan Kay.
> You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
> --
>
>
> "msnews.microsoft.com" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> My Live Messenger doesn't automatically set itself to AWAY after the
>> defined idle time (5min in my case).
>>
>> I always show as online unless I set it.
>>
>> Any ideas? I've uninstalled, purged the registry and re-installed.
>> Still no luck.
>>
>
>

This is the behavior that I observed. I set my Idle time to 1 minute and my
status was set to Away accordingly. I also tried 5 minutes and it worked.
However, I noticed that if WLM is actively getting Toast, that the status
will not be changed to Away.

<DIV>&quot;msnews.microsoft.com&quot; &lt;&gt; wrote in
message news:...</DIV>> My Live
Messenger doesn't automatically set itself to AWAY after the defined
> idle time (5min in my case).
>
> I always show as online unless I set it.
>
> Any ideas? I've uninstalled, purged the registry and re-installed. Still
> no luck.
>