Stopping Messenger Upgrade Popups?

[Pete]

I started getting a pop-up message for Messenger Upgrade
within the last few days. I tried to disable Messenger and
still kept getting the message. I upgraded and again tried
to disable the popup and with no success. Are this
upgrades ever tested? This is pretty annoying ... I don't
use Messenger ... how do I disable Messenger and
Microsoft's annoying popup message? In my opinion this
could qualify as SPAM mail.

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Greetings Pete,

You can disable the update popups by downloading and running this .reg file:
http://messenger.jonathankay.com/downloads/disableupdates.reg

However, to just disable Messenger, open up the main Messenger window, click Tools, Options,
then Preferences tab and uncheck 'Run this program when Windows starts'.
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Windows MVP, Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com

"Pete" > wrote in message ...
> I started getting a pop-up message for Messenger Upgrade
> within the last few days. I tried to disable Messenger and
> still kept getting the message. I upgraded and again tried
> to disable the popup and with no success. Are this
> upgrades ever tested? This is pretty annoying ... I don't
> use Messenger ... how do I disable Messenger and
> Microsoft's annoying popup message? In my opinion this
> could qualify as SPAM mail.