Re: How to prevent Messenger from starting when Outlook Express is launched?

From: cornholio (cornholio808@yahoo.com)
Date: 10/01/02 

From: "cornholio" <cornholio808@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 17:38:22 +0800

Yes I've disabled the contacts pane by unchecking it in View->Layout but
Messenger still launches together with OE! Now it's really starting to piss
me off...

"Don Burnette" <d.burnette@clothes.comcast.net> wrote in message
news:eeaDCoPaCHA.2080@tkmsftngp09...
> Make sure you have disabled the contacts pane in OE, if it is set to open
it
> automatically launches messenger.
>
> Don Burnette
>
> cornholio wrote:
> > I've removed Messenger from the startup (through the registry, Run).
> > but whenever I launch Outlook Express it launches Messenger too AND
> > it puts itself back in the startup. I never use Messenger, nor do I
> > need it, is there a way to prevent it from launching with Outlook?
>
>

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