How do i prevent the outlook logout from redirecting to msn?

I thought that the garbage was only in the mexican version of MSN page, we should not be forced to enter that page.

this pisses me off, so much so that i ended up here to try remove it.

the MSN page is full of nothing but utter rubbish. i don't care what "celeb" took a selfie while sitting on the toilet. complete waste of internet space that page is..garbage.

also in all the years i've ended up on answers.microsoft i have yet to see anything answered. they should rename it dancesaroundthequestion.microsoft, bring back the old MSN messenger.

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Thank you for posting your issue here in Microsoft Community Forum.

Let me help you with your issue. I understand that

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Looks to met the thread starts of with an whole bunch of automated responses, but i'm relieved to see i'm not the only one that thinks the redirect to (and the layout and content of) the msn page is so annoying it has became the one places on Internet i never ever want to see again in whole of my life.

Opera : has a textfile where you can add domains to block

Firefox : use adblocker

but the best way (which works for all browsers you have or even might use in the future) :

point msn.com to any blackhole in the universe you like via your hosts file

c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

       127.0.0.1       *.msn.com

Ok, It looks like it's allowed to give you some software recommendations, I'm giving you guys the easiest fix, a browser redirector.

For Firefox look for the add-on called redirector, open the add-on options and click "New redirect" then you can enter a description, in "Example URL" type "http://msn.com/*" then in "Include pattern" type "http://msn.com/*", then in "Redirect to" type "https://signout.live.com/content/dam/imp/surfaces/mail_signout/v7/mail/en-us.html" (or any other url you want), check the "wildcard" checkbox and the "Enabled" checkbox.

You have to repeat the steps for every url you get redirected to, for example "http://www.bing.*"

That will make your browser redirect to the signout form (or any url you want). But you wont be able to visit that url unless you disable the redirector entry.

I haven't tried this one too much but for Chrome you can download the Switcheroo Redirectoradd-on. With this add-on you can redirect from  http://www.msn.com/ to https://signout.live.com/content/dam/imp/surfaces/mail\_signout/v7/mail/en-us.html or any url you want.

Hi Moi-MA,

Thanks for the tip, it worked a treat. :-)

Just one point: I had to use "http://www.msn.com/*" where you've got "http://msn.com/*" , or Redirector wouldn't work properly.

(I see that you've got "http://www.msn.com/" lower down in your post, so the "www" was probably just forgotten.)

The exact login page may vary too; mine wound up being "http://login.live.com/login.srf?wa=wsignin1.0&rpsnv=10&ct=1246733616&rver=5.5.4177.0&wp=MBI&wreply=http:%2F%2Fmail.live.com%2Fdefault.aspx&lc=1033&id=64855&mkt=en-AU" which just rolls off the tongue, doesn't it ... NOT :-) so perhaps just use a web address of your choice instead.

Thanks again,

Kind regards,

Roger V.

This works in Ausstralia for Firefox.

Have the issue with the Portal tickler page freezing and can't select ninemsn, msn or don't bother me again.

You proably have Adblock Plus installed and it blocks the redirection. If you have this problem then click on the Adblock icon and select Disable on this page only and you can then select the redirection to any of the three and you'll then never see the portal tickler page again.

If you want to change the redirection or stop redirection to msn etc then if you have Adblock Plus running, unintall then reinstall and you'll get the page freeze so you go through the exercise again. If you don't have Adblock Plus installed then do so to get the freeze and follow the previous steps to setup your redirection.