disable messenger! ATTN: Jonathan Kay

i have an incredibly irritating issue with MSN Messenger
v.7.5.0324 loading when I run Outlook Express or IE, but
only sometimes. I have gotten a registry file that adds a
"Hide Messenger" key to HKCU. And that will work -- for a
time. But then seemingly randomly, it will start loading
again. I have a very infrequent use for it & would rather
it not load until i want it too. So I run your registry
thing, log off & back on, & it works again -- for a time.
What's even weirder is that the key is still there
unchanged under that HCKU key.

i tried changing your file to add it to HKLM also, but
apparently that has no effect.

this is very frustrating. Any other ideas or a newer hack
that i'm missing? I got the one i'm using after Googling
for an answer and hitting upon your website. I run as a
restricted user, fwiw, so I run as admin to do the HKLM
version.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express]
"Hide Messenger"=dword:00000002


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