Re: Messenger Pop-ups

From: Shenan T. Stanley (newshelper_at_hushmail.com)
Date: 06/30/03


Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 00:06:52 -0500


mj <> wrote:
> This crap was driving me crazy. I searched "messenger pop-
> ups" and found several purported cures for free. I tried
> one of them and it worked, but I can't remember what it
> was called. You can enter START, at RUN type in
> messenger.msc. Scroll to Messenger. Right click. Select
> Properties, Disabled, Stop. This is supposed to solve the
> problem. I did this out of curiosity and found that the
> free software must have already established these settings.
> Those Messengerblock guys are aholes. I had a few canned
> scatalogical Emails I spammed them with on the pretext of
> buying their software.

Advice on Popups and their elimination:

http://www.fracas.net/newsgroups/generaladvice.html#popups
or
http://tinyurl.com/el9s

You may want to look over the whole page.

-- 
Shenan Stanley
"Just trying to help"


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