Re: MSN Explorer Zombie Application

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Hello,

This is a complete guess, click on Start/Run and type in CONTROL USERPASSWORDS2 and press enter.
Flip to the advanced tab and click on 'manage passwords'. You might find the said account there in
the list. Select it and hit delete.

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<ollie_w_holmes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm working on a portable running XP home and it came with MSN Explorer
v 6 pre-installed. Dated, but a client had an msn account and is now
deceased. Even after uninstalling this sucker using add/remove windows
components, the registry seems to remember the original owner's msn
account. Going through the registry and carefully removing or zeroing
out references to msn and msnexplorer does not reset the dead account
holders dominion over this application. That's right, after an
uninstall and reinstall, there is no way to change the master account
holders control and insert a new one. And no, we do not know the dead
person's msn password, since the account was long ago deactivated.
What's the story-

1. Hope that later versions of MSN Explorer start the process from
scratch, with no zombie holdovers?
2. Ditch this dumb program and sign up with another ISP?



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