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| 37219 | 2002-02-26 19:56:00 | I'm running Windows XP Home edition. Last night when I logged off to change to my other account, it said below my icon 'Two unread email messages'. I had no idea where that came from. Then I found out my dear 'friend' installed that idiotic Microsoft Messenger program that you can get to track your hotmail messages. I've tried EVERYTHING to get rid of it. I went into the SYSOC.INF file and unset the 'hide' option so that the Windows Messenger was now in my add remove programs list. I clicked on remove program, and thankfully the little icon is gone but I'm still being told when I log out that I have seven new messages waiting. I thought I got rid of the darn thing but it just keeps coming back. Help? |
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| 37220 | 2002-02-26 21:07:00 | If you double click on the Messenger Icon, and open the windows, click on Tools from the menu, then Options. In the window that opens click on Preferences and untick the top box, which says 'Run this program when Windows starts'. Now Messenger should never run except when you tell it to, or when you access Hotmail, or run Outlook Express. When it does run, to stop it from automatically logging on to whoever's account it logs on to, open the Control Panel (Start Button > Control Panel), then click on User Accounts. Open your default user, and from the list at the left, click on 'Manage network passwords'. In the new window the opens up there should be a list of users or passwords associated with your computer. Find the one that looks something like 'Passport/*' (I'm not too sure what it says, but it has a star at the end) and delete it. Click close, and close all the other windows that you opened in the process. Now if Messenger does happen to start, it won't log on, and you won't get those messages about new email. Windows Messenger is part of Windows XP, so I don't think you can actually remove it from your computer, but you can stop it from running, and this process should have done that for you. HTH Mike. |
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