Here's another KB for out­look express users
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=327390

how to unin­stall sap 4.6b and SQL ( It is not in the list of Add/Remove program)

daniel

Thanks for that — it worked a treat. MSMSGS.EXE was caus­ing my Out­look Express in XP to work for a very long time before open­ing up. Now it's quick as a flash again.

Thanks! Great jiffy way to unin­stall MSN! Very grate­ful. Cheers!

Please be me informed, How could i remove list of signed up users from MSN signin drop down list.

You rule pal, thanks a lot!

Hi Gau­thier,

That should occur only if you fol­lowed some other steps apart from what I have sug­gested above (e.g., man­u­ally edit­ing your Sysoc.inf file).

Any­way, it is not dif­fi­cult to fix. Microsoft has a KB arti­cle related to MS Office quirks that may help you, or if it doesn't, per­haps this help­ful advice from SPTIMES should be useful?

Let me know how it turns out for you..

–Shanx

free from msn I'd rather have flu thank's for that my pc can breathe clearer now

yes thank-you soooooooooooo much! U didn't save my life but it works! On other 'how to unin­stall msn' from either XP or Win­dows it says to take from your 'Add/Remove pro­grammes' which is a loada ****

cos it aint on there sweeties!

i tried every freakin thing it said. and mes­sen­ger is still here!!!!!

Amanda, some info is use­ful on these occasions:

- Which OS do you use?
 – How did you install MSN Messeg­ner?
 – Did you shut down Out­look, Out­look Express, Mes­sen­ger etc before exe­cut­ing the above com­mand?  — Which ver­sion of MSN Mes­sen­ger do you have installed?

It should be fairly sim­ple to get rid of it when you can share this info.

Shanx

Thank you very much!

It's hard to believe, after all the time I spent try­ing other solu­tions to remove MSN Mes­sen­ger, that it could be that easy when done via your instructions.

The only "prob­lem" I had was that an error mes­sage appeared:

"Error unreg­is­ter­ing OCX 16422"

But the script ran any­way, and Mes­sen­ger seems to be gone… at least its pop­ups no longer appear.

Is that error mes­sage some­thing I should be con­cerned about?

Thanks again,

CJ

Ama­rant, glad you man­aged to unin­stall MSN. Viruses and worms etc are not related to MSN (esp after unin­stalling) and are not on-topic here. Just FYI the num­ber of these mali­cious crap­o­las is increas­ing uni­ver­sally, so you're not alone.

thanks, so much. keep up the good job…

Thanks for delet­ing my msn messenger!!!!!!

worked great! thanks for help­ing me get rid of msn!

how do you erase the user pop up list on msn ? I am run­ning xp and I can't seem to delete the many user names ?

it has been done! Thanks!

Bitchin!

IT WORKED!!Thank you so much for pro­vid­ing this tip (RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\inf\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove

It took me 2 years to find this tool, and 40 sec­onds to finally remove msn messenger !!

Hello,
I got an Advanced INF Install error it says error unreg­is­ter­ing the OCX 16422
Any help would be greatly appre­ci­ated
TIA,
Freddy

Jako, I dont have access to a Win98 machine any­more. Try it and let me know. My feel­ing is it should work.

I've been sit­ting here for an hour try­ing to find a way to remove it — from try­ing the search func­tion, search­ing man­u­ally in all of my fold­ers, to using pro­grams (failed because the file was pro­tected. This was by far the eas­i­est way — thanks SO incred­i­bly much!!

Also got "Error unreg­is­ter­ing OCX…" mes­sage on my XP Pro. How­ever mes­sen­ger seems to be gone. Thanks!
I tried pro­ce­dure rec­om­mended by Microsoft — go to gpedit (Start-Run-gpedit.msc and Set "Do Nt allow win­dows mes­sen­ger to be run" to "Enabled" but it made Out­look Express hang for sev­eral min­utes on open­ing… So I unin­stalled the darn thing and Out­look express is fast again!

both mes­sen­ger 6.0 and an ear­lier ver­sion are on my comp…the prob­lem is that they keep­ing switch­ing back and forth, which is really frus­trat­ing because i only want to use 6.0…any sug­ges­tions? thanks

Tamika, look in the OPTIONS (or SETTINGS) of your mes­sen­ger. There is a set­ting to dis­able this.

i keep try­ing and try­ing to delete this damn thing but i just get the same response over and over again; could not locate INF file '%windir%\inf\msmsgs.inf' pleeeease help me! I am using Win 98 and ver­sion 6.1

would love some help

Thank­ing you!

