MSN Instant Messenger magically appears in Systray

[Wayward Clam]

Does anybody else have this happen?

MSN Instant Messenger is installed in a machine I share at work, and any time I go to an MSN site (example: Hotmail) it appears in the System Tray by itself. I have to manually shut it off again because I don't want all kinds of extra crap running in the background. Even if I do this, if I go back to an MSN site, it appears again!

Anybody know of a simple way to prevent this happening? I can't uninstall it, unfortunately...

[confus-ed]

Indeed I do.

So tell me as well.

I've found the reg key that starts it, but everytime I start Internet explorer it just puts it back!

[Raven]

why cant you uninstall it wayward clam??

[Wayward Clam]

[quote]Originally posted by Raven:
<strong>why cant you uninstall it wayward clam??</strong><hr></blockquote>

Two reasons: #1 it's not my machine, and #2 it has Deep Freeze on it, which rewrites the hard drive back to a default image every time it is rebooted. (So also, any solution that would require the machine to be restarted would be useless anyways.)

[Stalemate]

Could it be activated by ActiveX commands?

If it's launched by other Microsoft products...

Also, try disabling the Java under the Microsoft VM options in Advanced in Internet Options.

I just hate it when my machine starts doing things without my approval too

[eddie5659]

Hiya

Have you disabled it in the MSCONFIG via RUN? You say you've found the registry entry. That needs to ne removed as well as the startup settings.

If you're on Win2000, this does not have MSCONFIG. However, downloading this and installing it gives you this function.

<a href="http://www.insideproject.com/guides/showguide.cfm?guideid=31" target="_blank">http://www.insideproject.com/guides/showguide.cfm?guideid=31</a>

Regards

eddie