instant messenger...........

[wetdog]

...........G'tanga my friends, everytime i switch my machine on and boot through win 7, i now get instant messenger starting up and lurking in my taskbar. i didnt install it, or request it,. so how do i remove it, permanently?
i have looked for it, but theres niothing that sticks out saying inbstant messenger, and i dont want to delete mkicrosoft packages blindly(done that before and it didnt go well).

Ta,
mick.

[Shady]

it is part of windows live. ccleaner will do a better job of uninstalling it that microsoft

[dasteph]

...........G'tanga my friends, everytime i switch my machine on and boot through win 7, i now get instant messenger starting up and lurking in my taskbar. i didnt install it, or request it,. so how do i remove it, permanently?
i have looked for it, but theres niothing that sticks out saying inbstant messenger, and i dont want to delete mkicrosoft packages blindly(done that before and it didnt go well).

Ta,
mick.

use msconfig/start up tab and untick the box next to messenger that will stop it loading at start up.

[Cod3waX]

msconfig

turn it off from starting up in boot option

[wetdog]

cheers guys.

i ran ccleaner and it didnt work, ran msconfig and there a lot of things ticked, i presume some of them are not needed and using up memory or slowing things down.
which, if any should be removed, or if quicker shoud be left?
i was planning to go ubuntu, but i do like this win 7, so looking like i'll be staying here.

mick.

[Shady]

remove them all on msconfig.. except ur av

[wetdog]

remove them all on msconfig.. except ur av

what everything in services and or startup?

except for av......audio and video files?

mick.

[Shady]

av = antivirus, everything else untick
this will NOT uninstall messnger, just stop it from starting until you tell it to, and when you DO start it, it will put itself back in the startup list

[dasteph]

anything connected with programes you can untick that you do not want to run on start up, anti virus you would leave alone also services.

[Lainie]

cant u uninstall it through programmes options in the control panel?

[Shady]

you CAN, but windows is crap at uninstalling tbh, thats why most people use third party programmes such as cccleaner

[dasteph]

if you also wanted to speed up the boot time while in msconfig and you have a milticore prosseser use the boot tab/advanced options there you can enable all the cores to be used in the boot up with a drop down box giving the option on how many cores to use and clicking on apply

[johnboy1974]

mick just uncheck it from the start up menu thats the best way.

[Shady]

its NOT the best way seeing as tho he wants rid COMPLETELY