How To Stop Signing In Unattended?

One way you can prevent this from happening is by going
into your options and turn off the option that lets
messenger run in the background. I have done this and
have had no problem with messenger running and signing in
when I dont want it to. The only downside to this is that
you will have to minimize the messenger window instead of
closing it out to keep it running, because if you click
close thats what it does after you have done this. Also
messenger will still pop up when you open outlook express
but as soon as you close outlook it dissapears. Hope this
helps.
Gary
-----Original Message-----
I am running XP Professional with Messenger 4.7. I have
Messenger set to NOT start and sign-in at Startup. This
is intentional as I don't want to talk at certain
times.
This is my way of preventing that. However, when I do
start Messenger and sign-in and use if for a while, I
then sign out at the end of my session. It will not let
me close the program as it says it is "in Use" by
Outlook
or IE, etc. Anyway, while I am not paying attention or
have walked away from my computer for a while, it signs
in again by itself! Is there any way to prevent this?

Mitch
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