I want to remove Windows Messenger.

[Bill]

Barbara: I'm having the same problem and posted about 5
messages before yours. If one of us receives an answer
which should e-mail the other. So far no luck. It seems
many people are receiving pop ups. It is annoying! Bill


>-----Original Message-----
>Please, I want to remove Windows Messenger, and there is
>nothing in my Add Remove that shows it. I must have help
>Please help me.
>.
>

[Erik]

Hi Bill,

Are you referring to pop-ups that say "Messenger Service" in the title bar?
If so...

To get rid of these pop-up messages, click start, right click on My
Computer, select manage from the context menu, Expand Services and
Applications by clicking on the +, click on services, scroll down until you
find "Messenger" and double click it. under startup type, select either
disable or manual. Click the stop button. Click apply. Ok out and close
Computer Management.

You should no longer see the pop-ups and this does no harm to any MS or 3rd
party applications.

--
Carpe Diem

Erik

"Bill" > wrote in message
...
> Barbara: I'm having the same problem and posted about 5
> messages before yours. If one of us receives an answer
> which should e-mail the other. So far no luck. It seems
> many people are receiving pop ups. It is annoying! Bill
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Please, I want to remove Windows Messenger, and there is
> >nothing in my Add Remove that shows it. I must have help
> >Please help me.
> >.
> >

[Chuck]

On Sun, 18 May 2003 06:08:25 -0700, "Bill" >
wrote:

>Barbara: I'm having the same problem and posted about 5
>messages before yours. If one of us receives an answer
>which should e-mail the other. So far no luck. It seems
>many people are receiving pop ups. It is annoying! Bill
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Please, I want to remove Windows Messenger, and there is
>>nothing in my Add Remove that shows it. I must have help
>>Please help me.
>>.
>>

Bill,

Are the pop ups Messenger Service, or MSN / Windows Messenger, spam?
The two are totally different.

Do these popups have "Messenger Service" in the titlebar? If so, what
you're seeing is the Messenger Service in Windows which spammers are
exploiting.

To get rid of these pop ups, you 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. Hit the Stop button, then change Startup type to
Disabled, and hit OK. Stopping the Messenger Service doesn't affect
any applications in Windows - just the ability to send text messages
from computer to computer.

Another way to rid yourself of Messenger Service spam would be to put
yourself behind a NAT router.

If these popups are actually MSN / Windows Messenger messages, that's
another story. You need to block messages from anybody not in your
contacts.

To do this, hit Tools - Options and go to Privacy. Select "All other
users" (should be under "My Allow List"), and hit Block, then OK.
This will mean anybody not in your contacts will always see you as
Offline, and will never be able to add you to their contacts list.

MSN / Windows Messenger spam, of course, is not blocked by a NAT
router, or any firewall, because it is masquerading as normal MSN /
Windows Messenger traffic. If your firewall / router is configured
for normal MSN / Windows Messenger, the spam comes along with that.


Chuck Croll

Spam sucks - PLEASE get rid of the spam before emailing me!