I've been using the same copy of Windows 2000 on my home computer for year and a half. For past 6 months. Everytime I reinstall a fresh copy I get pop-ups that look like dialog boxes w/ advertisments on them and I need to click 'OK' for them to go away. It's supposed to be some kind of "Messanger Service". Can anyone tell me how to disable it. It's really anoying especially when it freezes program that runs in the whole screen (e.i. game). The interesting question that I'd like to know is why did it started only 6 months ago. Do you think that Microsoft put this service there not telling anybody just to use it later???