WIndows Messenger

[poprockgrrl.livejournal.com]

I recently installed XP on my machine and I read about a reg hack to make the stupid Messenger icon get out of my quick launch task bar but I can't remember what it is. Anyone have a clue? Of course you can't fomd any info on MS' site about it...

Comments

[alacrity.livejournal.com]

Erm, I wouldn't do that, I don't think that does what you want it to do anyway. What it sounds like you want is for MS Messenger to just not start when Windows starts, and you can do that in the Preferences.

(funny asside, I'm having the darndest time trying to actually run the program so I can tell you exactly where to go -- I seem to have deleted all the icons for it too. ;-)

Ok: Tools -> Options -> Preferences Tab -> uncheck 'Run this program when Windows starts'
All done.

[oddball42.livejournal.com]

my solution to MSN going away was to first diasbale it in the MSN options, the second thing you will need to do is hunt down in OE6 or outlook XP and choose the option thats integrates msn with your address book. if need me to i can track it down in xp when i get home...

msn just annoyes me and i made it go away without uninstalling it...

you can go to ntfs.org for a whole bunch of XP based tweaks.

[wildkard.livejournal.com]

To remove it from XP, just paste the following line into your START > RUN box.

RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove

there. done. This is basically an uninstall of the program. It will stop working across all user accounts and... well, you didn't really need it anyway right?. I believe it's also easy to add again as a Windows component, just in case you change your mind. Just a pain to shut off.

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[poprockgrrl.livejournal.com]

thanks! that did the trick!