MSN Messenger Auto log in

Lady_K

As my daughter had her laptop stolen just over a week ago she remembered that her msn messenger was on automatic sign in, she didnt have to put a password in. So we changed it straight away but it just occured to me, was the auto sign in a setting on that laptop that would still auto sign in without a password even though we changed the password on this computer at home?

She had to put the old password in to change it so if anyone did get in they couldnt change it as they wouldnt know the original one. We just want to be sure no one is getting into her mail even now with auto sign in on that laptop

mobfant

I wouldn't have thought so, but if you've got a computer at home you can test it yourself. Set up auto sign on Messenger and check that it works, then change the hotmail password via hotmail and see if messenger still signs in.

shutton54321

No the password has been changed so they cant access it, when it auto signs in it checks the username and password, so you dont have a prob!

Lady_K

Thanx, it was set to remember username and password though and start up as soon as windows started and log in once the internet is connected so is that still ok?

Rikki

Lady_K wrote:

Thanx, it was set to remember username and password though and start up as soon as windows started and log in once the internet is connected so is that still ok?

Once you change the password on one computer it is changed for all computers. I change mine frequently and swap from laptop to desktop and if I forget to change it on both I can't log in.

Lady_K

Rikki wrote:

Once you change the password on one computer it is changed for all computers. I change mine frequently and swap from laptop to desktop and if I forget to change it on both I can't log in.

Thanx Rikki thats definitely answered it:)