KILL MSNMessenger!

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Hi All,

If you enjoy your freedom and don't like stuff shoved down your throat, make a stand and start out by killing the incidious MSNMessenger from your system.

I know it's popular, and in another life I might use it, but it had me hacking through the registry on a brand new box trying to figure out why I get this little "wait/hourglass" next to my pointer - on or offline - almost exactly every 2 minutes. It was driving me crazy. Why? Because I didn't ask for the darn thing to begin with, never used it or started it up, it just ran by itself! Can you imagine? No way, friends. I paid $1,200. for this system (including XP/Home) and I didn't ask for this thing in the price, so why is it running without my explicit permission?

Anyway, problem solved - on my machine this worked. Go to this website and pick your poison. The 0 method worked for me.

http://www.druid628.com/techtips/windows/msmsgs/uninstall_msn.htm

DeeAitch
 
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Hi All,

If you enjoy your freedom and don't like stuff shoved
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down your throat, make a stand and start out by killing
the incidious MSNMessenger from your system.
I know it's popular, and in another life I might use it,
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but it had me hacking through the registry on a brand new
box trying to figure out why I get this
little "wait/hourglass" next to my pointer - on or
offline - almost exactly every 2 minutes. It was driving
me crazy. Why? Because I didn't ask for the darn thing to
begin with, never used it or started it up, it just ran
by itself! Can you imagine? No way, friends. I paid
$1,200. for this system (including XP/Home) and I didn't
ask for this thing in the price, so why is it running
without my explicit permission?
Anyway, problem solved - on my machine this worked. Go
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to this website and pick your poison. The 0 method worked
for me.
http://www.druid628.com/techtips/windows/msmsgs/uninstall _msn.htm

DeeAitch
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Wow,my kids love it,I have no use for it,so under my
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screen nameI have it checked off the msconfig/startup tab
so it won't run at start-up,then went to
www.kellykorner.com/xptweaks or whatever(google
search),get the tool remove unchecked items in the
msconfig,so I can have a normal start-up without it,or
anything else for that matter,only thing that fires up at
start-up is AV and firewall.Then the kids can still use
it and it doesn't bother me.start,run,type in
msconfig,startup tab,uncheck the msmsgs,apply ok on
restartcheck dont show again or go to the kelly korner
site and get the tool to remove the entry,then you can
still have use of it if you want to.you can speed up
everything if you uncheck everything,go into your AV and
turn it back on,thats all you need at startup
anyway.Lucky it's there or you woulda paid $1500 for the
same thing,chill you hate spreader,chill!
 
Thanks for the feed back,

You're right, you can do ALL these things to get rid of it but I sure would like to know up front.

The concept is terrific. My wife uses hers, but it doesn't seem to be so deeply imbedded in the operating system. Heres never checks for new messages or whatever like this one did.

This is the truth: I killed this thing at startup in msconfig, removed all traces (I thought) of it from the registry, downloaded an MVP recommended process monitoring tool and tried "killing" it with that, and still the thing was searching for a connection or whatever it does, every 2 minutes. I know I didn't tell it to do that . . .

Anyway, I like stuff I can choose. All's well that ends well. I got rid of it and I don't get the annoying little wait/hourglass every 2 minutes. Now I can enjoy my new computer. :-) Thanks again for your reply.

DeeAitch
 
You can also kill the messenger utilizing the services under administrator settings, just put it in amnual and disable it.
 
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