windows messenger to hotmail

I have just rebuilt my laptop and now windows messenger has changed.
before when i received mail with my hotmail.com address i would receive a
message on my desktop and then i could go to windows messenger and click on
goto my email account, which then opened a iexplorer window and went to my
email inbox at hotmail. but now it goes to my microsoft outlook inbox.
I dont want hotmail connected to outlook so i always goto hotmail via the web.
how can i change this setting?

Greetings,

This feature no longer exists in Windows Messenger. You need to use Windows Live Messenger
instead:
http://get.live.com/messenger/config

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Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
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"rampanthorse" <rampanthorse@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I have just rebuilt my laptop and now windows messenger has changed.
> before when i received mail with my hotmail.com address i would receive a
> message on my desktop and then i could go to windows messenger and click on
> goto my email account, which then opened a iexplorer window and went to my
> email inbox at hotmail. but now it goes to my microsoft outlook inbox.
> I dont want hotmail connected to outlook so i always goto hotmail via the web.
> how can i change this setting?