*moved* Dumping Windows messenger on XP

I showed this little trick to a friend and he thought that it was great so I thought I would throw a quick "how to" on here for others.

Microsoft has made it a little tricky to get rid of Windows messenger. However, as with everything, there are ways around this.

Using Windows Explorer navigate to c:\windows\inf\sysoc.inf.
Look for the line starting with "msmsgs" and remove "hide," from the end of this line.
Now goto Control Panel -> Add/Remove -> Windows Components. Windows Messenger should now be listed.
All you have to do now is remove the checkmark from it.

Hope this helps out!

cool.....now I can get rid of that damn thing. :)

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navigate to c:\windows\inf\sysoc.inf.
Look for the line starting with "msmsgs" and remove "hide," from the end of this line.

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cheers for that!
i would love to know where you got that from, where did micros~1 choose to document that? i'm guessing it is part of one of their courses...the ones you have to pay to do...?

Cool! no more messenger spam!

That is a very good method. That could be done easily with a script that you incorporate in the logon script for a week or so.

Another good way to get rid of the sh17 m$ installs and "phones home" with is XP Anti-Spy.

The site is german, but they have an english version of the tool. This works pretty well and does more than remove the messenger that they install.

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i would love to know where you got that from, where did micros~1 choose to document that? i'm guessing it is part of one of their courses...the ones you have to pay to do...?

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Actually, this is a well known "fix" for the annoying Windows messenger client. I did not want it loaded so I went digging on the web. I found several places that discussed it. I just happened to show this to a buddy and he was totally blown away. After that, I thought that others here may have a use for this little gem.

Regards.

god bless you, horsey... :)

thehorse13> way to dig! i'm sure others will have use for such information. i'm still curious though as to its origins, this and other information like it. it has to get out of redmond "first", though given enough time someone would have wised up to it eventually.
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very well but I can't find windows messanger

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As to its original origin, who knows. I do have an inside contact at MS so maybe he can shed some light on it. As soon as he replies to my e-mail, I will post his comments.

Hope this helps out.

Guys,

Maybe it is just me but thehorse13's steps to get rid of Windows Messenger didn't function to me.

Besides, where thehorse13 says:

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Now goto Control Panel -> Add/Remove -> Windows Components. Windows Messenger should now be listed.
All you have to do now is remove the checkmark from it...

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If you remove the chechmark from it, it says that it will only remove an access to Messenger from the desktop, or quick start, or something similar (i don't remember now) but not that it will remove Windows Messenger from your PC... and so maybe it didn't function to me.

I just can't understand why many of you say something like "yeah!!!, i will get rid of Messenger, thanks..." without testing thehorse13 steps. Do any of you could uninstall Messenger with thehorse13 steps?

One more thing, phishphreek80's program (link) did it perfectly!!! ;)

Bye,

DKRR

yes but why get ride of Windows messanger? Why is everyone so obessed? I use it with clients so they can send me requests over MSN messanger for Remote Assistance. I just don't understand I guess...

Hi,

I just used it to get ride of Mesenger version 4.7 that works separately from version 5.0.0543 (last one) and so i was using both versions at once. Now i just have 5.0.0543 and use it to chat with many friends, customers, and AO members... as well as AIM, Yahoo! Messenger and ICQ. If a friend, familiar or customer has one of these clients then i have it to chat with them...

I understand and agree with your point AciDriveHB.

Bye,

DKRR

DKRR-

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as well as AIM, Yahoo! Messenger and ICQ.

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Thats just silly to run all those. Just use trillian!

It will roll all those IM clients into one, easy to use client with skins you can change.

phishphreek80,

I don't like Trillian and its boring interface (personally), i just prefer to use them separately and that's the only reason i'm doing it :D not silly, lol :D AIM has an ugly interface but i used AIMutation to convert it into a good looking one. I have already written before that i don't like Trillian. ;)

Bye,

DKRR

Raider,

the steps I posted worked fine for me as well as a few others. I can't think of a reason why it did not work for you. What happened? Did it fail to show up in the list after you edited the file?

thehorse13,

Nope, the steps where OK and it showed up in the list after editing and erasing the "hide, " part. Then i unchecked the box, clicked accept, rebooted, went to program files / messenger, open messenger and the program started. So... it wasn't uninstalled.

But it's OK, i used phishphreek link and it did the job.

Thanks,

DKRR

OK cool.

So you are now using trillian? I used it but I got tired of MSN, AOL and yahoo blocking access to the trillian client. What build are they up to? The last one I used was pretty buggy. If you blocked someone, they could still see you. Anyway, that was about 8 months ago.

Regards