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Anyone know how to remove windows messenger completely?

I hate it - never used it - never want to use it.

Now I'm getting incessant & annoying popups asking me to update  :-/

Anyone know how to zap the whole thing once & for all? I tried in Add/Remove Programs but it's not there ..

Hi Pete.

I have had exactly the same problem. And I finally found the sloution after days of looking for it on MSDN.

Click Start > Run.

Type the following:

RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove

and click OK. You may need to restart your computer, but Messenger will be gone, forever. Unless you download it again.

Hope it works (it did for me).

Jonathan

I updated it, and no more annoying pop-ups.

Problem solved

Hi Andrew,

Do you mean updated Messenger, or removed it as I said above?

Basically the same thing as GeForce said:
Start->Run->
c:\WINDOWS\inf\sysoc.inf

msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,hide,7
change to
msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,,7
then save the file.Uninstall messanger like any other Windows component in the Add or Remove Programs,then Add/Remove Windows Components.

Hi Andrew,

Do you mean updated Messenger, or removed it as I said above?

Updated it

Much Appreciated! Thanks GeForce

My pleasure  ;).