BEFORE you ask how to stop pop ups go to F a Q

[Tammy]

I went to the FAQS section, but did not find anything out
on getting rid of those pesky pop-ups. They are really
messing up my computer. It locks up sometimes when I'm in
the middle of working because I get 3 or 4 at the same
time and it seems like it's every hour on the hour. Can
you lead me to the right area that you spoke of? Thank
you so much.

>-----Original Message-----
>BEFORE you ask how to stop pop ups go to F asked Q you
>should find the answer there, I posted my question then
I
>went to F asked Q done the remove shown in about 20
>seconds and I have not had a pop up for at least 20 mins.
>
>Looks promising.
>
>Mel Day
>.
>

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Greetings Tammy,

Do these "pop-ups" 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

"Tammy" > wrote in message ...
> I went to the FAQS section, but did not find anything out
> on getting rid of those pesky pop-ups. They are really
> messing up my computer. It locks up sometimes when I'm in
> the middle of working because I get 3 or 4 at the same
> time and it seems like it's every hour on the hour. Can
> you lead me to the right area that you spoke of? Thank
> you so much.
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >BEFORE you ask how to stop pop ups go to F asked Q you
> >should find the answer there, I posted my question then
> I
> >went to F asked Q done the remove shown in about 20
> >seconds and I have not had a pop up for at least 20 mins.
> >
> >Looks promising.
> >
> >Mel Day
> >.
> >