James
December 5th 03, 04:17 PM
Jonathan,
I appreciate your informative response to the
previous question and have two follow-up questions of my
own:
1) Have I damaged my computer by uninstalling rather than
simply disabling Messenger? I am most worried here about
possibly no longer being able to receive automatic XP
updates from Microsoft.
2) How do I go about reinstalling Messenger if you think
that is what I should do?
Much thanks,
James
>-----Original Message-----
>Greetings JLB,
>
>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
>
>"JLB" > wrote in message
...
>> I have never used Messenger but recently have started
to
>> receive popup ads that appear every 5 minutes or so and
>> that state for $29.95 I can fix it so that no popup ads
>> will ever appear. How can I delete the messenger
program
>> from my hard disk which I assume would then eliminate
>> these popup ads.
>>
>
>
>.
>
I appreciate your informative response to the
previous question and have two follow-up questions of my
own:
1) Have I damaged my computer by uninstalling rather than
simply disabling Messenger? I am most worried here about
possibly no longer being able to receive automatic XP
updates from Microsoft.
2) How do I go about reinstalling Messenger if you think
that is what I should do?
Much thanks,
James
>-----Original Message-----
>Greetings JLB,
>
>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
>
>"JLB" > wrote in message
...
>> I have never used Messenger but recently have started
to
>> receive popup ads that appear every 5 minutes or so and
>> that state for $29.95 I can fix it so that no popup ads
>> will ever appear. How can I delete the messenger
program
>> from my hard disk which I assume would then eliminate
>> these popup ads.
>>
>
>
>.
>