Table of contents
- About Instant Messaging
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Connecting
- Sign in to .NET Messenger Service
- Sign in with a different account
- Sign out
- Connect from behind a proxy server
- Get a Microsoft .NET Passport
- Reset a forgotten Microsoft .NET Passport password
- Change your Microsoft .NET Passport password
- Delete your Microsoft .NET Passport information from your computer
- What is the Customer Experience Improvement Program?
- Participate in the Customer Experience Improvement Program
- Cancel your participation in the Customer Experience Improvement Program
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Creating a List of Contacts
- Add a contact to your list
- Remove someone from your contact list
- Is there a way to remove my name from another person's list?
- Allow others to add you without seeking your approval
- Sort your contacts into groups
- Create a new group in your contact list
- Rename a group
- Delete an empty group
- Move or copy contacts to a different group
- Remove someone from a group
- Save your contact list on your computer
- Add contacts from a saved file
- Share your contact list
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Sending Messages and Files
- Send an instant message
- Open an instant message
- Send a picture or other file to someone
- What happens when a file is sent to you?
- Open a sent file
- Send an instant message to someone who is not on your list
- Add other people to a conversation
- Change how your message text looks during a conversation
- Set the format of your outgoing messages
- Use emoticons in messages to show feelings
- Set the size of text that you read
- Save a conversation
- Send e-mail
- Read e-mail
- What is a virus?
- Why some file transfers are blocked
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Seeing and Being Seen
- See who added you
- View a list of the people who can see you
- Change the way your name appears to other people
- Change your status
- Change the time that elapses before Away status appears
- Turn off Away status
- See others without being seen
- Block someone from seeing and contacting you
- Block all messages from people you don't know
- Unblock someone you have blocked
- Block someone who is not on your list
- Calling Contacts
- Receiving Alerts
- Sharing Programs
- Using Tabs
- Configuring Windows Messenger
- Sending and Receiving Ink
- Tips and Troubleshooting
- Using Windows Messenger from Behind Firewalls