I have a question about Stop Pop-Up Spam Messages:

How do you find the services.msc in windows xp? I'm not quite sure how to find it . I would really love to disable the pop up feature. thanks for your time

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CHanele, go into the Administrative control panel and opne the "Services" folder. Look for the Windows Messaging entry. Double click on it and click on "Stop" then change the start up type to Disabled. This does not stop pop up ads that you see when using Internet Explorer. The messaging system is not a mjaor concern for most users. Pop up ads can be controlled with a program such as "Popper Stopper" which are free, or you can purchase a full vesion.


On Friday, July 11, 2003 at 2:39 pm, Chanele wrote:
>I have a question about Stop
>Pop-Up Spam Messages:

>
>How do you find the services.msc in windows xp? I'm not quite sure how to find it
>. I would really love to disable the pop up feature.
>thanks for your time
>
>

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Start, run, type services.msc, then hit enter the services.msc file comes up scroll down to messenger double click then disable then stop then click ok......ok.paul

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Taking the battery out of the smoke alarm quiets the annoying hi-pitched squeal but 
does not address the problem of the fire.

The Messenger Service on your computer is responding to spam being sent thru unprotected 
ports on your computer.  Turning off the Messenger Service does not plug the holes.

Install a good firewall (Sygate, Zone Alarm) or at the very least turn on the Internet 
Connection Firewall (ICF) that came with XP.  If you have SP1 applied, the settings 
for ICF have been modified to block the ports used to access the Messenger Service.

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