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    June 21

    Windows Messenger versus... Windows Messenger?

    Windows Live Messenger is out of beta! Unfortunately, even after upgrading I've still got the old and new product fighting for control of my session. Windows Live Messenger will complain that I've logged in somewhere else, then up'll pop Windows Messenger with something. D'oh!

    Both msmsgs.exe and msnmsgr.exe are running, the latter of which is Windows Live Messenger.

    Some quick searching reveals a solution from users at Annoyances.org:

    RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove

    According to The Register, there's also a handy PreventRun registry value I can add just in case some future hotfix re-installs Messenger.

    9:50 AM | Blog it | Gripes

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