Comments on: HOWTO: Stop Windows Live Messenger (MSN) Starting Automatically with Windows

By: Taha Afzal

Taha Afzal — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:28:14 +0000

Your website is very good and ii also helped me a lot from stopping msn messenger from opening by itself. Hope you improve and succeed more.
Thanks for your help.

Regards,
Taha Afzal

By: Ward Ricker

Ward Ricker — Sun, 08 May 2011 21:28:05 +0000

Ahh, yes, msconfig — now I remember. Thank you. I did as you said and it worked — Messenger didn’t start up this time. Thanks Rosco.

By: Rosco

Rosco — Thu, 05 May 2011 05:26:11 +0000

Hi Ward,
Yes, by launching messenger for the first time it sets some parameter to make it launch for ever more.

Here’s my suggestion –

Click Start > type msconfig > hit Enter > Click Startup tab and locate the Messenger service. Remove the check and exit msconfig. Reboot.

Let me know how you get on.

By: Ward

Ward — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 04:18:33 +0000

I have this problem on my Windows 7 computer. There is a problem here. When I bring up Messenger there are no menus; there is a sign-in form. I assume I have to sign in in order to get to the main window/menus. That is where the problem lies: I have never used this thing, so I do not have a Messenger account! How can a person get this thing off his/her computer if he/she doesn’t have a messenger account? (In case this matters, I didn’t have a problem with this until I was using my voice dictation program one day and the computer/program apparently misinterpreted something I dictated, and that was when Messenger first appeared.)