Don't WANT Windows Messenger

[Uriel]

I don't want to chat. I don't want instant notifications. I don't want to
know when my friends come online.

I want to be able to THINK a bit. Without interruption.

I've done everything to stop Windows Messenger's popup demands for info but
it won't stop.

Under Messenger's Tools / Options / Preferences I have EVERYTHING unchecked.
But it still interrupts me, like just now when I resumed from WinXP's Stand
By.

Is there some way to get peace?

 

[Guest]

Start>Run>type MSCONFIG and click OK
Click the Startup tab>uncheck msmsgs>Apply>Close>reboot

 

[Ron Martell]

I don't want to chat. I don't want instant notifications. I don't want to
know when my friends come online.

I want to be able to THINK a bit. Without interruption.

I've done everything to stop Windows Messenger's popup demands for info but
it won't stop.

Under Messenger's Tools / Options / Preferences I have EVERYTHING unchecked.
But it still interrupts me, like just now when I resumed from WinXP's Stand
By.

Is there some way to get peace?

Open Outlook Express.
Select Tools - Options.
In the General (top) section make sure the checkbox for "Automatically
log on to Windows Messenger" is clear.
Click on Apply and OK as needed to exit.

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada

 

[Uriel]

Thanks, but there is no "msmsgs" there.

There are some other things -- e.g. AOLHostManager, AOLSP Scheduler. I don't
use AOL. Any reason for that to be there?

What happens when you remove these things?

There's also one with a blank under the headings Item and Command.

Start>Run>type MSCONFIG and click OK
Click the Startup tab>uncheck msmsgs>Apply>Close>reboot

 

[Uriel]

Thanks but that's already unchecked.

I don't want to chat. I don't want instant notifications. I don't want to
know when my friends come online.

I want to be able to THINK a bit. Without interruption.

I've done everything to stop Windows Messenger's popup demands for info but
it won't stop.

Under Messenger's Tools / Options / Preferences I have EVERYTHING
unchecked.
But it still interrupts me, like just now when I resumed from WinXP's Stand
By.

Is there some way to get peace?

Open Outlook Express.
Select Tools - Options.
In the General (top) section make sure the checkbox for "Automatically
log on to Windows Messenger" is clear.
Click on Apply and OK as needed to exit.

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada

 

[deebs]

Thanks but that's already unchecked.




Open Outlook Express.
Select Tools - Options.
In the General (top) section make sure the checkbox for "Automatically
log on to Windows Messenger" is clear.
Click on Apply and OK as needed to exit.

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada

Try lavasoft Ad-aware addin to stop Windows Messenger - maybe it will do
the trick?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

To disable "Windows Messenger":

Open "Windows Messenger" and from the Toolbar select
Tools > Options > Preferences and uncheck:

"Run this program when Windows starts" and
"Allow this program to run in the background", then
click OK.

Next, open Outlook Express and from the Toolbar select
Tools > Options and under the General tab uncheck
"Automatically log on to Windows Messenger" and click
APPLY.

Alternative:

Prevent Windows Messenger from automatically running
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/xp_messenger_autorun.htm

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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:

| I don't want to chat. I don't want instant notifications. I don't want to
| know when my friends come online.
|
| I want to be able to THINK a bit. Without interruption.
|
| I've done everything to stop Windows Messenger's popup demands for info but
| it won't stop.
|
| Under Messenger's Tools / Options / Preferences I have EVERYTHING unchecked.
| But it still interrupts me, like just now when I resumed from WinXP's Stand
| By.
|
| Is there some way to get peace?

 

[Uriel]

I had already unchecked everything in Messenger's Tools > Options >
Preferences.

I had also unchecked "Automatically log on to Windows Messenger" in Outlook
Express.

I cannot believe I have to download and run a 3'rd party VBS file to
deactivate Win Messenger. Don't users have the freedom to run the apps they
want on their machines?

To disable "Windows Messenger":

Open "Windows Messenger" and from the Toolbar select
Tools > Options > Preferences and uncheck:

"Run this program when Windows starts" and
"Allow this program to run in the background", then
click OK.

Next, open Outlook Express and from the Toolbar select
Tools > Options and under the General tab uncheck
"Automatically log on to Windows Messenger" and click
APPLY.

Alternative:

Prevent Windows Messenger from automatically running
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/xp_messenger_autorun.htm

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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:

| I don't want to chat. I don't want instant notifications. I don't want to
| know when my friends come online.
|
| I want to be able to THINK a bit. Without interruption.
|
| I've done everything to stop Windows Messenger's popup demands for info
but
| it won't stop.
|
| Under Messenger's Tools / Options / Preferences I have EVERYTHING
unchecked.
| But it still interrupts me, like just now when I resumed from WinXP's
Stand
| By.
|
| Is there some way to get peace?

 

[deebs]

Forgive me Uriel,

My post was along the lines of easiest options.

I meet many people with the ability to run a 3rd party app easily,
safely and confidently but also have an uncanny knack to make things go
skew-wiff if introduced to other solutions.

 

[DL]

If you have these AOL files in your startup, then it would seem that AOL has
been installed, at some stage.
Perhaps if this was a new PC it was supplied with an AOL service that merely
required activating. or perhaps there was a shortcut that was inadvertantely
activated.

 

[Chuck Burmester]

to get rid of messenger, open control panel, add remove programs, add remove
windows components, uncheck windows messenger, next, finish. No more
windows messenger.

