Bob Bebber
December 5th 03, 01:47 PM
Hal,
If you find out how to remove this hellish program from
your computer, please forward to me also. As you stated
below, there appears to be no way to remove the damn
program. I even went into a dos shell to try and still
couldn't get it. Please, please share your replies.
Bob Bebber
>-----Original Message-----
>I am running Windows XP Home, Internet Explorer 6.0, and
>trying to uninstall Windows Messenger 4.7. I have
>disabled Messenger everywhere I have found it. I tried
to
>uninstall (remove Windows component) but that just seems
>to be some sort of disable as well. I can remove the
icon
>from Internet Explorer toolbar but the program is still
>available via the tools dropdown menu. Bottom line... I
>can not fully REMOVE the program.
>
>When I start the browser, it starts a
>process "msmsgs.exe" and this process does not terminate
>with Explorer. I have to manually terminate the process
>(or reboot) to run my web cleanup utility from Norton's
>Utilities. It keeps thinking that a browser is running
>because of the processes that Explorer leaves running
>after I exit the browser. There is no problem runing the
>web cleanup if I don't start the browser before running
>the cleanup (rather useless that way though).
>
>Is there no way to simply REMOVE the Messenger program
>completely and remove its registry entries? ie. a clean
>UNinstall????
>
>I have tried to uninstall Internet Explorer entirely (to
>do a clean install) and alas, I can not remove IT
either.
>That was even suggested in the knowledge base. Why put
it
>there if it can not be done? I can only remove the last
>update... that is under programs, instead of Windows
>components and appears to actually uninstall.
>
>Bottom line.... How do I completely uninstall Messenger
>or at the very least stop Explorer from starting up
>the "msmsgs.exe" process?
>
>Thank you, in advance, for your help.
>
>Hal
>
>.
>
If you find out how to remove this hellish program from
your computer, please forward to me also. As you stated
below, there appears to be no way to remove the damn
program. I even went into a dos shell to try and still
couldn't get it. Please, please share your replies.
Bob Bebber
>-----Original Message-----
>I am running Windows XP Home, Internet Explorer 6.0, and
>trying to uninstall Windows Messenger 4.7. I have
>disabled Messenger everywhere I have found it. I tried
to
>uninstall (remove Windows component) but that just seems
>to be some sort of disable as well. I can remove the
icon
>from Internet Explorer toolbar but the program is still
>available via the tools dropdown menu. Bottom line... I
>can not fully REMOVE the program.
>
>When I start the browser, it starts a
>process "msmsgs.exe" and this process does not terminate
>with Explorer. I have to manually terminate the process
>(or reboot) to run my web cleanup utility from Norton's
>Utilities. It keeps thinking that a browser is running
>because of the processes that Explorer leaves running
>after I exit the browser. There is no problem runing the
>web cleanup if I don't start the browser before running
>the cleanup (rather useless that way though).
>
>Is there no way to simply REMOVE the Messenger program
>completely and remove its registry entries? ie. a clean
>UNinstall????
>
>I have tried to uninstall Internet Explorer entirely (to
>do a clean install) and alas, I can not remove IT
either.
>That was even suggested in the knowledge base. Why put
it
>there if it can not be done? I can only remove the last
>update... that is under programs, instead of Windows
>components and appears to actually uninstall.
>
>Bottom line.... How do I completely uninstall Messenger
>or at the very least stop Explorer from starting up
>the "msmsgs.exe" process?
>
>Thank you, in advance, for your help.
>
>Hal
>
>.
>