How to completely remove Windows Messenger

[Roshan]

My company has adopted a new policy to not use MSN
Messenger and Windows Messenger at all in our office (to
prevent employees from wasting time chatting away). I
can remove MSN messenger no problem, but everytime I
remove Windows Messenger, it keeps coming back after
rebooting! We use Microsoft Outlook 2000, dunno if the
two are tied in together.

 

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Greetings Roshan,

For Windows Messenger 4.x, close 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

For Windows Messenger 5, close 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):
msiexec.exe /x {ABEB838C-A1A7-4C5D-B7E1-8B4314B10138}
and then click OK.
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com

 

[Margaret]

can you tell me how i completely remove v6+

 

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Hi Margaret,

To completely remove MSN Messenger 6, just click Start, then Control Panel, then Add or
Remove Programs, then click MSN Messenger and then click 'Remove'.
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com