I to have the same problem did all the checks to see if anything had been
altered. I started getting this problem when I went on MSN site.

"mickey71" wrote:

> sorry! I forgot to mention that I tried the fixauto.reg and rebooted. That
> didn't work for me...upon rebooting, I still had to sign in manually.
>
> "mickey71" wrote:
>
> > I am having an intermittent issue signing in automatically to Windows
> > Messenger 5.1.0680. Sometimes when I turn on my computer, WM automatically
> > signs in, but most of the time it does not. I do not have MSN Messenger
> > installed as far as I know (it is not listed in add/remove programs although
> > I didn't install MSN Explorer expressly and somehow that got installed on my
> > computer). I am using Windows XP Professional with ALL available updates
> > from Microsoft Update installed. I am using Norton Internet Security 2005.
> > I have a Pentium 4 CPU, 2.40GHz, 704 MB RAM (this is a laptop).
> >
> > I have checked the WM options/preferences and "Run Windows Messenger when
> > Windows starts" IS checked. I DO prefer that it start automatically, but
> > like I stated, most of the time it doesn't. Could you please help me resolve
> > this issue? It's really irritating me.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any help.