 

[Chuck Burmester]

PS if you decide you want it back, put the check mark back.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

I don't want to chat. I don't want instant notifications. I don't want to
know when my friends come online.

I want to be able to THINK a bit. Without interruption.

I've done everything to stop Windows Messenger's popup demands for info but
it won't stop.

Under Messenger's Tools / Options / Preferences I have EVERYTHING unchecked.
But it still interrupts me, like just now when I resumed from WinXP's Stand
By.

Is there some way to get peace?

Modify C:\Windows\Inf\Sysoc.inf to remove the word "Hide" from
the pertinent Windows Components entries. Be sure to leave the two
surrounding commas in place. (Iow, change the line
"AccessUtil=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,accessor.inf,hide,7" to read
"AccessUtil=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,accessor.inf,,7"), and then go to Control
Panel > Add/Remove Programs > Add/Remove Windows Components. Windows
Messenger will now appear among the list of Windows components that can
be removed.


--

Bruce Chambers

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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having
both at once. - RAH

 

[Uriel]

Yes, it's a new PC (a Gateway), but I declined prompts offering AOL. I'm
pretty sure I didn't inadvertently activate it.

Am uninstalling now.

Seems Gateway and AOL have a deal.

Ahhh, of course, a restart of the system is required, as always........

If you have these AOL files in your startup, then it would seem that AOL has
been installed, at some stage.
Perhaps if this was a new PC it was supplied with an AOL service that merely
required activating. or perhaps there was a shortcut that was inadvertantely
activated.

 

[Uriel]

My response below about the VBS file was not in response to your post but to
Carey Frisch's, who proposed
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/xp_messenger_autorun.htm .

I was just expressing that I'd expect Messenger itself would surely offer
the option of being turned off.

Forgive me Uriel,

My post was along the lines of easiest options.

I meet many people with the ability to run a 3rd party app easily,
safely and confidently but also have an uncanny knack to make things go
skew-wiff if introduced to other solutions.

 

[Uriel]

Thanks. I will do that if Messenger arises again. It hasn't lately.
Sometimes, I find, there's a delayed reaction when you set something, or
turn something off.

I would note however that the description for that item in Add/Remove Pgms
says: "Adds or removes access to Win Messenger from the Start menu." --As
opposed to removing the component.

to get rid of messenger, open control panel, add remove programs, add remove
windows components, uncheck windows messenger, next, finish. No more
windows messenger.

 

[HeeroYuy]

Thanks. I will do that if Messenger arises again. It hasn't lately.
Sometimes, I find, there's a delayed reaction when you set something, or
turn something off.

I would note however that the description for that item in Add/Remove Pgms
says: "Adds or removes access to Win Messenger from the Start menu." --As
opposed to removing the component.

That only deletes the shortcut to Windows Messenger. It does nothing for
removing the program itself.

 

[Uriel]

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having

both at once. - RAH

Apt quote! Indeed I was asking for both.

As to the rest -- not sure what you mean. Messenger is already visible in
the list of windows components, and I already have a line in
C:\Windows\Inf\Sysoc.inf that reads:

"AccessUtil=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,accessor.inf,,7"

However, another entry in C:\Windows\Inf\Sysoc.inf may account for why I
couldn't follow the earlier suggestion from "Byte"
<[email protected]>, who advised:

------------------------------
Start>Run>type MSCONFIG and click OK
Click the Startup tab>uncheck msmsgs>Apply>Close>reboot
------------------------------

I have one line in that file that says:

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

I tried removing "hide", but msmsgs still doesn't appear in the Startup tab,
even after rebooting.

But unchecking things in the MSCONFIG startup tab wouldn't be an ideal
solution anyway, since as soon as you uncheck something there, the "startup
selection" on the general tab of MSCONFIG changes from Normal Startup to
Selective Startup, and you get various warning messages. I shouldn't have to
have an abnormal startup just because I want to disable Win Messenger.

I don't want to chat. I don't want instant notifications. I don't want to
know when my friends come online.

I want to be able to THINK a bit. Without interruption.

I've done everything to stop Windows Messenger's popup demands for info
but
it won't stop.

Under Messenger's Tools / Options / Preferences I have EVERYTHING
unchecked.
But it still interrupts me, like just now when I resumed from WinXP's
Stand
By.

Is there some way to get peace?

Modify C:\Windows\Inf\Sysoc.inf to remove the word "Hide" from
the pertinent Windows Components entries. Be sure to leave the two
surrounding commas in place. (Iow, change the line
"AccessUtil=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,accessor.inf,hide,7" to read
"AccessUtil=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,accessor.inf,,7"), and then go to Control
Panel > Add/Remove Programs > Add/Remove Windows Components. Windows
Messenger will now appear among the list of Windows components that can
be removed.


--

Bruce Chambers

Help us help you:



You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having
both at once. - RAH

 

[MAP]

I don't want to chat. I don't want instant notifications. I don't
want to know when my friends come online.

I want to be able to THINK a bit. Without interruption.

I've done everything to stop Windows Messenger's popup demands for
info but it won't stop.

Under Messenger's Tools / Options / Preferences I have EVERYTHING
unchecked. But it still interrupts me, like just now when I resumed
from WinXP's Stand By.

Is there some way to get peace?

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_messenger_remove.htm