Harassed by Win Messenger

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Uriel Wittenberg

I'm regularly getting a popup saying "It's time to update your Windows
Messenger information" or something like that (the message comes and
goes).

I REMOVED Win Messenger from my system. I still get it.

How can I make this thing shut up?
 
since windows messenger is a part of the operating system, you didn't remove
it. you may have disabled it, but it's still there. would it be so bad to
just do the update to get rid of the message? but before that, where is this
message coming from? is it a pop up or from automatic updates? i would run a
spyware & virus scan...
 
Snip[/QUOTE said:
Uriel,
Go to Start, Run, copy and paste the entire line below;
RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection
%windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove

Say O.K., and Messenger will be gone. (you will have to restart)
Best,
Treeman
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Kelly, I went to the webpage and there was no evident way to just say
No, stop, I don't want it.

I use Norton antivirus, up to date.

And have run Ad-Aware recently.

Treeman, thanks, but I'm not going to run some cryptic command I don't
understand. There surely is some way that USERS can tell the software to
stop pestering them.

MS is all about "freedom", right? Freedom to innovate etc. Surely I'm
free not to have the Win Messenger popup routinely come up and distract
me during my work.

Treeman said:
Snip[/QUOTE said:
Uriel,
Go to Start, Run, copy and paste the entire line below;
RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection
%windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove

Say O.K., and Messenger will be gone. (you will have to restart)
Best,
Treeman
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What's involved here is an OBSOLETE email address which Win messenger
wants me to verify. Has it never occurred to them that addresses can
change?

Kelly, I went to the webpage and there was no evident way to just say
No, stop, I don't want it.

I use Norton antivirus, up to date.

And have run Ad-Aware recently.

Treeman, thanks, but I'm not going to run some cryptic command I don't
understand. There surely is some way that USERS can tell the software to
stop pestering them.

MS is all about "freedom", right? Freedom to innovate etc. Surely I'm
free not to have the Win Messenger popup routinely come up and distract
me during my work.

Treeman said:
Snip[/QUOTE said:
Uriel,
Go to Start, Run, copy and paste the entire line below;
RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection
%windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove

Say O.K., and Messenger will be gone. (you will have to restart)
Best,
Treeman
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Uriel said:
What's involved here is an OBSOLETE email address which Win
messenger wants me to verify. Has it never occurred to them that
addresses can change?
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Don't know if this will solve your problem but it may be worth trying. Go
to Start -> Run and enter control userpasswords2 in the Open box. Click OK.
When the User account box pops up click on the Advanced tab. Click on the
"Manage Passwords" button. In the box that pops up see if that obsolete
email address is listed next to a passport account. If it is, highlight it
and click Remove. Click Close. Click OK.

Good luck

Nepatsfan
 
If you do mean Win messenger and not msn messenger, try this, control pannel, administrative tools, services, then scroll down to messenger, right click it, properties, you should see a box saying startup type. Click disabled. Let me know if this helps.
 
Nepatsfan,

I'm using WinXP home and the prompts are a bit different from what you
describe but by clicking on "manage my network passwords" I was able to
delete a "passport" item. That may have done it.

PCDaddy,

*After* doing the above I got your post. "Messenger" was already
disabled, maybe because of the above.

Thank you both!

Uriel
 
If it had to do with your passport, it wasn't the "messenger" anyway, messenger is not actually a part of windows but some call it win messenger. It causes many pop ups and such that people couldn't get rid of. My info wouldn't have helped then. Glad you got it figured out though. Nepatsfan was correct then.
 
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