Messenger Running Without Being Told To....Arrggh

[Sid Joyner]

I have a relatively new clean install of Windows XP running on my computer.
Even though I have a .NET account for other reasons (MSN.com home page,
Money 2004, etc.), I have specifically told Windows Messenger (through
Prefernces) NOT to run when Windows starts up or run in the background.
However, I keep getting people on my buddy list writing to me because they
see me as "online" when I boot up and log into Windows. Messenger is not
running in the system tray area, I don't see anything in the task list that
I recognize as running Messenger. What is it? I don't want to be online all
the time and being distracted by friends wanting to chat.

I do have Outlook 2003 and use it. But I get chat messages from friends even
before I start up Outlook. Plus, I thought I had turned off everything in
Outlook preferences that would run Messenger. Just another example of
Microsoft (or Yahoo or AOL) trying to take over your computer.

Please help me locate why Messenger is logging me in whenever I start
Windows, even when I'm specifically telling it not to.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Sid

 

[Guest]

oh well.. i'd get rid of Windows messenger altogether... use MSN 6.2 instead... its much better...

 

[dan2003]

*oh well.. i'd get rid of Windows messenger altogether... use MSN 6.
instead... its much better... *

Actually, I am using MSN Messenger 6.2 and I can't seem to convince th
damn thing that I am not my wife so when I open my desktop and launc
(usually on purpose, but not always) her name comes up with he
"unopened" mail showing in the inital launch screen for XP.

I cannot seem to change this - any help is apprectiated


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dan200