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To: shadowman who wrote (46002)4/18/2005 12:58:59 PM
From: Patricia Meaney   of 110653
 
I think I finally figured it out - I found this and it seemed to do the trick:

re: Windows Messenger still loads on startup
Thursday, August 5, 2004 at 10:33 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Brian (1 messages posted)

Ive been having the same problem as some of you, i noticed that msmsgs.exe (process
that runs MSN 4.7, which is built into XP) would start up on its own even if i had
removed all instances of it in startup portions of the registry or within its startup
options itself or in the system config utility. I also had MSN 6.2 installed and
had it set to run on startup but it wouldnt log in becuase MSN 4.7 had allready signed
me in. So i did a little more research and found out what to do.

1. Start > Control Panel > Add/Remove programs > Add/Remove windows components >
then scroll down and uncheck the windows messenger box.

2. Start > Run | then type: RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove

This will totally remove MSN 4.7 and ask you to restart your computer. Im not sure
why windows has MSN 4.x built into its OS and i dont know why it doesnt atomatically
remove itself or get replaced when you upgrade to a 6.x version. I think it might
have something to do with the .net setup. If anyone else knows, please respond to
this post. I hope this works for you guys.
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