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Using Gmail or Non Hotmail/MSN/Live Email Address in Windows Live Messenger

Posted By Raymond In Category: Computer

Aug
26
2010

I am sure most people have a Hotmail email account. For me, Hotmail was my first email account and my cousin helped me registered it 16 years ago. Back then the 2 most popular free email service provider was Hotmail and Yahoo. Google’s Gmail is still unheard of because they only started in year 2004. Back then most people were using ICQ messenger and for some unknown reason everyone started to switch to Windows Live Messenger (back then it was called MSN Messenger). As long as you have a Hotmail, MSN or Live account, you can instantly sign in to Windows Live Messenger.

However if you’ve noticed, some people uses their Gmail account or even their own personal domain name (such as raymond@raymond.com) to sign in to Windows Live Messenger. I never had the interest to know how to do that because I have my personal Hotmail account which I use to sign in to Windows Live Messenger. Recently one of my old friend that is not very good in computer wanted to use Windows Live Messenger to talk to his kids in overseas. He already have a Gmail account and he didn’t want to register an extra Hotmail account just for that as he claimed that old people find it harder to remember login names and passwords.

Gmail login Windows Live Messenger

If you try logging in to Windows Live Messenger with your Gmail username and password, it won’t work and you will only get the error “We can’t sign you in to Windows Live Messenger. The Windows Live ID or password you entered is incorrect. Error code: 80048821″. The trick is, you will still need to do a one time sign up for a Windows Live ID with your Gmail address.

1. Go to http://www.passport.net

2. Scroll down a bit and click on the Get started now link for Use an e-mail address you already have.

3. Enter your Gmail for email address, your password, secret question and answer and finally the verification code, then click the Continue button.

4. Review and sign the agreements by typing your email address in the box and click I Accept.

5. Login to your Gmail and you should receive an email from Windows Live Team asking you to confirm your email address for Windows Live ID. Click on the confirmation link to complete the process.

You can now sign in to Windows Live Messenger using your Gmail or non hotmail/msn/live email address. If you want people to add you to their Windows Live Messenger contact list, just give them your Gmail email address instead.


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    • Keypee S

      Good info. Thanks Raymond.

    • RonAg

      Thanks Ray, I guess this works also for yahoo accounts…

    • excite..

      unique..

    • neil

      I thought Gtalk was sufficient…lol..

    • Dave

      Figures. I’m still signing in to Messenger, using an obsolete e-mail address that no longer exists, as a user-name from an ISP that I abandoned long ago and has long since gone out of business.
      Incidentally, if you set up several different accounts, you can add contacts only for a particular account if you wish and they will be the only ones that will see you are on line when you sign in and available, if you wish to filter your contacts that way. I have all my original contacts showing when I sign in with my “old” user-name but have added only one contact to show when I sign in with my newer “Live” account when I don’t want the others to know I am on line.

    • Ahmad

      Awesome Raymond….Keep it up..

    • Linish

      Informative and nice article

    • http://www.raymond.cc/ Raymond

      @RonAg: Yes it works with Yahoo as well and any other email as long as it is a working one.

    • http://2ndsky.org/blog/ ice

      I believe signing in WLM with a GMail account meaning you can only chat with people, but the e-mail checker will always stay at 0.

    • INDRANIL

      Thank you Raymond for sharing the nice trick. As usual from you ;-).

    • DarkG

      Usefull tip, thank you Raymond

    • http://kennymcbride.blogspot.com/ kenny

      Useful advice, Like you hotmail was my first email account years ago and I still use it but I have several accounts now, good to know hot to use messenger with gmail accounts too. thanks.

    • http://indahnyatrg.blogspot.com sya

      Thank you for sharing the trick. Nice work!

    • KaYaN

      Is there any chance to copy/import YM contact list directly to this new WLM??

    • Darsh

      good one…

      thanks for the info raymond… :)

    • Raku

      u r the champ bro….

    • safeguy

      Great tip….sounds very useful. Ctrl+D;)

    • abdullah

      awesome trick

      can I do the same with yahoo account ?

    • play8oy

      Thank you. :)

    • :Neo:

      very useful info
      thx ray

    • http://Exportfromliveaccount,thenimporttonewliveaccount LasseFJ

      Am I the only one having huge troubles moving my contacts from my old Live Account to the new one?

      I’ve no trouble exporting, but when importing in the new account the system just states that it’s empty.

      (it’s really not as I can import them fine into my Google contacts)

    • balow

      Thx Raymond.

    • Ashok

      Hi Raymond!

      I found something wired with Gmail password. For long time I have been using a password with space at the beginning and end of the alphanumerical characters.
      e.g- ” passwd ” But actually Gmail doesn’t count if there is spaces at the beginning and end of the password. Basically you could use the space character as much as you like at the beginning and end with actual password, still you can sign in. I couldn’t find any article related to this …
      But I could exploit this feature(!) at times when some one try to count the number of characters in the password, by adding some spaces.

    • Eddy

      Thx for sharing the tip.

      Any ways to port over to a new email?

    • jasmine

      very useful info
      Thx Raymond

    • ling

      cannot share a picture

    • symphany

      Well i like all the texting stuff

    • joel

      hellou

    • ceu

      msn para gmail

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