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

Hi Edgar

we all know that we are being redirected to MSM by design what we would like you to help us with is to let us know how we can prevent this.  I have no interest in cleb gossip and would like to be brough back to the outlook log in page again.

I changed from gmail because I was sick of them reading my email to send me spam advertising will I have to leave outlook to avoid more spam?

Judith

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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,

What a perfect statement to describe Microsoft's answer to this problem. They NEVER give you a straight answer.

I was given the option to go to the local msn or global msn and I always clicked on local. Now I only get redirected back to the global site.

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.

I have similar issues to some of the above posters. It is frustrating to have no control of the page you are directed to when logging out of Hotmail. The MSN homepages are in my opinion very poor journalism, full of sensationalism and unbalanced gossip. As a Christian I actually find the content very offensive.

To make matters worse, I am now redirected to MSN (USA) even though I live in England, making the content even less useful that it was before.

I am going to use one of the software solutions suggested by a poster earlier, but just wanted to express to Microsoft how dissatisfied I am with this problem.