Remove messenger

[Guest]

well someone help me to remove windows messenger.
Thank you

 

[Jose Francisco]

Greetings,

Please follow these steps to delete MSN Messenger of your system:


1st Way:



1) Start > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs

2) As soon as the "Add/Remove Programs" window appears, click on Add/Remove
Windows Components (at the side).

3) Once the "Windows Components Wizard" window appears, scroll down to the
end and you'll "Windows Messenger" ticked. You just have to untick it and
just press next. You're Done!



It would take a few seconds in uninstalling Windows Messenger, so no need to
worry if your computer hangs.



2nd Way:



If you're in a hurry and don't like following the steps above, just
following these short steps:



1) Start > Run

2) Type in "RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection
%windir%\inf\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove" (Without the quotes)





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.. Open C:\WINDOWS\INF\sysoc.inf with your favourite text editor. (Hint: The
INF directory might be hidden, and Windows might be WINNT depending on your
PC.)

2. Identify the line that looks like:

msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,hide,7


3. Delete the "hide" keyword. That line should look like:

msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,,7


4. Save the file and exit your text editor

5. Click on Start -> Control Panel -> Add or Remove Programs -> Add/Remove
Windows Components

6. Scroll down to the last components

7. You should have 2 checkboxes for Windows Messenger now. Uncheck both of
them.

8. Click on Next. The Windows Messenger application is fully deinstalled.





Thanks and best of luck!

 

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Greetings,

Although you can forcibly remove Windows Messenger, if you do, features like Remote
Assistance, Whiteboard and Application Sharing within MSN Messenger 6.x and Windows will no
longer work. As well, some applications that specifically call on Messenger (like for
example Outlook Express) will appear to freeze or refuse to load as they try to start
Messenger (you can however, turn off this functionality to fix this problem).

Instead, you can simply disable Windows Messenger. To do so, open it up (click Start, then
Run, type "msmsgs" and click OK), click Tools, Options, Preferences tab and uncheck 'Run this
Program when Windows starts' or 'Run Windows Messenger when Windows starts' (depending on
version) as well as 'Allow this program to run in the background' or 'Allow Windows Messenger
to run in the background' (depending on version). This won't remove Windows Messenger, so
features like Remote Assistance, Whiteboard and Application Sharing will continue to work,
but it will let it stay out of your way.

Also, do you have Norton Antivirus installed? Recent versions of Norton Antivirus added a
new "instant messaging scanning" feature, which can conflict with Messenger and cause it to
also keep starting. To stop it, open Norton Antivirus (Right-click on the Norton Antivirus
icon in the System Tray/Notification Area (by the clock), choose 'Open Norton Antivirus'),
click Options, then Instant Messenger then uncheck MSN Instant Messenger and click OK.

If you'd prefer to just remove Windows Messenger however, you can do so by following the
instructions here:
http://messenger.jonathankay.com/problem.aspx?ID=7
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
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