Re: SP2 thoughts

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From: Travis King (Anonymous_at_none.com)
Date: 08/26/04 

Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 01:46:03 GMT

It already is. I also uchecked it, closed OE. Then, I opened it up. Then
I unchecked it again and restarted. No difference. Perhaps this is a bug
with SP2 that might be fixed in the future?
"Mark Rossi" <JollyOne25@stny.rr.com> wrote in message
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> "Travis King" <Anonymous@none.com> wrote in message
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>> So far, it doesn't seem to annoying. I noticed that the startup is a
>> little different. It no longer shows which edition of Windows you have
>> when it's starting up. It just says Windows XP with a BLUE bar going
>> across the screen. It used to be green. I know that professional has
>> the blue bar, and home has the green bar. (I have home.) The startup
>> seemed just about 3% faster. My easy CD creator 5 works fine so far.
>> (I'm using version 5.3.2.34, so don't worry if you don't have 5.3.5. So
>> far that seems okay. One problem though that I wonder if you can help
>> with. I had OE set not to show MSN messenger on OE's startup. Now it's
>> back. I've checked various settings and it keeps coming back. I don't
>> want anything to do with MSN messenger. One change though, whenever you
>> close OE, MSN messenger exits too. How can I get rid of it? Thanks.
>>
>
> Travis,
>
> Try to go to Tools > Options and then the General tab. Uncheck the box
> that says Automatically log on to Windows Messenger. Close everything out
> and reboot. That should do it.
>
> Mark
>

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