Windows messenger issues
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Windows messenger issues
I am trying to keep Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger from loading. I can keep the evils of this program from loading at startup by going into MSCONFIG, but as soon as I check my mail with Outlook Express, it automatically signs me in, and when I close Outlook, it signs out. Can anyone tell me how to keep Windows Messenger off...to keep it from signing in when I open Outlook? I do not want to be signed in when I check my mail because I use Trillian and it drops the connection it has already made.
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I've had this same problem. As best I can tell, WM is required with OE. My way to prevent signing in is to have Trillian running with its MSN element signed in instead.Solamnus wrote:I am trying to keep Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger from loading. I can keep the evils of this program from loading at startup by going into MSCONFIG, but as soon as I check my mail with Outlook Express, it automatically signs me in, and when I close Outlook, it signs out. Can anyone tell me how to keep Windows Messenger off...to keep it from signing in when I open Outlook? I do not want to be signed in when I check my mail because I use Trillian and it drops the connection it has already made.
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Windows Messenger is stupid anyway, you need file to remove it (don't worry, it's safe). You can stop MSN Messenger from signing in all the time like a 'tard, so remove W-M and install MSN-M.
The link to the file is:
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_messenger_remove.htm
The link to the file is:
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_messenger_remove.htm
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Unless there is something else called messenger, I just renamed the folder in Program Files. The only reason I didn't delete it was in the off chance I ever want it. The computer doesn't know it's there, and it never loads. It has never caused any problems at all.
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Its a setting in Outlook Express. I don't know exactly where it is since I absolutely REFUSE to use that security risk they call a mail client.
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That didn't work for me. I had to completely get rid of it.Vertigo1 wrote:Its a setting in Outlook Express. I don't know exactly where it is since I absolutely REFUSE to use that security risk they call a mail client.
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"Sir: Mr. Bernard Levin asks 'Can you eat quarks?' I estimate that he eats 500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,001 quarks a day...Yours faithfully..." -Sir Alan Cottrell
Elohim's loving mercy: "Hey, you, don't turn around. WTF! I said DON'T tur- you know what, you're a pillar of salt now. Bitch." - an anonymous commenter
"Sir: Mr. Bernard Levin asks 'Can you eat quarks?' I estimate that he eats 500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,001 quarks a day...Yours faithfully..." -Sir Alan Cottrell
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