re: Outlook Express starts Win Messenger, why?! How to get rid of it? Sunday, May 25, 2003 at 10:58 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Simon Holywell (1 messages posted) That fix is brilliant thanks so much. Now it doesn't start bloody msn everytime i check my email. fantastic, can;t thank you enough. Simon On Tuesday, November 19, 2002 at 6:48 am, J.T. Kiser wrote: >Stop Windows Messenger from Auto-Starting > >Simply delete the following Registry Key: > >HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\MSMSGS > > >Remove MSN Messenger from Outlook Express > >Start/Run/Regedit > >HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Outlook Express. Value Name: Hide Messenger, >Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value), Value Data: (2 = remove messenger). Create a >new DWORD value, or modify the existing value, called 'Hide Messenger' and set the >value to 2. > >Exit your registry, you may need to restart or log out of Windows for the change >to take effect. > > > Written in response to: re: Outlook Express starts Win Messenger, why?! How to get rid of it? (J.T. Kiser: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 at 6:48 am) Responses to this message: re: Outlook Express starts Win Messenger, why?! How to get rid of it? (Sacha: Tuesday, July 8, 2003 at 6:54 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Outlook Express starts Win Messenger, why?! How to get rid of it? (barondro: Mon, Nov 18, 2002, 4:08 pm) re: Outlook Express starts Win Messenger, why?! How to get rid of it? (PP: Mon, Nov 18, 2002, 4:42 pm) re: Outlook Express starts Win Messenger, why?! How to get rid of it? (rowkinet: Mon, Nov 18, 2002, 5:15 pm) re: Outlook Express starts Win Messenger, why?! How to get rid of it? (alex: Wed, Jun 18, 2003, 8:22 pm) re: Outlook Express starts Win Messenger, why?! How to get rid of it? (Jason: Mon, Nov 18, 2002, 7:33 pm) re: Outlook Express starts Win Messenger, why?! How to get rid of it? (jagged ben: Tue, Nov 19, 2002, 12:03 am) re: Outlook Express starts Win Messenger, why?! How to get rid of it? (James: Mon, Jun 30, 2003, 12:04 am) re: Outlook Express starts Win Messenger, why?! How to get rid of it? (Chad Baumann: Tue, Nov 19, 2002, 1:40 am) re: Outlook Express starts Win Messenger, why?! How to get rid of it? (William: Fri, Dec 20, 2002, 11:01 am) re: Outlook Express starts Win Messenger, why?! How to get rid of it? (tassos: Sat, Feb 12, 2005, 5:36 am) re: Outlook Express starts Win Messenger, why?! How to get rid of it? (H. Erdendog: Mon, Jul 7, 2003, 5:13 am) re: Outlook Express starts Win Messenger, why?! How to get rid of it? (Chad Baumann: Mon, Jul 7, 2003, 9:30 am) re: Outlook Express starts Win Messenger, why?! How to get rid of it? (nOOGE: Mon, Jul 7, 2003, 11:36 pm) re: Outlook Express starts Win Messenger, why?! How to get rid of it? (Chad Baumann: Tue, Jul 8, 2003, 7:44 am) re: Outlook Express starts Win Messenger, why?! How to get rid of it? (J.T. Kiser: Tue, Nov 19, 2002, 6:48 am) re: Outlook Express starts Win Messenger, why?! How to get rid of it? (Rob: Mon, Jan 6, 2003, 2:22 pm) re: Outlook Express starts Win Messenger, why?! How to get rid of it? (Savathar: Fri, Jan 24, 2003, 3:49 pm) re: Outlook Express starts Win Messenger, why?! How to get rid of it? (Savathar: Fri, Jan 24, 2003, 4:07 pm) re: Outlook Express starts Win Messenger, why?! How to get rid of it? (Wijiwang: Sat, May 17, 2003, 10:51 am) re: Outlook Express starts Win Messenger, why?! How to get rid of it? (chris: Wed, Aug 6, 2003, 11:32 pm) Sav had the Answer!!! (Soda: Fri, Nov 21, 2003, 7:52 am) re: Outlook Express starts Win Messenger, why?! How to get rid of it? (Ken: Wed, Mar 31, 2004, 2:02 am) re: Outlook Express starts Win Messenger, why?! How to get rid of it? (Simon Holywell: Sun, May 25, 2003, 10:58 am) re: Outlook Express starts Win Messenger, why?! How to get rid of it? (Sacha: Tue, Jul 8, 2003, 6:54 pm) re: Outlook Express starts Win Messenger, why?! How to get rid of it? (Adria: Tue, Jul 15, 2003, 6:59 pm) re: Outlook Express starts Win Messenger, why?! How to get rid of it? (Unmountable Boot VOlume: Wed, Jul 16, 2003, 6:50 pm) re: Outlook Express starts Win Messenger, why?! How to get rid of it? (Justin: Mon, Aug 18, 2003, 3:09 pm) re: IT IS EASY! Outlook Express starts Win Messenger, why?! How to get rid of it? (JGBeyer: Tue, Aug 26, 2003, 12:30 am) Thank You (Graham: Wed, Sep 17, 2003, 10:26 am) re: Outlook Express starts Win Messenger, why?! How to get rid of it? (Ken: Wed, Mar 31, 2004, 1:54 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum