How to rid of Win Messenger

[Nick]

Anyone knows how to remove windows mesenger (not MSN
Messenger) after a fresh installation of windows xp pro?
I tried the add/remove programs, and selected
the "add/remove windows components" and unchecked
the "windows messenger" and finished the process. This
did not remove the windows messenger. I rebooted my
system and I still found windows messenger in there.

Any help?

 

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Greetings Nick,

You can completely remove Windows Messenger (4.7) but if you do, you will be preventing
Remote Assistance, Whiteboard, and Application Sharing from working.

However, if you don't use this functionality that would be disabled by removing Messenger,
you can simply remove it by closing down Messenger if it's running (right click the messenger
icon in the notification area/system tray and click close). Then click the start button,
then click Run and type in (copy-paste if you like):
RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove

Then click OK.
Messenger will then be uninstalled. For more detailed instructions and screenshots, go to,
http://messenger.jonathankay.com/problem.aspx?ID=7
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