Messenger Feature Requests

Two very important features, as far as I'm concerned.

1. I want to use the same account on all of my computers. When I log in to
one, I don't want it to disconnect from the other such that when I go to the
other, I have to remember to log in. At least MSN Messenger would pop up and
say, "you've been disconnected because you logged on on another computer"
Neither Messenger, Office Communicator or Live Messenger do that.

Ideally, if I start using the computer -- mouse and keyboard is being
used, just log in for me. If you really want to disconnect from the other
machines for some technical reason, fine.

2. For some reason, each time I restart my computer at home, I have to
relogin in to Live Messenger. I don't know why it does that, consider I've
said save password, and everything. When i log in, and mark all the save
options, then exit messenger, and launch it again, it works -- it remembers
the pw. But, if I restart the computer, it forgets.

These two features would be a great enhancement!

Greetings,

1. Windows Messenger, MSN Messenger and Windows Live Messenger all will tell you when you've
logged into another computer. Office Communicator won't tell you this as you can sign in
from multiple locations. Of course, AIM has allowed you to sign into multiple PCs fora while
now, so it would be nice if Messenger had this also.

2. Have you tried to shut down Messenger manually (right-click the icon and choose Exit)
instead of just restarting/shutting down? This isn't the intended behavior either.

--
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.
--


"Kenneth Kasajian" <Kenneth > wrote in message
newsE90181C-D8B7-4E8B-A4ED-...
> Two very important features, as far as I'm concerned.
>
> 1. I want to use the same account on all of my computers. When I log in to
> one, I don't want it to disconnect from the other such that when I go to the
> other, I have to remember to log in. At least MSN Messenger would pop up and
> say, "you've been disconnected because you logged on on another computer"
> Neither Messenger, Office Communicator or Live Messenger do that.
>
> Ideally, if I start using the computer -- mouse and keyboard is being
> used, just log in for me. If you really want to disconnect from the other
> machines for some technical reason, fine.
>
> 2. For some reason, each time I restart my computer at home, I have to
> relogin in to Live Messenger. I don't know why it does that, consider I've
> said save password, and everything. When i log in, and mark all the save
> options, then exit messenger, and launch it again, it works -- it remembers
> the pw. But, if I restart the computer, it forgets.
>
> These two features would be a great enhancement!

You are correct. Let me elaborate on what I'm saying.

With MSN messenger, it's very obvious to me when when I go to a computer
that had my session logged off because I was on another computer. And I say
"very obvious" is because there's a big box in the task notification area
that says so. Windows Live Messenger I don't see that box. The live
messenger icon in the task notification area *does* indicate that I've been
logged off, but that's not as obvious to me.. and a whole day could go by
without my noticing it.

However, regardless of that particular feature, I think something that's
*better* than AIM can be done.

But what if we were to say, rather than log off, the messenger goes into
dormant mode. It doesn't wake up again until the user gets back.

The "waking up" feature will only work if only one of the computers is being
used by a person. If more than one computer is being used at the same time,
all sessions stay dormant, until one of them is explicity initiated.


Feature Request 3:
Allow multiple Live accounts to be logged in at the same time. I want to be
able log into my wife's computer's messneger account, without deactivating
hers.