It seems that a lot of people are
interested in removing Windows Messenger for some reason, though I strongly
recommend against this: In Windows XP, Windows Messenger will be the hub of
your connection to the .NET world, and now that this feature is part of
Windows, I think we're going to see a lot of .NET Passport-enabled Web
sites appearing as well. But if you can't stand the little app, there are a
couple of ways to get rid of it, and ensure that it doesn't pop up every time
you boot into XP. The best way simply utilizes the previous tip:
If you'd like Windows Messenger to
show up in the list of programs you can add and remove from Windows,
navigate to C:\WINDOWS\inf and open sysoc.inf (see the previous
tip for more information about this file). You'll see a line that reads:
msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,hide,7
Change this to the following and
Windows Messenger will appear in Add or Remove Programs, then Add/Remove
Windows Components, then , and you can remove it for good:
msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,7
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