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How do you go about removing MSN Messenger from Windows 2000? I know they have an option in XP to disable it but I haven't seen it in 2000.
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Why is it called tourist season, if we can't shoot at them? -
well, in the settings there are a option of NOT having it load at startup, that usualy does it
If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.
Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..." -
Yep. Upgrade to the latest version, then disable it from within itself.
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control panel, administrative tools, services - scroll down to "messenger" and kill it - then go into its properties and on "startup type" select "disable"...........
QED - or will this also be affecting other Windows toys ?
LawrenceComment
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that service has NOTHING to do with MSN messenger
If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.
Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..."Comment
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Goes to show what I know! - please ignore my suggestion.
LawrenceComment
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Well you should still disable it, since it's the biggest new spam medium since hotmail.
Gpar_The Internet - where men are men, women are men, and teenage girls are FBI agents!
I'm the least you could do
If only life were as easy as you
I'm the least you could do, oh yeah
If only life were as easy as you
I would still get screwedComment
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Remember someone here suggested renaming or deleting msmsgs.exe in Program Files/Messenger.
Renamed it and seems to kill it for me
Last edited by Admiral; 25 July 2003, 11:18.Comment
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Yeah but that's no solution. If you really want to remove it, it can be done, just not easily. Well, it WAS easy, until the later service packs reinstalled it and made it nigh-invulnerable (spoon!).
Gpar_The Internet - where men are men, women are men, and teenage girls are FBI agents!
I'm the least you could do
If only life were as easy as you
I'm the least you could do, oh yeah
If only life were as easy as you
I would still get screwedComment
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you really put your foot in that one!Originally posted by LvR
Goes to show what I know! - please ignore my suggestion.
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Guess as to the origin of said avatar.
LawrenceComment
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msconfig, find it in the programs started at boot? That's what I do on XP.Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.Comment
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Install it like suggested above but instead of disabling it, uninstall it. The string is somewhere in
HKEY_LocalMachine\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Uninstall
Paste the string into a command prompt.
You may even be able to find it before updating. I have not had to take it off a machine in a while.Comment
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I remember this from 98, but I don't think 2000 has it.Originally posted by Wombat
msconfig, find it in the programs started at boot? That's what I do on XP.Comment
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just unzip it and run msconfig.exeComment
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