From
http://www.fjsmjs.com/OE/disabmes.htm
To prevent MS Messenger from loading with OE you must do BOTH of these
things if you don't want to edit the Registry:
In Tools | Options uncheck the option to automatically logon to Messenger.
AND
In View | Layout uncheck the Contacts Pane.
OR
Go to Start | Run and type
Regedit
Go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Outlook Express
Add a New, DWORD value called Hide Messenger and set the value to 2.
(This step is required to prevent a long delay when opening OE with the
Contacts pane enabled)
To just stop it from running at all follow this advice from Kelly:
"Only 3 Registry edits are required to stop Messenger and get rid of the
delay in OE. Start/Run/Regedit
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Messenger\Client
Add the following values as New, DWord Values:
PreventRun
PreventAutoRun
Set the value of each of these to 1
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Outlook Express
Add a New, DWORD value called Hide Messenger and set the value to 2.
(This step is required to prevent a long delay when opening OE with the
Contacts pane enabled)
You can also stop the spam without disabling Messenger. In Messenger select
Tools | Options and open the Privacy tab. In MSN Messenger 5 there a check
box "Only people on My Allow List can see my status and send me messages"
that you can check (turn on). In Windows Messenger 4.7 you can select the
"All other users" in My Allow List and move it to My Block List. In both
cases the popups should stop and you can still IM with your friends.
--
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t.cruise said:
Maybe I wasn't clear. Windows Messenger does not run when I boot the
system, nor does it
run when I open Outlook Express in the Outlook Express Main Identity. It
runs when I'm in
Outlook Express and click the File menu, Switch Identity, and switch to
the second Outlook
Express Identity, even though in the Tools menu/Options/General tab
Automatically log on
to Windows Messenger is disabled for that second identity. I AM NOT
TALKING ABOUT WINDOWS
XP PROFILES, I am talking about a second Identity in Outlook Express in
the same XP
profile. It would not be in the RUN key that you describe, nor is it in
MSCONFIG/Startup
tab, because Windows Messenger does not run when the system boots, ONLY
when I switch into
the second Outlook Express Identity.
T.C.
Bruce Hagen said:
Stop Windows Messenger from Auto-Starting.
In the Identity in question:
Go to Start>Run>Regedit>OK. Find and delete the
following Registry Key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER
\Software
\Microsoft
\Windows
\CurrentVersion
\Run
\MSMSGS - {Delete}
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - (IE/OE)
~IB-CA~
t.cruise said:
This is probably an O.E. issue. But it might involve editing the
registry, so I thought
it might be best to post in this group. Windows XP 1a (SP2 is NOT
an option for this
system), The Windows Messaging program is disabled in Start/Program
Access and Defaults.
In the Main Identity of Outlook Express Tools/Options/General tab,
Automatically log on to
Windows Messenger is disabled. That works fine. But, I created a
new O.E. identity, and
when I switch to it, Windows Messenger always opens, even with the
Tools
menu/Options/General tab Automatically log on to Windows Messenger
DISABLED (unchecked).
Every time I switch to that new identity in O.E. Windows Messenger
opens. How can I stop
this?
--
T.C.
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