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JX030389
July 25th, 2003, 04:38
Do you have those bitchy little grey box pop-ups from "Messenger Service"? I know I did, there on every damn computer with Windows Home. For you who don't know how to kill uhm...

Start Menu
Settings
Control Panel
Administrative Tools
Services
Scroll down to messenger, right click it, hit properties, hit stop...

You will never have a damn Messneger Service box interuppting your life again...God I hate those...
Hexidecimal
July 25th, 2003, 05:26
Or, you could completely get rid of the messenger by uninstalling it, the tweak is available at www.tweakxp.com and you never have to worry about MSN Messenger again.
JX030389
July 25th, 2003, 05:33
Yah, I was simply providing an alternative to adding more crap to my computer, but yah that worx too...
nephalim
July 25th, 2003, 05:48
Umm, stopping the service won't do anything, except prevent the messages during THAT logon. You'd have to change it from "automatic" to "disabled" to get rid of the service permanently.
The Khan Artist
July 25th, 2003, 05:58
Or, you could completely get rid of the messenger by uninstalling it, the tweak is available at www.tweakxp.com and you never have to worry about MSN Messenger again.

Not MSN Messenger, the Windows Messenger Service.
JX030389
July 25th, 2003, 06:11
Oh mistype naphalim is right hit disable, not stop.
AlphaWolf
July 25th, 2003, 06:29
Just so you guys know, that service has nothing to do with MSN messenger.
Eagle
July 26th, 2003, 17:41
Correct, messenger service is what networked computers use to send network messages. (Those little grey popups) Just like JX said.
Doomulation
July 26th, 2003, 21:44
Not MSN Messenger, the Windows Messenger Service.
Although msn messener CAN, unlike, messenger, correct me if i'm wrong, be uninstalled.
nephalim
July 27th, 2003, 02:23
Although msn messener CAN, unlike, messenger, correct me if i'm wrong, be uninstalled.
I don't think so, but i'm not positive.
Tagrineth
July 27th, 2003, 03:34
You're all silly and paranoid :flowers:

*doesn't even HAVE MSN messenger installed on her comp and never did*
Kevin11
July 27th, 2003, 03:48
*doesn't even HAVE MSN messenger installed on her comp and never did*

I thought it came with Windows XP? At least my copy of XP did. Is that "Corp" version you have something special?
2fast4u
July 27th, 2003, 09:59
I thought it came with Windows XP? At least my copy of XP did. Is that "Corp" version you have something special?

yes it did. and got uninstalled asap. :sleeping:
AlphaWolf
July 27th, 2003, 10:12
I thought it came with Windows XP? At least my copy of XP did. Is that "Corp" version you have something special?

Not all versions, but the *later* versions of SP1 have MSN messenger not installed by default. She is probably using a streamlined SP1 cd to install it (same thing I use), which would prevent you from ever even seeing it unless you specificaly add it.

I don't know why anybody would want that damn thing anyways, its so freaking annoying, not to mention a waste. IMO, MSN is every bit as bad as AOL.
Macca
July 27th, 2003, 10:19
a little off topic but speaking of sps, anyone know when sp2 is due?

and yeh i've both messenger due to constant spams
vampireuk
July 27th, 2003, 13:34
Good old Trillian, it has them all in one program for me :D
2fast4u
July 27th, 2003, 13:59
Good old Trillian, it has them all in one program for me :D

seconded! :happy:
Macca
July 27th, 2003, 14:09
seconded! :happy:

thirdered...tho i only use msn on it :)
Kevin11
July 27th, 2003, 16:46
a little off topic but speaking of sps, anyone know when sp2 is due?

Q1 2004. Still a long way off. :(
alexa999
July 27th, 2003, 16:49
There is not really a point to this thread anymore. :getlost:
vampireuk
July 27th, 2003, 18:26
So why did you post in it?
Eagle
July 27th, 2003, 19:31
Well the thread got off topic, but its still not off topic from the forum its in so its just gonna have to stay open.

