removal/deactivation

[ken]

can any one help me? i wish to remove/deactivate windows
messenger from my 2 daughter's accounts but leave it on
my (administrator) account. how do i do this?

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Greetings Ken,

You can't remove it, but you can disable it on their accounts. To do so, you simply need to
login to each of their Windows XP accounts, then download and run this .reg file:
http://messenger.jonathankay.com/downloads/disablewindowsmessenger_user.reg

After this, Windows Messenger will no longer start in whatever account you imported this
into.
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com

"ken" > wrote in message
...
> can any one help me? i wish to remove/deactivate windows
> messenger from my 2 daughter's accounts but leave it on
> my (administrator) account. how do i do this?

[Me]

To remove Windows Messenger (completely), close Internet Explorer and Outlook or Outlook Express and click:

Start, Run

enter the following command:

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

it will prompt you........and then click ok and its gone off your system completly....

NOTE: If you have SP1 installed, before running the above command line, you first need to go to:
Control Panel - Add or Remove Programs - Add/Remove Windows Components and untick "Windows Messenger" and restart to avoid getting an error (error unregistering the OCX 16422) when running the above command line. Now run the above command line. (If you sti
ll receive the OCX error, just ignore it. Messenger still uninstalls without a problem).

ADDITIONAL NOTE: If you use Outlook Express, you need to stop it from looking for Windows Messenger on startup. If you don't stop Outlook Express from looking for Windows Messenger on startup, you will get a lengthy delay before Outlook Express opens.

To remove Windows Messenger from Outlook Express and prevent the delay you need to edit the Registry in the following manner:

Open the Registry (Click Start - Run and type "regedit")

Registry Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Outlook Express.
Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)
Value Name: Hide Messenger
Value Data: (2 = remove messenger).

Create a new DWORD value, or modify the existing value, called 'Hide Messenger' and set the value to 2.

Exit your registry, you may need to restart or log out of Windows for the change to take effect.

[Trish]

Thank you for that!! I hate windows messenger and I was
looking for a way to 'get rid' of it.


>-----Original Message-----
>Greetings Ken,
>
>You can't remove it, but you can disable it on their
accounts. To do so, you simply need to
>login to each of their Windows XP accounts, then
download and run this .reg file:
>http://messenger.jonathankay.com/downloads/disablewindows
messenger_user.reg
>
>After this, Windows Messenger will no longer start in
whatever account you imported this
>into.
>____________________________________________
>Jonathan Kay
>Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
>Associate Expert
>http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
>Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
>
>"ken" > wrote in
message
...
>> can any one help me? i wish to remove/deactivate
windows
>> messenger from my 2 daughter's accounts but leave it on
>> my (administrator) account. how do i do this?
>
>
>.
>

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Hi,

You're welcome =).
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com

"Trish" > wrote in message
...
> Thank you for that!! I hate windows messenger and I was
> looking for a way to 'get rid' of it.
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Greetings Ken,
> >
> >You can't remove it, but you can disable it on their
> accounts. To do so, you simply need to
> >login to each of their Windows XP accounts, then
> download and run this .reg file:
> >http://messenger.jonathankay.com/downloads/disablewindows
> messenger_user.reg
> >
> >After this, Windows Messenger will no longer start in
> whatever account you imported this
> >into.
> >____________________________________________
> >Jonathan Kay
> >Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
> >Associate Expert
> >http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
> >Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
> >
> >"ken" > wrote in
> message
> ...
> >> can any one help me? i wish to remove/deactivate
> windows
> >> messenger from my 2 daughter's accounts but leave it on
> >> my (administrator) account. how do i do this?
> >
> >
> >.
> >