Re: Two messenger 8.1 are loading?

Greetings Duke,

Are you sure they're both Windows Live Messenger 8.1? Open them both up, press the Alt key
to bring up the menubar, choose the Help menu and then choose About.

I'm betting one is Windows Messenger and one is Windows Live Messenger, which are separate
products.

You can remove it, but Remote Assistance, Whiteboard and
Application Sharing will no longer work within Windows Live Messenger. If that's okay with
you, simply uninstall by clicking 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. For more detailed instructions and screenshots on this,
go to:
http://messenger.jonathankay.com/problem.aspx?ID=7

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"Duke46" <Duke46@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:30561ED6-1518-49AF-A2A7-5B5F4051A330@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I updated to windows live messenger 8.1 because I had to? Now every time my
computer starts up two of them show on the task bar and both are the same?
Just one is showing in msconfig. When you exit from one of the the other
stay's.
What do I need to do to stop one of them? Or should I just uninstall and try
again?
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Duke


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