Ok, now some of you more computer-savvy users may have already discovered this yourself, but if not..I'm gonna help ya out. It's my good dead of the year,lol.



I hate those ******* "MESSENGER SERVICE" gray popups that come up when your on the net and using WindowsXP or 2000....



..and this is how you get rid of them...



Click Start

Scroll to programs..click programs...

Scroll to accessories..click accessories..

Scroll til you see "command prompt" ...click that...

this will then open your command prompt(DOS lookalike)

now type NET STOP MESSENGER and hit return(enter)

what you typed should have looked like this:

C:\NET STOP MESSENGER



Once the command has executed you should see this:

C:\NET STOP MESSENGER

The messenger sevice is stopping.

The messenger service was stopped successfully.





Now you can close you command prompt window and live happy ever after w/out GAY ASS ******* GRAY MESSENGER SERVICE POPUPS! GOD I HATE THEM.



There..sorry, easy enough huh?



BTW, anybody know of Web Developer/Web Master/Cold fusion developer or anything in between position available on the east coast, LET ME KNOW..I'm in need of a new job https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...#>/biggrin.png

Oh yea...if anybody needs like illustrations of this, let me know..I'M BORED!! https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/smile.png

man, for real, i love you, ive been trying to figure out how to stop that thing forever.

Access is denied.

If your access is denied, its more then likely because you don't have administrative liberties. If your at work, can't help ya..but if your at home, make sure your logged into windows as the administrator, or the main user(admin,lol)...other then that, can't help ya..

Thanks!



I did this last year, but our system admin reloaded Windows and I'd forgotten how to do it! https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/bigok.gif

no admin rights on my comp https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub..._DIR#>/sad.png

i love you

Thank you, thank you https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...1047683894.gif

There's another way to do it, which I did, but your way is easier, so you win! https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...#>/biggrin.png

Or you can get a firewall and have it auto-block the messages, along with all the other trojan horses and port scans. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...DIR#>/wink.png

Yea..firewalls would work too, but the average user doesn't want/or know how to go through and set that up..etc.





All this love in the air,lol..sure is spring. I just figured I'd share the wealth, cuz god those ******* things annoy the hell out of me...its like, you leave your computer for 10minutes to get something to eat..come back, bam..like 20 of 'em...

what gray messenger service pop-ups are u talking about? pic if possible

I just turned them back on..some gimme a sec til one pops up..

https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...#>/biggrin.png Thanks for the tip just used it.

Mine says that the messenger hasnt started...most likely meaning ive already disabled it...COOL IM AWESOME!

bart3lz...the messenger service boxes look like this:





and yea..if it says it hasnt started, you already have the service disabled and shouldn't have been getting the boxes to begin with..

i've never had one throughout my hole time of owning a computer