Removing Messenger

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Andy Wilson

Hi all,
I don't use messenger and it is really annoying that it
is just always there to remeind me.
Despite un selecting it in the windows programs it will
not disappear.
Do you know how to remove it??

Cheers

AW
 
Greetings AW,

You can, but if you do, you will be preventing Remote Assistance, Whiteboard, and Application
Sharing from working. However, if you don't use this functionality that would be disabled by
removing Messenger, you can simply remove it by closing down Messenger if it's running (right
click the messenger icon in the notification area/system tray and click close). Then click
the Start button, then click Run and type in (copy-paste if you like):
RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove
Then click OK.
Messenger will then be uninstalled. For more detailed instructions and screenshots, go to,
http://messenger.jonathankay.com/problem.aspx?ID=7

You can reinstall it whenever you like however.
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2004 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
 
Great, that appeared to do the trick, thanks.

Although I couldn't shut it down initial as apparently
other programs were using it???

Also, when I did the uninstal, it said that there was an
error unregistering the OCX 16422, I presume that is not
a problem?

Cheers

Andy
-----Original Message-----
Greetings AW,

You can, but if you do, you will be preventing Remote
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Assistance, Whiteboard, and Application
Sharing from working. However, if you don't use this
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functionality that would be disabled by
removing Messenger, you can simply remove it by closing
Click to expand...
down Messenger if it's running (right
click the messenger icon in the notification area/system
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tray and click close). Then click
the Start button, then click Run and type in (copy-paste if you like):
RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir% \INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove
Then click OK.
Messenger will then be uninstalled. For more detailed
Click to expand...
instructions and screenshots, go to,
 
Hi Andy,

A lot of applications utilize Messenger (including some Antivirus utilities and so on). In
most cases you can ignore the OCX error (if Messenger is gone, it's not an issue).
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2004 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
 
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