Disabling Those Annoying MMessages in Messenger
Disabling Those Annoying Pop Up Messages In Messenger For Windows 2,000 and XP
If you are getting those annoying pop up messages, here's how to get rid of them.
We express our appreciation to Chris Cant for providing these instructions.
How to stop windows messenger sending popup messages in windows XP.
Windows messenger sends out messages to your computer via msn popup, you can
stop this by doing the following,
press the left windows key,
press S, this will take you to settings press enter, now press enter on
control panel,
now press A, until you hear administration tools press enter on it.
Now
press S for services local, press enter, it will now say services local tree view.
press the tab key and this will take you to a list view.
once in this list press the M key, this will bring up the first messenger
service item we want to turn off, so now press alt enter this time,
This
will bring up the properties for this item, now tab across until you locate
the radio button to change it's status, it will say status started and set
to automatic, this means it's started when your computer starts up, so we
want to change this, down arrow until it says disable.
Now if you tab to the
next tab this will say stop button this will stop the service now and ask
you to confirm with a close button, press the space bar on this.
now this
will take you back in to the properties again where you tab to the apply
button press the space bar then tab to ok and press the space bar agai
n.
Your done now so alt F4 out of all of the windows you have opened..
Written by
Chris Cant.
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Updated on ... November 26, 2006