I use Trillian too, cept the IRC function on it sucks.
The Khan Artist
July 28th, 2003, 21:33
I use Trillian too, cept the IRC function on it sucks.

mIRC is still the best IRC program, and I think it's going to be that way for a while.
nephalim
July 29th, 2003, 00:25
Is Windows Messenger (NOT the service, I forget exactly what it's called...it's like MSN's version of AIM,) part of MSN? Cause I definetely have that installed and I installed a streamlined SP1 corp CD.
Clements
July 29th, 2003, 00:42
Windows Messenger is almost the same as MSN messenger.

I use MSN Messenger 6.0 currently, because that's what my friends that I chat to all use. No real point to getting others since they don't use those.
AlphaWolf
July 29th, 2003, 08:38
mIRC is still the best IRC program, and I think it's going to be that way for a while.

Maybe the best for windows...there are various IRC clients for linux are like mIRC only with every single feature that you could possibly want yet mIRC wont ever include.

Speak of IRC though, I think the majority of people who use instant messengers just haven't heard of IRC before or something. Instant messengers remind me of a realy annoying neighbor who likes to knock on your door every two minutes just to chat about a boring subject that you hardly give a shit about. IRC is instant messaging, only without the annoying neighbor part.
The Khan Artist
July 29th, 2003, 20:47
Maybe the best for windows...there are various IRC clients for linux are like mIRC only with every single feature that you could possibly want yet mIRC wont ever include.


I tried xchat and kvirc or something like that, and didn't quite like them. Mozilla's IRC proggy sucks. And I never was able to get into BitchX.

So I installed mIRC in Wine, and was happy.
nephalim
July 30th, 2003, 01:20
text-based irc for linux forever! :)

All those scripts were so much fun...but being able to have lots of channel and msg windows open is a necessary evil.

I used to be able to "talk" irc...communicate with the server without a client. I was one of the very first who started playing with IRC's standards, and I had a very small irc network and had my very own script which I made by hand which allowed you to play god. What it did was hook in a fake IRC server to the network (you obviously need permissions from the connecting server to do this,) and you were really the server. It allowed you to do ALL sorts of things that the EFNet IRC standard did not allow. Now there are all sorts of "hacked" server standards, hell every network is different. I was a pioneer, even if my efforts were futile! Damn, I wish I still had a copy of that script, I put alot of work into it and it was loads of fun.
Tagrineth
July 30th, 2003, 20:15
WinXP Pro. Corp. is the corporate edition that I ah... procured some time ago. It doesn't require activation =)

It didn't come with MSN or MSN Messenger or anything like that.
nephalim
July 31st, 2003, 01:24
WinXP Corp does indeed come with MSN Messenger! I had it automatically installed with both a regular corp and a sp1 corp install.
Tagrineth
July 31st, 2003, 16:53
And yet, I don't have anything related to MSN on my system, never have, and never will. Funky. :flowers:
AlphaWolf
July 31st, 2003, 17:43
WinXP Corp does indeed come with MSN Messenger! I had it automatically installed with both a regular corp and a sp1 corp install.

Are you sure you didn't install corp first and then upgrade it to SP1? I can confirm exactly what Tagrineth is saying. (You know what will probably happen though, is MS may add MSN back in a future revision/service pack, they always do crap like that. The later revisions of SP1 may have added it back already...)
nephalim
July 31st, 2003, 18:37
It was bundled, i'm positive. God knows what Micro$oft does, though.
The Khan Artist
August 1st, 2003, 00:24
MSN Messenger came with my install. Here's what I did:

Buy XP Pro (non-SP1) OEM edition from NewEgg
Download and patch it with corpfiles.zip
Make a corp key with the BlueLight keygen

I used it that way for a few months. It had MSN Messenger. About 2 weeks after SP1 came out, I downloaded the network installer, and patched my CD with the slipstreamy-thingy. I then reinstalled Windows on my PC from scratch with the new CD.

That installation is what I am running now. It most definately had MSN Messenger with it.

I prefer GAIM, anyways.