Unin­stall msn Messenger

You have to edit sysoc.inf (located in /WINDOWS/inf). Under [Com­po­nents] you should see the fol­low­ing line:
msmsgs=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,hide,7. Take the word 'hide' out of the line, and it should look like this:
msmsgs=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,,7. Exit and save.

Go to Add or Remove Pro­grams, and click on Add/Remove Win­dows Com­po­nents. There you should now be able to uncheck the MSN Mes­sen­ger Ser­vice, and by click­ing Next it will uninstall.

WOW, thanks. I finally got msn mes­sen­ger off my sys­tem.…. THANKS THANKS THANKS

i need help with my msn mes­sen­ger because when­ever i go on it my dis­play pic­ture is gone and i dont know how to get it back, can you help me please.

To delete MSN Mes­sen­ger user log on list. (Remove users that have at one time or an other used your com­puter to log on to MSN mes­sen­ger. Sim­ply stop the user­names to pop up auto­mat­i­cally when typ­ing your username.)

Oth­ers than me have this prob­lem, obvi­ously, so even if its off-topic I think the post is fair. I found this "work-around" and it worked for me.

click the Start but­ton -> click Run… -> type con­trol userpasswords2 -> hit Enter or click OK -> click Advanced tab -> select Man­age Pass­words -> delete all Pass­port entries -> click OK/Apply.

That should do it. Then if you want, do the rest…

run MSN Mes­sen­ger -> sign in -> type your pass­port, e-mail address and pass­word -> uncheck the "Sign me in auto­mat­i­cally" box -> save your set­tings and close MSN Messenger.

ShehRuk!

You are kid­ding me, right? Open your eyes and read com­ment #61. That's how you remove email addresses from msn mes­sen­ger login list.…

Don't let med catch you in here again…

Thanks for the instruc­tions to remove MSN mes­sen­ger, that thing is a pain.
–jc

Hello Richard, ShehRuk,

As men­tioned by Jojje in com­ment #61, to delete all the email addresses stored in MSN login, do the fol­low­ing (I shall add this to the main arti­cle as well) –

(1) In Start –> Run, enter:

con­trol userpasswords2

(2) In the "Advanced Tab" look for "Man­age Pass­words", which takes care of all the .Net pass­port pass­words on your machine. You can also change the set­ting to not save any from this point on.

HTH,
Shanx

Well, when I found this tip (which is exactly what I was look­ing for after the new "upgrade" for Out­look Express and MSN, and then found that it actu­ally worked, I thought, I'll have to post about this. Glad to see that you helped all­l­lll these other peo­ple too! HAHA
GG dude! And thanks for the help!

Follow-up on my Win­dows 2000 MSN Mes­sen­ger ques­tion. Appar­ently the fol­low­ing steps do the trick to remove the entire MSN Messenger:

1. Go to Con­trol Panel->Add/Remove Pro­grams and unin­stall MSN Mes­sen­ger.
2. Click on Start->Run and type "%appdata%\Microsoft" (with­out the quotes). This will open a folder. Right click on the MSN Mes­sen­ger folder and delete it.
3. Click on Start->Run and type "Regedit" you will be in the reg­istry. Find the fol­low­ing tag "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MSNMessenger" (No quotes). Remove the entire "MSN­Mes­sen­ger" and all its contents.

As a side­note, the actual chached in email address that pops up auto­mat­i­cally is located inside this MSN­Mes­sen­ger with the key "User.NET Mes­sen­ger Ser­vice", if you would only like to just erase that info and keep the messenger.

This was passed down to me and it worked in my com­puter so I fig­ured I would share the info.

I deleted 2 of 3 accounts that I cre­ated in MSN Mes­sen­ger, but how do you make it so that those deleted accounts don't show up in your friends' con­tact lists??

I have a ques­tion. I added 128mg ram to my com­puter then had to clean boot and now the added ram does not show when I checked my sys­tem .
Any ideas or com­ments? All help is much appre­ci­ated.
Thanks
D Martin

Your help may be in here some where:
1. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=330117
2. http://help.msn.com/EN_US/HelpWindow_msg.asp?INI=Messengerv60XP.ini&H_VER=1.7
3. http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/WinXP/Q_20771473.html

maybe of some help to you.

Hi, i got a real prob­lem i think…

To delete MSN user log on list.

