pop up windows

[Gregory Berger]

Ever since installing xp home I get a barrage of pop up
windows using the windows messanger box. This messanger
give anyone an open access to my computer while I'm on
line. It gets so bad I can't work online due to the
frequent interuptions. How can I turn it off or otherwise
remedy the situation.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Greg

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Greetings Greg,

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

"Gregory Berger" > wrote in message
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> Ever since installing xp home I get a barrage of pop up
> windows using the windows messanger box. This messanger
> give anyone an open access to my computer while I'm on
> line. It gets so bad I can't work online due to the
> frequent interuptions. How can I turn it off or otherwise
> remedy the situation.
> Thanks in advance for any help.
> Greg