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by pgabor9

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How do you get rid of unwanted startup items in Windows XP, such as Windows Messender? It is not in the Startup folder but it is listed as one of the startup items under msconfig.exe.

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by thechas

You can deselect it in msconfig.

There have been some problems with removing Windows Messenger.
Check out detailed registry edits posted at www.onecomputerguy.com
and www.aumha.org

Watch carefully when you install Windows Updates. If you select a MS Messenger update, you may end up re-activating messenger.

Chas

by cbach1997

Another two places startup items show up is in the Program Group called Startup. Also open up the registry if you're comfortable (start...run...regedit) and look for the following (this is based on WinME, so hopefully this is right)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
SOFTWARE
MICROSOFT
WINDOWS
CURRENTVERSION
RUN

get rid of anything in there that you're positive is unnecesary.

Hope this helps, good luck
cbach1997@hotmail.com

by joe

For windows messanger you should be able to go into the Windows messanger and in the options deselect run on startup and run in background.

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