I know that you have to:

"click the Start but­ton -> click Run… -> type con­trol userpasswords2 -> hit Enter or click OK -> click Advanced tab -> select Man­age Pass­words -> delete all Pass­port entries -> click OK/Apply"

Iv tried this so many times, NOTHING hap­pens when i select an adress and press the delete but­ton, the adresses just don't dissapear…!

Does any­one knows whats going on here???

Cause i'm des­per­ate, my adress list is get­ting WAY to big!!!

HELP…!?

Hmmm, cool trick! But when i change it back to nor­mal after doing this (to get my OWN adress and pass­word stored again) all the other adresses re-apear like they never where gone!

while this is great to know, is there any other way to "really" delete the adresses that you want to delete?

And thanks very much for the help you already given!

You're da best !!!!!!!!.. lol
man the auto msn sign in was soo piss­ing me off and there was no way to stop it!!!!!
man thanks
i luv ya ! *mwah*
haha

For Win­dows 98 replace %windir%\inf\ with the path to wher­ever the file msmsgs.inf resides.

On my com­puter:
RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection c:\windows\inf\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove

I got a mes­sage about not find­ing an OCX, but the removal worked.

I ran the above com­mand and it suc­cess­fully stopped/deleted MSN in OE — but now, because I've also got AIM on my com­puter some­how AIM has replaced MSN in OE and so it's still tak­ing for­ever for OE to start work­ing. I always get the 'OE is not respond­ing' report.

Is there a dif­fer­ent com­mand to run to get AIM to stop in OE. I like using AIM sep­a­rately but don't want it to a part of OE and to make OE take for­ever to work every day. I've changed the options so AIM at least doesn't start up every time I open OE but it's the fact that OE takes for­ever to respond that bugs me.

I NEED HEL!HELP HELP HELP!!
I DLETED 6.2 TO GET 7.0 AND REALIZED ITS NOT OUT YET SO I DLETED IT AND TRIED TO DOWNLOAD 6.2 BUT IT WONT LET ME! A BOX KEEPS POPING UP EVEYRTIME I TRY TO SIGN IN SAYING 'GET NEW VERSION TO CONTINURE' SO I CLICK IT AND SING IN AND IT SAYS THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER!
SOMEBODY HELP ME

Skye, not sure why you use "Explorer by Dell­net"? Why not just use a reg­u­lar browser? Oth­er­wise, if for some rea­son you absolutely MUST use their soft­ware then you'd be bet­ter speak­ing with their tech­ni­cians about this quaint requirement!

Hi Davide, do you use some other MSN func­tion­al­ity such as MSN Explorer on your machine? Have you used it in the past? Also, where are these files located on your machine?

Thank you very much sir!!!!!!!!!!!

I need help. I have unin­stalled MSN Mes­sen­ger 6.2 suc­cess­fully but when on the logon screen it still has my pass­port email address (say­ing there's # unread mails). How do I get rid of this? Thanks.

Aidan, it's RunDLL not RunD11. Note the let­ter "L" instead of the num­ber "1". Would be best for you to sim­ply copy the com­mand in the arti­cle above, instead of typ­ing it yourself.

i did what says here, but the mes­sen­ger still works, and it works bad. each time it pops up it says it[s not respond­ing. help please

the msn today, msn alerts, and the games not apear in may msn mes­sen­ger 6.2, please any body help me what to do

diego nov 7 mesage 104
if you like to have the two mes­sen­ger, do not erase de 4.7, i have the two and used 2 mes­sen­ger with two accounts, some peo­ple erased with the com­mand is in the home of the page.

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

if you like to erase is with this command

if you have XP, with the update of SP2, update the win­dows mes­sen­ger, but still de same.

I have win­dows XP with MSN VERSION 6.2 when I logg on a MSN TODAY pop up appears is there any way of get­ting rid of it

Thanks

I have install MSN MESSENGER 7.0 and i can not
unin­stall it. This pro­gram do not stay in mine soft­ware doc­u­ment. Now it do's not work.

So i don't have msn :'(

I've som­body knows how to unin­stall MSN MESSENGER
7.0 send me youre mes­sage on this website

(K)(K)(K) kisssssss sharon (K)(K)(K)

Sharon, try down­load­ing MSN Mes­sen­ger 7 *Beta* from here: http://g.msn.com/1cl9partnerenus/710 (although this tuto­r­ial was about REMOVING the messenger)

Paulie, are you try­ing to erase MSN mess­sen­ger? What OS are you on (Win­dows XP or Home)? Are you able to use MSN mes­sen­ger now, and if so, what ver­sion is it?

how can i unin­stall my msn email address for good

How to delete all the email addresses (.Net pass­port accounts) stored in MSN mes­sen­ger login

i tryed the com­mand but all it did was bring up my user accounts on the actual computer

i need to remove my email adresses ( net pas­port accounts ) stored on my msn login

please help !

