IM Keeps Resetting My Status

[MartinLiss]

I keep setting my IM status to Away but after a while it gets reset to OnLine. Anyone know why that happens and how to prevent it?

[NoteMe]

Are you away from your machine while it happens. It is at least a setting that says how many minutes it should take before it sets it to Away.

If you are sitting on your PC and using both your keyboard and mouse, then it must be a bug.


Are we talking MSN here. If so press:

Tools->Preferences. Then check what it says in the check box where it should say something like:

My Status:
Show me as away when I have been idle for *** min.




Sorry if the translation of the MSN menues are not 100%...


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[MartinLiss]

It's just the opposite. I set it to Away and it changes it back to Online.

[Ideas Man]

Are you running Messenger Plus! by any chance?

[MartinLiss]

No, just plain old Windows Messenger version 4.7.

[RobDog888]

Martin, I set up Windows Messenger 4.7 and set my status to away. While using the keyboard and
mouse for over an hour it didnt get set back to OnLine. Were you being active or did your system go
into standby or hibernate or ???

[MartinLiss]

No standby or hibernate, but the good(?) news is that it's not happening any more. Maybe it's some program that I use that affects it.

[RobDog888]

Guess you just need to keep an eye on it to see if its a particular program that interferes
with it. How about some kind of irritating virus?

[MartinLiss]

I don't think it's a virus. I'm very well protected.

[NoteMe]

If you are running a full screen app, like a game or windows media player and you press Alt+F4, that can change your status. Except that, I am not aware of any apps that manage to change it.


But if it doesn't happen anymore, there is no problem. But if it happens again, and you get irritated, downloading MSN messenger might help.