Re: OT: windoze woes and full rant mode is on

Michael Mattias wrote:
I hate the MSN Messenger icon in my system tray...

I opened it, hit options, an unchecked "Start Windows Messenger when Windows starts."


Then you are indeed fortunate. There was no such option on the version of MS Messenger that began appearing in my system tray. I looked everywhere. And I suspect that if it were always that easy then there would not have been two different tricks (including a registry hack) to disabling it published in PC Magazine.

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