Ryan Solberg from Abbotsford, British Columbia writes:

Hey it’s me again. The HP notebook specialist(Actually now former). I have an answer on how to remove Windows Messenger. I’ve been doing this since Windows Messenger showed up. Before you install MSN, you open up notepad and copy and paste the following code;

 @echo off
 RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\inf\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove
 @echo REGEDIT4>%TMP%\RemoveMsgr.reg
 @echo.>>%TMP%\RemoveMsgr.reg
 @echo [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express]>>%TMP%\RemoveMsgr.reg
 @echo "Hide Messenger"=dword:00000002>>%TMP%\RemoveMsgr.reg
 @echo.>>%TMP%\RemoveMsgr.reg
 regedit /s %TMP%\RemoveMsgr.reg

save it as rmwinmsg.txt or anyname then close notepad and rename the extension of that txt file to bat(rmwinmsg.bat) then run the batch file by double clicking on it. This will completely remove Windows Messenger from your computer.

If you want to install MSN Messenger instead, go ahead, you’ll never see windows messenger again.