Latest updates installs Messenger - again

how best to get rid of it?

[nancyb]

damn, I missed noticing this part of the update and I don't want their obnoxious little prog sitting in the background. I got rid of it before this latest update but don't remember how.

Found these instruction on register dot com:

Use a text editor to open C:\WINDOWS\inf\sysoc.inf, and change
msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,hide,7 to
msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,,7

but the date of this article was back in 2002 ...

will this still work or is there a better way to get rid of messenger?

[Birdman]

Disabling Messenger Service in Windows XP [microsoft.com]

I believe that may be what you're after.

[nancyb]

Thanks for the quick reply Birdman but unfortunately that doesn't work. It was already disabled there.

any other ideas?

[outrun]

Lots of websites give you a way to do it rather then URL drop, it is click start then select run and copy the following

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

and paste and hit enter.

It uninstalls it so it should not come back even after updates.

[nancyb]

Gave up trying to find a way to uninstall/disable and used Restore to bo back. Made sure I unchecked the Windows Messenger update. That worked :)

<added> just a minute too late, or I was too early .. Thanks outrun!

[richlowe]

Wouldn't it be nice if norton and other antivirus programs removed messenger for you?