re: Messenger refuses to die
Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 10:44 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Wormy
(1 messages posted)
IF ALL YOU want to do is get rid of that annoying icon, which is pretty much what
everyone wants to do, don't uninstall the impossible. Just open Messenger like you
are going to use it, then when it's not looking, sneak into its options and uncheck
the 'load on windows startup' checkbox.
It wont actually delete the program, but it is small enough to the point where you
will not be wasting space, and it will not load in the background, so it wont waste
memory either.
I still can't uninstall windows media player 8 though. I dont even care about uninstalling,
I just wish that when i right click an MP3 it wouldn't give me a bunch of stupid
WMP options. Takes up 1/2 my screen.
On Saturday, February 22, 2003 at 9:05 am, Jester101 wrote:
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>Ok here's the problem. I am using XP Pro with SP1.
>I have deleted hide from everything in sysoc.inf and uninstalled messenger via add
>remove windows components. Reboot PC and....The little spawn of satan is still
there.
> Back to add remove windows components and there is no tick in the box next to the
>standard messenger icon BUT there is another box with a tick in it underneath it.
> This is next to a grey diamond icon also named windows messenger. I know just
untick
>this one aswell and be gone evil one. Err...not quite. I cannot untick this second
>entry or rather I can select it and the disk space goes up or down accordingly
but
>tick is always there. I have selected the lesser disk space so to speak as if I
>was uninstalling this component; upon reboot the icon still takes up valuable real
>estate on my task bar. Any priests out there ???????
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- Messenger refuses to die (Jester101: Saturday, February 22, 2003 at 9:05 am)
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