re: Windows Messenger Thursday, November 22, 2001 at 7:32 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Carl D (4151 messages posted) hi Bob, actually this subject & it's solutions have come up in the Forum previously but here it is anyway... Open Notepad, click File - click Open - in File Name enter C:\WINDOWS\inf\sysoc.inf - click Open - click Edit - click Replace - in Find What enter hide - in Replace With leave blank - click Replace All - click File - click Save then exit, you'll then notice Windows Messenger (and several other programs) now appear in the Add/Remove Windows Components of Add/Remove Programs. I think someone said previously that you might have to go into folder options & get Windows to show hidden files & folders to do this but I've never had to do that. Good luck! Carl. On Thursday, November 22, 2001 at 6:42 pm, Bob wrote: >Hi does anyone know how to disable Windows Messenger in Windows XP? >Thanks a lot >Bob Written in response to: Windows Messenger (Bobrobok: Thursday, November 22, 2001 at 6:42 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Windows Messenger (Bobrobok: Thu, Nov 22, 2001, 6:42 pm) re: Windows Messenger (Carl D: Thu, Nov 22, 2001, 7:32 pm) re: Windows Messenger (Mark: Fri, Nov 23, 2001, 3:45 pm) re: Windows Messenger (Nick: Thu, Jan 10, 2002, 3:39 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum