Re: strange messenger errors

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From: Juergen Heinzl (sigsegv_at_web.de)
Date: 06/18/04 

Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 02:40:54 +0200

"Kathie" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:1e03801c454c5$9b8dd2b0$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> I am getting a messenger error about every two minutes -
> I've removed it from my computer, rebooted, kicked the
> blessed thing even! I emailed windows, but does anyone
> have any suggestions? AND, I can see the icon in the
> bottom right corner, but when I cursor down to open it,
> it doesn't work??? SOS!!!
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How did you remove it?

AFAICT there're two methods that *should* work:

i) Rundll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.remove

ii) Edit %SystemRoot%\INF\sysoc.inf as changing ",HIDE," to ",," in the
components section lets you remove those components just like any other
Windows components.

Personally I just neither allow incoming nor outgoing connections from or to
msmsgs.exe, disabled the icon on the task bar and that was that. Much easier
should I ever want or need it for any reason.

Cheers,
Juergen

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