windows messenger, how do i kill it?

i have windows xp and ms office...

 

1. Click Start and then click Control Panel.

2. Click Performance and Maintenance. (If you do not see the Performance and Maintenance icon, you may be using Classic View. You can skip to step 3 below, but you must double-click Administrative Tools.)


3. Click Administrative Tools.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/images/using/security/learnmore/admintools.jpg

4. Double-click Services as shown in Figure 1 above..

5. Double-click Messenger.

6. In the Startup type list, choose Disabled as shown in Figure 2 below.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/images/using/security/learnmore/messengerprop.jpg

Figure 2. Choose Disabled from the Startup type list in Messenger Properties.

7. Click Stop, and then click OK.

 

Are we talking about Windows Messenger, or Messenger service?

They are both very different beasts.

 

i disabled the services.. but the stupid messanger still pops up when i start my cpu up... i guess what i want is to get in and audit and remove stuff from my start up stuff..

 

No, what you want to do is remove Windows Messenger. The service is irrelevant.

You have two choices, you can go into the options of Messenger, and set it to not startup with windows.

Or you can remove it.

Start, run

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

Click ok.

(Do not remove it from add/remove windows components, that doesn't do anything)

This will completely remove it from your system. You will have to reinstall it if you ever need it again.

 

If you want to get rid of msn messenger --------copy and past this in the run command than you can go to add and remove and it will be there so you can remove it. below is the line to copy this works

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

 

thanks alot for the help! you all rock!

 

Two and a half hours after I posted the same thing

 

I noticed the same thing, then I had to check closely between your post and the other post.

Yours:

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

and

wk990's

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

Only difference I see is the capital letters for inf (INF). Same results will come out of it.

 

what the hell differance doe's it make it works

 

Nothing, we were just commenting on how you ignored my previous post and reposted the same fix