Smackre

what is the easiest way to get ride/disable this ghey thing. Cuz i go threw services and mconfig and disable it and stop it...but some reason on some computers it just coems bak. And when ur setting up a computer for your grandma and she keeps getting viagra adds on her computer it not funny !

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Lunatic

well for windows messenger to stop from running it on startup, you have to go to the options box inside the program itself, and uncheck the box that says "run, when windows starts".

ninety09

In a hurry after installing XP, i just do "start -> run" and put this in:

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

Kadath

Log in as administrator. Go into the adminstrative tools, then services. Disable the "Messenger" service. Done. I can't see why it would come back on after that.

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mikec

if you're running NAV, you have to turn off messenger virus protection in NAV's options, otherwise you'll never be able to get rid of that sucka!

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Menoman

i had same problem

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krd913

find the messener folder in the programs folder - make sure you have closed messenger then change the name of the folder to something like oldmessenger that should stop it from running

mikec

hahah, that's the ghetto method right there, but I guess it would work. heheheh. nice.

if you use the windows messenger options to tell it not to run at startup, or in the background, turn off instant messenger support in outlook/outlook express, and disable your antivirus program from scanning windows messenger, it will never come back on.

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Scorpion23

Are you talking about the windows messenger service, or the windows messenger program. They're two very diff. programs and require diff. ways to get rid of them.

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Dilbert1234567

change the start up type to disabled.

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Latch

Yeah, you guys are talking about two different programs.

It sounds like he's talkiung about the Messenger service (Viagra Ads). To disable that, you do:

Log in as administrator. Go into the adminstrative tools, then services. Disable the "Messenger" service. Done. I can't see why it would come back on after that.

Otherwise, check the other posts for getting rid of Windows Messenger Program (the instant messaging client).