re: strange pop-up at winxp home log on Monday, January 19, 2004 at 12:03 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Ken (18 messages posted) Go to control panel, administrative services, then services. Look for a file called messenger. Stop it and disable it. That may take care of your problem. I had continual popups until I disable it, now I have non. On Sunday, January 18, 2004 at 9:05 pm, Tim wrote: >Recently a small pop-up dialog box started appearing at the log on screen using winxp >home. The box is empty except for YES - NO buttons. Can't close unless you click >one of the buttons, then windows would start. Now however, when you click either >button, the machine just logs off back to the sign on screen, over and over again. >Help!?! I've also got a friend eXPeriancing the same thing. Virus scan (Norton) and >Ad Aware show nothing. Any ideas out there?? Written in response to: strange pop-up at winxp home log on (Tim: Sunday, January 18, 2004 at 9:05 pm) Responses to this message: re: strange pop-up at winxp home log on (nantespov: Monday, January 19, 2004 at 6:20 am) All messages in this thread [show all] strange pop-up at winxp home log on (Tim: Sun, Jan 18, 2004, 9:05 pm) re: strange pop-up at winxp home log on (mojo7819: Sun, Jan 18, 2004, 9:55 pm) re: strange pop-up at winxp home log on (Ken: Mon, Jan 19, 2004, 12:03 am) re: strange pop-up at winxp home log on (nantespov: Mon, Jan 19, 2004, 6:20 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