How do I turn off the Windows Messenger for good.

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David Lawson

Windows Messenger had not been a problem I would simply "exit" after a
reboot and never saw it until the next reboot. Now, ever since I had a
wireless network set up Messenger pops up all the time. I don't like that.
Please help.

Thank You
David
 
You can uninstall Windows Messenger in the Control Panel/Add-Remove
Programs/Add-Remove Windows Components.
 
David said:
Windows Messenger had not been a problem I would simply "exit" after a
reboot and never saw it until the next reboot. Now, ever since I had a
wireless network set up Messenger pops up all the time. I don't like that.
Please help.
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Colin has told you how to uninstall Messenger. If you're getting a lot
of pop ups from out on the net however that's also a sign that you've
got poor security. You need to run a firewall with a network that other
people have access to.

Good luck....

Bill
 
If you want to to dsable, but not uninstall it, you can toggle it on ot off
with Run/msmsgs


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johnf
You can uninstall Windows Messenger in the Control Panel/Add-Remove
Programs/Add-Remove Windows Components.

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Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine]
David Lawson said:
Windows Messenger had not been a problem I would simply "exit" after a
reboot and never saw it until the next reboot. Now, ever since I had a
wireless network set up Messenger pops up all the time. I don't like
that. Please help.

Thank You
David
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Colin's solution will only remove the Windows Messenger icon from the
desktop.

To completely remove Windows Messenger,
1) Exit from Windows Messenger
2) Paste the command below into the "Start|Run..." box
RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove
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(Don't include the caret when you copy the command above)

Donald L McDaniel
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