This tutorial is for all those Gmail Account Holders that whis to use A Gmail Account with MSN Messenger & .Net Passport Service

An Introduction :
In this tutorial you will learn how to step up your Gmail Accout with . net passport to allow u to login to MSN messenger ang any .net passport supported website

What you will need :

* A Gmail Account
* Msn Messenger / Windows Messenger - used to verify your gmail account.

Once you have downloaded / obtained all of these you are ready to continue.

1. Log in to your gmail account via - http://gmail.com

2. Load up MSN Messenger and cancel any automatic sign in attempt so that you have it ready to sign in with your gmail account later on .

3. You will need to visit the Microsoft .Net Passport website - http://www.passport.net

4. Now you will need to click on the register for your free .net passport today button that is in the top right hand corner of the page.

5. That will take you to a registration page. Fill in the from as you would if you where filling a hotmail account accept when asked for your email account you would enter myaccount@gmail.com

6. Once the registration of you .net registerd gmail account has been made , sign in to Msn messenger using this newly registerd account , you will notice that when you sign in to messenger your messenger name will be youraccount@gmail.com (un verified ) and you wont be able to change it , this is solved below.

7. as soon as you have signed in , a message will appere in an information box ( the same as when a contact sign in ) , click on this and you will be taken through the process of Verifying your account the reason you have to go throogh this is because at current gmail is not affiliated with .net passport e.g .netpassport doesn't recgonise the @gmail.com as a valid email provider therefore they cannot automatically verify your account ( hotmail and msn auto verify as there .net passport affiliated websites) ,

8.Once you have been taken through the verification process you will be asked to log in to your email account and visit the url given in an email form the .net passport verifcation service , maximize the internet browser window that you signed in to gmail on earlier , you will have 2 emails form .net passport the first will be welcoming you to .netpassport , the second will be the one we are after , the verification email , open this up find the url to finish verifying your email adress ( usually its either the first to thirs url in the email)

9. Once you have completed these actions and you have been told that your gmail account is verifed , sign out of msn messenger , then re sign back in ( you dont need to wait for any period of time just sign out then straight back in again) , you will now notice the (not verifed) had been removed form your msn name , and now you are able to change ther name to , if this is so, then congratulations you now have a fully functioning .net passport gmail account ( you cannot access your gmail email account via msn messenger you will still have to visit the gmail login page for this ) http://gmail.com

10. If for any reasons this did not work , and you again receive the message asking you to verify , or you haven't recieved your verification email from .netpassport , then re-try steps 2 - 7 , until you get it working correctly .

I hope this helps some of you gmail account users out there that have been wracking your brains over how to get gmail in to msn messenger