I am new back to messenger, but I am sure that there used to be a 'beep' when a contact signed in, or sent an IM - anyone any ideas?

I misspelt my sign in name and it still comes up as an option when I enter the first letter each time I sign in. How can I delete it?
My picture keeps getting updated with pornographic pictures from a **** site. I never used this site. Everytime I change my picture back to something appropriate, it eventually gets updated again with these **** pictures. What do I do?The **** site URL appears on the home page as the site that has updated my picture. When I right click to delete the URL it doesn't allow me to do so. Also, when I sign in to Windows live Messenger I used to be able to click on my inbox and access my messages. Now it prompts me to sign in again in Hotmail...
I had to download the new messenger the other day and ever since I have downloaded it, every time i sign in, it goes to "Not Responding" and I have uninstalled a million times, reinstalled a million times, restarted my computer, changed settings, and did everything that Iv found on the net to do but nothing works!! Help!?
configuration of laptop is either english or french and in my calendar it's in deutch and when I sign out of hotmail, it's always opening msn in deutch !!!
never wanted nor asked for that language
Hi,
  my email account (Removed PII) has been blocked.  I sign in and it comes up with a screen that says "Your account has been temporarily blocked" I tried to get it to send me a code  and changee my password but still no luck. Can you help? thanks
When I try to sign in to messenger, a pop up tells me i must install the latest version before I can, but when I try to install it, it stops at 1% and wont progress past that. What do I do now?