Marketers are now using use the Messenger Service to display ads on user systems—just another annoyance most of us can do without. The good news is that you have a couple of options available for disabling the service and avoiding the problems this user encountered.
Make the popups stop User Mike Percival reported that after installing WinXP Professional, he started seeing unsavory ads in pop-up windows.
Osborne stated that the intended purpose of the service was to allow admins to send instant messages to their users instead of using e-mail. It's a useful tool for alerting users about network outages due to maintenance or other issues. One way to eliminate the pop-up messages, Osborne stated, is to block port Percival also found his own instructions for disabling the service. The caveat is that this prevents alerts from being sent to networked computers, but for home users, there's no reason not to turn it off.
Open up the registry editor — go to Run, type regedit and click OK. Set the value to 0 to disable ballontips, and set it back to 1 to enable balloontips. This hack disables most balloontips. In order to eliminate all popups, some more work is required.
In each of the following locations, change the values to 0 to disable balloontips. If anything goes wrong, restore the registry file that you had explored before and settings will be restored. Then find Messenger within the list of programs. Right click it and choose Properties. In the Start Search box, type Windows Update. Select Windows Update from the program list.
If there are updates available for installation, select Install Updates. If not, select Check for Updates. Ensure that you install the latest version of Windows Live Essentials on your computer before continuing. Under Programs , select Uninstall a Program. Click Uninstall to completely remove Windows Live Messenger from your computer. Founder of Help Desk Geek and managing editor.
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