Message Service Pop Ups
Rue
Join Date: 2002-10-21 Member: 1564Members
Join Date: 2002-10-21 Member: 1564Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">help D:</div> randomly when i play games, or even if im browsing the web i get small pop-ups apearing on the screen usualy for porn sites, there little grey boxes. The problem is if im in comm mode i cant click or NS crashes and if i ctrl-tab i loos sound, and esc dont work.
Iv used the latest version of IE and ad-aware to c if i can remove it but to no avail. My sister also gets these pop-ups shes running XP on her laptop. The only thing I think it might be is kazaa lite so if anyone uses it and u have the same problem plz tell me how to stop it
cheers
Iv used the latest version of IE and ad-aware to c if i can remove it but to no avail. My sister also gets these pop-ups shes running XP on her laptop. The only thing I think it might be is kazaa lite so if anyone uses it and u have the same problem plz tell me how to stop it
cheers
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<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><Abe>: message from than some IP
<John>: disable the messenger service
<Abe>: telling me to go to stoppopups.com
<John>: hahaha
<John>: what IP?
<Abe>: duno i closed it
<John>: go into control panel
<Abe>: dont worry itll come up again
<Abe>: ASDHGEFAH
<John>: go into adminstrative tools
<John>: go into services
<John>: disable the "messenger" service
<Abe>: i removed MSN messanger stuff
<John>: it's not the same
<John>: messenger is a service
<John>: msn messenger is an app
<John>: two different things
<Abe>: well WTH how did that pos geti n there<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I think doing the above fixed my friend's problem.
(names have been changed, and text censored for these forums)
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><Abe>: message from than some IP
<John>: disable the messenger service
<Abe>: telling me to go to stoppopups.com
<John>: hahaha
<John>: what IP?
<Abe>: duno i closed it
<John>: go into control panel
<Abe>: dont worry itll come up again
<Abe>: ASDHGEFAH
<John>: go into adminstrative tools
<John>: go into services
<John>: disable the "messenger" service
<Abe>: i removed MSN messanger stuff
<John>: it's not the same
<John>: messenger is a service
<John>: msn messenger is an app
<John>: two different things
<Abe>: well WTH how did that pos geti n there<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I think doing the above fixed my friend's problem.
(names have been changed, and text censored for these forums) <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I've had the exact same problem.. and I'll be glad to help you get rid of it <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
Yup, MSN and messanger is two different things.. the lovely thing about messanger is it's built into every Win XP/2000 system.. a lovely adition that we all wanted /sarcasm =/
To get rid of it simply do this
1 Open Control Panel
2 Open Administrative Tools
3 Open Services
4 Scroll down to Messanger
5 Disable it!!!!!!!!!
6 Feel the lovely power of NEVER SEEING THOSE freaking THINGS EVER AGAIN!!!
Glad to be of assistance <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
<a href='http://www.readyroom.org/perfgde_1.html' target='_blank'>Readyroom.org Windows 2000/Xp Tuning Guide</a>
The reason that messenger service is on by default in Windows 2000 and XP pro is because those are business OS', and that service is often used heavily in a business environment. Your PC has no way to know it was installed in your living room instead of a cubicle. Just to spike the rhetoric...
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EDIT-Errr how do we handle this for Windows XP Home edition? Home doesn't contain adminastrative tools.
2. Enter 'services.msc' and click 'ok'.
3. Select the Alerter service and set it to 'manual', then click 'stop'.
4. Select the Messenger service and set it to 'manual', then click 'stop'.
Unless you are truly sure, you should never set a service to 'disabled'. If you do that to teh wrong service you can prevent your PC from booting correctly. Always set to 'manual' when in doubt.
(these steps above apply to all versions of XP as well as Win2000).