Re: Jonathan Please Help :)

From: Jonathan Kay [MVP] (msnewsreplies_at_jonathankay.com)
Date: 10/05/04 

Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 16:00:36 -0400

Greetings Keely,

If you have Norton Antivirus, from version 2003 and up, this function will be there and will
cause this problem, so you'll need to keep looking.

As well, Outlook (depending on the version you're using) will also start Messenger. For
Outlook 2003, click the Tools menu in Outlook, then choose Options, choose the Other tab,
uncheck "Enable the Person Names Smart Tag" and click OK.

For Outlook 2002/XP, open Outlook, click the Tools menu, then Options, then the Other tab,
and uncheck 'Enable Instant Messaging in Microsoft Outlook'.
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"Keely" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:015201c4ab08$7b19e840$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>I have just had Windows XP installed and can't get rid of
> the messenger 4.7 icon in the tray or get it to stop
> loading at start up. I have tried the stop messenger link
> that
> Jonathan Kay suggested with no luck. I have tried going
> to Preferences tab and uncheck 'Run this
> Program when Windows starts' or 'Run Windows Messenger
> when Windows starts' but it wasn't an option there, I did
> uncheck the box that said Allow Windows Messenger
> to run in the background. I went to Norton Virus and was
> not able to find an "options" field to see if that was the
> problem. If it matters I am using Microsoft Outlook.
>
> Any more thoughts?? I have XP at home and I will be
> darned if I can remember how I got rid of it there.
>
> Thank you in advance for any help you can offer.
>
>

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