wilhelmina
Joined: 17 Jun 2006
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 Posted: 06/17/06 - 05:00 Post subject: Kill The Messenger not to appear on startup |
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The annoyance that I am experiencing lately is related to Windows Messenger. This tool I don’t use at all, but somehow it seams that every time I start my computer it starts on its own will, too. I understood that it was started with Outlook Express, before, and stayed resident, even when I shout Outlook down. Now it is even worse. I have to point up that I don’t need Windows Messenger at all. I don’t even like it and use another massaging tool. So I need advice how to kill the messenger not to appear on startup.
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erwina
Joined: 17 Jun 2006
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| Posted: 06/23/06 - 05:34 Post subject: |
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I had a similar problem and I don’t have it now. I don’t remember how exactly I solved this one but I will tell you few advices I heard. There was a tip of editing startup item for Messenger in msconfig, but this was not good enough on some machines. Than there is a way to disable Messenger service in Control Panel>>Administrative Tools>>Services, but sometimes this was not good enough, either. And there was an option to uninstall the program via Add Remove Programs>>Windows Components, but the entry for messenger is hidden by default. You unhide this by editing %WINDIR%\INF\sysoc.inf file. The line you need to change looks like this:
msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,hide,7
What you need to do is to delete hide keyword, so it looks like this
msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,,7
I tried this myself and this works, you can see the entry and remove it in Add Remove Programs. Only the point is that there are some dependences and you will probably loose some functions such as remote assistance probably, remote desktop and more.
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