I would like to disable Windows Messenger which is
currently being abused by family members.  It is part of
the operating system and appears to be protected.  Is
there a way it can be disabled without affecting Windows

I have 3 windows xp pro machines sharing a dlink router
that supports UPnP.
Have windows messenger 5.0.0482 and msn messenger 6.2.0133 installed
on all.

I am  trying to set up  video and voice on Messenger 4.7 for my wife to use
with a friend in the Netherlands. The Holland friend has a Dell wireless g
router connected to local DSL and has recently purchased several Dell
laptops with Windows XP Home running Norton Firewall.

i am being told to open tcp ports to speed up file transfer but cant find them to open!!

When trying to send a message to anyone on my network, I
get the following error.
The message alias could not be found on the network.
More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2273.

Don't know which windows meseenger it is but it uses
4 096 bytes on my computer.  
I can't exit the windows messenger. It tells me something
is in use even when I close explorer, outlook etc.

I had a very important conversation on MSN Messenger,
version 6.1 , but it was exited before it was saved and
although I dont think it is possible, I would like to know
if there is any file that it might be temporarily stored

A friend of mine was working on my computer the other day, and he logged into MSN Messanger to chat with his friends.
Now, when I boot up my computer, I get a message (20 unread messages) next to my sign in account (these are actually his unread emails).
I have tried removing all ...

ok.. first of all, my msn was working fine until i was chatting and the
later on it sayz "msg cannot be delivered to all participantz" it say
dat to hueva i chat to. so i sign out. then i sign back in. den it say
dat my email n pw doesnt exist. oh btw, i also have a virus i dont n

A granddaughter used our computer and started using
Messenger.  We had never used it and don't want to.  Now
we get these annoying msgs from her friends and from the
system - always popping up on the screen. How can we get

I had this error repeating all day yesterday and tried
all of the advice and finally got it to stop but I still
cannot get into messenger and my Outlook Express tries to
download mail but never succeeds.  Can anyone out there

when i try to open most microsoft progs especially msn
6.2 and 6.0 an error box comes up saying "The ordinal 176
could not be located in the dynamic library
OLEAUT32.dll." does anyone know how to fix this so i can

I wasn't particularly keen that the MSN add-in functionality was removed from this build of messenger so I decided to revert back to build 4.7.2009
The problem being that with the original version installed, the MSN server no longer appears to recognise any of my Hotmail passport ...

Since allowing my XP system to run a live update my
Messenger systems (MSN and Yahoo) will not run properly
and my PC is plagued with the constant popping-up of
the "Messenger has encountered a problem and needs to

Why am I unable to chat with my contacts.  I can hear/see them but they can not hear/see me.