Remove Messenger

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Alan Ledrowski

How do I remove messenger from the task bar, when I try to
exit from it it says it is in use by another program. I
don't use explorer, outlook, outlook express. Can anyone
help?
 
Try removing the application from the startup , try removing the other
application for msconfig which could use Messenger
good luck
bani
 
MSN Messenger can be tough to fully remove. Here's a start:

To disable MSN Messenger, there are a couple of things you can do:
In the system tray, double click the (presumed) green man icon. The MSN
Messenger window appears. Go to Tools, options, Preferences. Uncheck the
"Run this program when Windows start" box. Most of the time, this isn't
enough though.

In Outlook (XP), you can go to Tools - options - other. Uncheck msn
messenger.

With Outlook Express, go to Tools, options, General. There's an option in
there too.

MSN Messenger is tied in closely with OE. There is a reg hack to avoid
having MSN starting when OE loads.
Start - Run - Regedit. Drill down to here:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Outlook Express]
In the right pane, right click and choose New - DWORD Value.
Name it Hide Messenger.
Give it a value of 2. You might have to reboot your machine
for the changes to take effect.

You could also use the group policy editor (Start - Run - gpedit.msc), and
find the setting in there (under Administrative templates - Windows
components - Windows Messenger), and disable it from there.

Good Luck,
Patrick Pitre
 
A sugestion on another post was to run this command:

RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection
%windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove

After shutting messenger down. I was unable to exit the
program because it was in use by Norton AV's Messenger
utility. After that was disabled I was able to exit
messenger and remove from my system.

Thanks for all the help
 
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