disabling or deleting Windows Messenger

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L.Vlug

I've read some of your recent msgs, and not find a
problem exactly like mine. I am running Windows XP, and
my preferred messenger programs are MSN Messenger and
Yahoo Messenger. I use Outlook Express to connect to my
Telus email account...althought I do have Outlook set up
for storing email addresses to and from my Blackberry.

My big problem is that Windows Messenger is taking over
my computer.... it starts up every time I log on to
Outlook Express, even though I've cleared the appropriate
boxes in the Set Program Access and Defaults. I have to
sign out and close W.M. However, that doesn't help,
because even when I log off all programs (but not log off
my XP user name) -- including exiting Internet Explorer
and Outlook Express, the pesky Windows Messenger shows me
as being still online, so my friends are leaving Instant
messages and getting peeved that I don't answer (at weird
hours too).

Can anyone help me turn this blasted program off
permanently? Like others have found, I cannot uninstall
the program. HELP. (I should add that other family
members are getting the same problem, as 3 people use
this machine).
 
I've had the same problem and getting increasingly annoyed
with it - never being able to go online without the 'whole
world' knowing it! I had uninstalled Windows Messenger,
unticked the box that says to start up when starting
Windows, unticked the box in Outlook that said 'start up
Messenger' - and still it started, competing with MSN
Messenger and the two logging each other out.

Then I had a brainwave - in Outlook, Tools, Windows
Messenger Options, go to the tab that says accounts. It is
set to always log on to .NET whatever. I changed it to the
other one, which I don't have anyway, and it seems that
the only thing that opens now (fingers crossed!) is...
MSN! Which I can set to not start up at all if I feel like
it! :D
 
I have the exact sam problem !!!
I've tried everything I could think of.
I am running Windows XP PRO SP1 and no matter what I do,
everytime I boot up my PC, Windows Messenger 4.7 goes
across my Broadband connection and lets the ENTIRE WORLD
know I am here...

I am about ready to block it with my FIREWALL if
Microsoft can't come up with any other suggestions...


Pete...
 
Peter said:
I have the exact sam problem !!!
I've tried everything I could think of.
I am running Windows XP PRO SP1 and no matter what I do,
everytime I boot up my PC, Windows Messenger 4.7 goes
across my Broadband connection and lets the ENTIRE WORLD
know I am here...

I am about ready to block it with my FIREWALL if
Microsoft can't come up with any other suggestions...


Pete...
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most annoying behaviour, to be sure - so much for privacy!
to my experience (make your own judgment calls) -
* kill off entirely windows messenger (nb: do not uninstall).
* neutralize the other affected "services" (no loss, imo).
* superior (and safer) mail clients do exist, as you know.
* download, setup, and run .msn messenger. as desired.
* your privacy will again be your own - as it rightly should.
hth.
fyi: ibm, xp pro, ethernet, mozilla, on and on :)
 
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