Msmsgs.exe won't go away

[cooter007]

I have disabled MSN Messenger at start up and I have checked “don’t run minimized” but msmsgs.exe keeps showing up in my Task List. I end the process and a few minutes later it starts back. I noticed it when I was playing a game….someone was trying to talk to me but I did not have MSN running but it popped up anyway. I’m running WindowsXP…… I want to keep MSN Messenger but I do not want it to run all the time.

[thronka]

thats the messenger service (not MSN messenger). you will need to disable that service in the admin controls.

[joker_927]

Get trillian. It has MSN messenger in it, and it's free.

You can never get rid of messenger. Even if you uninstall it through the control panel, it does nothing. I love uninstalling messenger though. The spyware filled crap-hole of a thing it is. (Read new on the newest version and it is filled with spyware and ads.) C:\Program Files\Messenger. DELETE!

Solves my problems and I talk to my friend on AIM MSN ICQ and YAHOO with one program: Trillian.

[joker_927]

Start->Run services.msc

find messenger and disable it.

[jmebonner]

It won't let me delete it, syas it's being used by something or other...

[dauss]

http://www.tweakxp.com/tweakxp/display.asp?id=1583

[cooter007]

As always you guyz are right on the money


Thanks a Million