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[Captain pi]

Hi,

I recently updated my standard Windows Messenger to MSN Messenger 7.0. However, my Windows Messenger sporadically and surreptitiously renders itself online. I have tried the following:

• Deleting Windows Messenger (access denied)
• Ticking the "Automatically start Messenger when computer starts."
• Unticking the above
• Enabling and disabling, in Program Access and Defaults, access to Windows Messenger.

Any ideas? Or, will I just have to put up with it? (I can log in to MSN Messenger and Appear Offline, but that opens up the temptation to chat.)

Thanks for any help,

pi.

 

[loquasagacious]

You can stop windows messenger from loading when the computer starts up:

Start/Run/msconfig startup tab untick the msmsgs box.

If for some reason though you do want to delete it (I personally prefer being bale to sign in with two msn accounts eg one with windows msger and one with msn msger) then it is possible however not straightforward. It requires a registry hack that places it on the list on uninstallable windows components. The easiet way probably with an app like shoot the messenger.

 

[RCMasterAA]

Click Start then Run then paste this into the box and click ok

RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\inf\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove

 

[Rafy]

MSN Messenger F.A.Q

http://www.boredofstudies.org/community/showthread.php?t=70421


It has the method as per the one in the above post, and also one for making it appear in the add/remove programs/



On another note: Addymac, if you want to use more than two accounts at once, just use a polygamy patch. They are included in most of the msn patches avaliable (for this see the Faq as well.

 

[jm1234567890]

the easiest way by far is to just rename the windows messenger folder to something else

 

[Rafy]

That would leave broken references to it in the registry and a few other places.....

 

[jm1234567890]

That would leave broken references to it in the registry and a few other places.....

I haven't had any problems....

if you use those methods can you still use things like whiteboard?