My god its annoying!!

[- - -Nick- - -]

holy crap... i hate these stupid messenger things that
pop-up when im trying to play a game! Every time it does
happen, my comp freezes and i have to restart it. And the
worst part is, when it exits my game I have to start over
without saving! Could someone please help? How do I stop
them? How do I get rid of messenger entirely?!

Thanks, pissed off at the moment,
Nick

 

[PJC]

What I have experienced is a similair thing - it is not
the messenger service that is causing the issue. What
happens is than when Windows or MSN Messenger IM cleint
is logged in, it issues a pop up notification just above
the system tray whenever a new IM or MSN or Hotmail
message is received. I found that to keep this from
interrupting my gaming experiences was simply to sign out
of messenger before starting a game or editing
the "Options" -> "Preferences" in Messenger and uncheck
basically everything under that tab (most of it is self
explanatory). I disbale it from signing in automatically
and I disable alerts sometimes.

Good luck!

-----Original Message-----
Greetings Nick,

Do these "pop-ups" that are appearing have "Messenger

Service" in their titlebar? If so, what

you're seeing is the Messenger service built-in to

Windows, *not* Windows Messenger (which

are two different things) which spammers are exploiting -

- this is not Microsoft, nor can

Microsoft control them anymore then they can control spam to your e-mail inbox.

To get rid of these pop ups, you'll need to disable

the "Messenger Service", click Start,

then Run, enter "services.msc"and click OK. Scroll down to "Messenger", select it,
right-click and then choose Properties. Under startup

type, choose 'Disabled' and then

choose the 'Stop' button. After the service is stopped,

click OK. Nothing in Windows or any