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How To Remove Instant Messaging Users for Windows Messenger on Windows XP-Based Computers

This is a Microsoft article reprinted here

 
Article ID : 310705
Last Review : July 15, 2004
Revision : 1.0

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SUMMARY

When you use Windows Messenger to log on to the .NET Passport service for the first time on a computer that is running either Windows XP Home Edition or Windows XP Professional, the information that you use to log on is displayed in a list of user accounts that is maintained by Windows. After you quit and then restart Windows Messenger, your user name is displayed in the list of Windows Messenger users.

This step-by-step article describes how to remove the user logon information from the list of user accounts in Windows and from the list of Windows Messenger users.

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How to Remove an Instant Messaging User Account from the List of Windows Messenger Users

To remove an instant messaging user account from the list of Windows Messenger users:

For users of stand-alone or workgroup computers:

  1. Go to control panel (This link will open in a different window) or right click on the Desktop and click on Properties
  2. Double-click User Accounts
  3. Click your user account
  4. Under Related Tasks, Click Manage my network passwords
  5. Click the user account you want to remove in the Stored User Name and Passwords box
  6. Click Remove
  7. Click OK
  8. Click Close

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For users of computers that are joined to a domain:

  1. Click Start
  2. Double-click User Accounts.
  3. Click the Advanced tab
  4. Click Manage Passwords in the Passwords and .NET Passport box.
  5. In Stored Users and Passwords, click the user account that you want to remove
  6. Click Remove
  7. Click OK
  8. Click Close
  9. Click OK

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Applies to

• Microsoft Windows Messenger 4.0, when used with:
    Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
    Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition
• Microsoft Windows Messenger 4.5, when used with:
    Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
    Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition
• Microsoft Windows Messenger 4.6, when used with:
    Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
    Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition

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