Re: Remove Messenger

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From: Harry Goodell (chiefgse_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/02/04


Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 10:48:02 GMT

Great.....thanks finally got rid of that PESKY POS program.

-- 
Harry P. Goodell
A.K.A. ChiefGSE
"...D." <d@no_usenet_email..org> wrote in message
news:i0c5e01kpei1e98tmrtjhjn42e45ipfe1r@4ax.com...
> "Harry Goodell" <chiefgse@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >I can NEVER stop it from loading by the way you guys
> >explain. It always seem to run in the background no
> >matter what I do.
>
> Ok.  You will lose a couple of applications that Windows Messenger
supports.
> But I don't think it makes much of a difference.  I don't think I ever
used
> those applications, or at least I don't think I will ever need to use
them.  I
> have no idea what "whiteboard" is...
>
> The following is a quote I picked up here in Usenet - sorry I didn't quote
the
> name of the poster.  Copy/paste the line near the bottom of the quote into
> start\run:
>
> ------------------------  begin quote:
> You can completely remove Windows Messenger (4.7) but if you do, you will
be
> preventing Remote Assistance, Whiteboard, Application Sharing and any
other
> applications that utilize Messenger from working (or loading without
> problems).
> <snip>
> However, if you really want to remove it completely, for Windows Messenger
> 4.7, close 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.
>
> ------------------  end quote
>
>
>
> ...D.


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