How to stop messenger service pop-ups

[tony]

Bought a new book yesterday. Windows Xp for dummies. The
authors web site is;
www.woodyswatch.com
After looking through it for messenger service in
archives i found this. to stop, i believe these messages.


Click Start | Run, type services.msc and hit Enter.
Right-click on Messenger and pick Properties
Click Stop
In the Start-up type box pick Manual
Click OK all the way out



It may work as i've no more as yet, but only time will
tell.

tony.

[Pete Baker]

tony

as detailed previously in this NG the preferred method of stopping messenger
service pop-ups is to either install or properly enable a firewall. The
method you suggest prevents the symptom of an open port but does not address
the security issues.

Pete
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"tony" > wrote in message
...
> Bought a new book yesterday. Windows Xp for dummies. The
> authors web site is;
> www.woodyswatch.com
> After looking through it for messenger service in
> archives i found this. to stop, i believe these messages.
>
>
> Click Start | Run, type services.msc and hit Enter.
> Right-click on Messenger and pick Properties
> Click Stop
> In the Start-up type box pick Manual
> Click OK all the way out
>
>
>
> It may work as i've no more as yet, but only time will
> tell.
>
> tony.
>