After that, you can open Windows Live Messenger in any of these ways:
Start menu Choose Start | All Programs | Windows Live Messenger.
Quick Launch toolbar Click the icon (if you let the installer create it).
Desktop Double-click the icon (again, if you let the installer create it).
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Whichever way you start Windows Live Messenger, you see the main Windows
Live Messenger window (see Figure 4-1). Windows Live Messenger uses separate
windows for conversations with other users, as you??™ll see in a minute.
Create a Windows Live ID
To use Windows Live Messenger, you need a Windows Live ID, an electronic identifier
with Microsoft??™s Windows Live service. Windows Live ID is the new name for the
electronic ID that started life as Microsoft Passport and then became Microsoft .NET
Passport.
If you have created a Hotmail account or an MSN (Microsoft Network) account,
you do not need to create a Windows Live ID, because you already have one. Otherwise,
follow these steps to create a Windows Live ID:
Click the Sign Up For A Windows Live ID link near the bottom of the main
Windows Live Messenger window. Messenger opens an Internet Explorer
window to the Windows Live ID sign-up page.
Click the Sign Up button, and then follow through the process of creating an
account.
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Figure 4-1
The main Windows Live
Messenger window
appears like this the first
time you run Windows
Live Messenger.
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