pop-ups

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Heidi

At the beginning of the year, I got cable. I am now
connected to the Internet via cable. A couple of months
ago, I installed XP Professional. Since then I've been
getting these creepy gray pop-ups selling everything
from "stop these pop-ups" to porn. During a routine
service request to Microsoft on another issue, I asked
about how to stop the pop-ups. The staffer walked me
through a series of steps designed to disable the pop-ups.
Well, that didn't work.

I would appreciate information on disabling these pop-ups.

Thanks ~
 
Do a quick search in this newsgroup - the same question (along with answers)
has been posted literally hundreds of times

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HTH

Please feedback.

Rich
 
Greetings Heidi,

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
real third-party applications should be effected by this.
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Windows MVP, Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
 
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