Windows Messenger POPups

[christine turner]

>-----Original Message-----
>I do not use windows messenger. Yet i still get these
>ANNOYING pop-ups! Will someone tell me how to remove
>this program from my computer or shut these things
off???
>I know there are programs you can DL or pay for.. but I
>would rather kill the thing with out doing that. Please
>email me with a solution to this problem. thank you !!
>Carl
>.
>Ditto to your message carl. If anyone has responded to
your message with an actual solution to the problem,
could you please forward it to me? I would be Extremely
Grateful!!!! (God those things are sooooo annoying!!!!

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Hi Christine,

Do these "popups" that are appearing have "Messenger Service" in their titlebar? If so, what
you're seeing is the Messenger service built-in to Windows, *not* Windows Messenger (which
are two different things) which spammers are exploiting -- this is not Microsoft, nor can
Microsoft control them anymore then they can control spam to your e-mail inbox.

To get rid of these pop ups, you'll need to disable the "Messenger Service", click Start,
then Run, enter "services.msc"and click OK. Scroll down to "Messenger", select it,
right-click and then choose Properties. Under startup type, choose 'Disabled' and then
choose the 'Stop' button. After the service is stopped, click OK. Nothing in Windows or any
real third-party applications should be effected by this.
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Windows MVP, Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com

"christine turner" > wrote in message
...
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >I do not use windows messenger. Yet i still get these
> >ANNOYING pop-ups! Will someone tell me how to remove
> >this program from my computer or shut these things
> off???
> >I know there are programs you can DL or pay for.. but I
> >would rather kill the thing with out doing that. Please
> >email me with a solution to this problem. thank you !!
> >Carl
> >.
> >Ditto to your message carl. If anyone has responded to
> your message with an actual solution to the problem,
> could you please forward it to me? I would be Extremely
> Grateful!!!! (God those things are sooooo annoying!!!!