disabling or deleting Windows Messenger
From: Kay (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/28/04
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Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 13:09:52 -0800
I've had the same problem and getting increasingly annoyed
with it - never being able to go online without the 'whole
world' knowing it! I had uninstalled Windows Messenger,
unticked the box that says to start up when starting
Windows, unticked the box in Outlook that said 'start up
Messenger' - and still it started, competing with MSN
Messenger and the two logging each other out.
Then I had a brainwave - in Outlook, Tools, Windows
Messenger Options, go to the tab that says accounts. It is
set to always log on to .NET whatever. I changed it to the
other one, which I don't have anyway, and it seems that
the only thing that opens now (fingers crossed!) is...
MSN! Which I can set to not start up at all if I feel like
it! :D
>-----Original Message-----
>I've read some of your recent msgs, and not find a
>problem exactly like mine. I am running Windows XP, and
>my preferred messenger programs are MSN Messenger and
>Yahoo Messenger. I use Outlook Express to connect to my
>Telus email account...althought I do have Outlook set up
>for storing email addresses to and from my Blackberry.
>
>My big problem is that Windows Messenger is taking over
>my computer.... it starts up every time I log on to
>Outlook Express, even though I've cleared the appropriate
>boxes in the Set Program Access and Defaults. I have to
>sign out and close W.M. However, that doesn't help,
>because even when I log off all programs (but not log off
>my XP user name) -- including exiting Internet Explorer
>and Outlook Express, the pesky Windows Messenger shows me
>as being still online, so my friends are leaving Instant
>messages and getting peeved that I don't answer (at weird
>hours too).
>
>Can anyone help me turn this blasted program off
>permanently? Like others have found, I cannot uninstall
>the program. HELP. (I should add that other family
>members are getting the same problem, as 3 people use
>this machine).
>.
>
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