RE: disabling WINDOWS messenger

Your problem IS NOT MSN Mesenger.. is teh WIndows Messenger Service....
to Disable those annoying pop-ups.....
Go into run.... type services.msc... look for te Messenger Service....
double click... press Stop.... the select the startup type... and
disable..... that should get rid of the Internet pop-ups

"Robert" wrote:

> Hi, Suddenly, everytine I get on the internet, a pop-up
> for Windows messenger appears asking for a user name.
> This isn't the bogus spam Messenger service - it is indeed
> windows messenger - apparently a long time ago I set up
> the service (it has an old email address of mine) but I
> don't really want to use it. How can I stop this program
> from appearing? I don't care if the program remains
> available to me - I just want to stop the annoying pop-up
> everytime I log on.
> Thanks.
>
.

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