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New messenger for XP? Yes? No?
I am new to this group and I would think this would not be news here but you
can prevent messenger service ads with out turning on your firewall. All you have to do is disable the messenger service in Services. As stated this has nothing to with Windows or MSN messenger. "vince" wrote in message ... Thanks for the reply. The only way of preventing those messenger service ads that I was talking about is to run XP's built-in firewall, however, that hampers my ability to send files through the file sharing feature of messenger 4.7. It would be nice to have the next messenger for XP work along with XP's firewall so that i can still send files and have the firewall protection on.... so far I've had to turn off the firewall, then turn it on again, which is quite cumbersome. I hope that this suggestion makes it to the messenger 5 for XP, whenever it may me released. Thanks again. Greetings Vince, Windows Messenger 5 will come out before Longhorn *grin*. A new version of Windows Messenger will not "solve" the Messenger Service ads. The Messenger Service has absolutely nothing to do with MSN or Windows Messenger. ____________________________________________ Jonathan Kay Windows MVP, Messenger Associate Expert http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/ Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com |
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