Thx for giv­ing instruc­tions that were effe­ciently direct. And a use­ful run com­mand to know.
Thank You

the code it works per­fect. I have msn emoti­cons plus 2.0 and i can not unin­stall it, if some­one has the answer, please, let me know. The code dose not unin­stal emoti­cons plus 2.0

Thanks ^_^

how to removw msn mes­sen­ger under my account(log in under my name) only?I can't unin­stall it coz my wife still want to use it.(log in under her name)

i try to log onto msn mes­sen­ger and it says we cant log u on at the moment and i try after a week the same fing cums up on my com­puter :'( what shall u do!!

Hello Peo­ple,
Is there any­one out there who can please tell me where I can get instruc­tions that some­one new to the inter­net world can under­stand to get msn off my com­puter? It seems about as dif­fi­cult to unin­stall any­thing as it is to shoot this darn thing with­out a gun,(which I haven't got one of).
Any help would be greatly appre­ci­a­trd.
thanks bunches, Patsy, (doxiefeivel).

When i sign in on this com­puter it dont wanna work it wrote invalid pass­word or invalid email. but when i go to another com­puter it work.

hey, try­ing to unin­stall msn mes­sen­ger 6.1 (some how had 6.2 & 6.1, rid 6.2-but 6.1 still here and insists on start­ing up and log­gin me in when­ever i use out­look express), im run­ning win98SE, i tried the above 'start/run/RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\inf\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove, but it says error can­not find INF file '%windir%\inf\msmsgs.inf'
i really want this off my pc & once its gone i wont be using it ever again!
also if any­one knows how to add lit­tle sound clips to startup and shut down, id like to know.
thanks

Ive down­loaded msn 7 (BETA) but i wont msn 6.2 back and it wont let me install it even though i have done the lit­tle thing you paste into run can some­one please help me because i cant stand using the web based msn for much longer

It diesn't work for ver­sion 7.0 beta. Nei­ther does gpedit.msc. It's like a can­cer that keeps com­ing back.……AH! XP Pro SP2

hey i have win 98 run­ning on my com­puter n i have dwn­loaded msn mes­sen­ger 7 BETA n i cant unin­stall it becuz i want to put msn mes­sen­ger 6.2 on. i down­load 6.2 but it wont let me run it bcuz i have the newer veir­sion 7 so it says 2 unistall it from the con­trol panel but its not on the list

please help me

thanx

i installed msn emo­ti­o­cons plus and there s always this reg­is­ter alert say­ing ''regester'' or ''exit''. by clickin both there comes ''kernel32.dll error'' caused by msnapp.
i ''think'' i unin­stalled msn and msn emoti­cons plus but the allert con­tin­ues– even after restart– and my com­puter doesnt prop­erly work.
i dont know if the rea­son is win­dows or a virus( msn emoti­cons plus was an exe file down­loaded from download.com)

can some­body help me? for win­dows ME

hey, does any­body know how to unin­stall msn mes­sen­ger from a hp pavil­ion f1503 com­puter? HELP

PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!

i am a win­dows 98 user and installed msn 7.…..but i hate it and its play­ing up badly.….so i want my old ver­sion 6 back.….but i cant unin­stall 7!!! its like its bugged so it CANT BE uninstalled.…..HELP! SOMEBODY!

A friend of mine told me about this place. I love it. I will rec­om­mend you to all my friends.
See you again next time I surf around.

I am hav­ing a prob­lem with remov­ing MSN Mes­sen­ger — any help would be greatly appre­ci­ated!
Recently, I tried down­load­ing the MSN 6.2 veri­sion and decided I didn't want it. I espe­cially didn't like the fact when the select account user page opened for win­dows XP, it had text say­ing how many mes­sages I had at one of my old email addresses. After unin­stalling MSN, delet­ing the NET pass­port, and EVEN delet­ing the old hot­mail account, when­ever I log on, it still says this email address has unread mes­sages.
How can I remove the "unread mes­sages" text from the account user page? Thanks!

hi,
I have a sis­ter and are inter­net is always on.
We like to stay con­nected to our msn so we don't have to sign off and on…
Is there a way to have two msn mes­sen­gers on one com­puter. That are of up to date qual­ity (mean­ing not a really old msn)
If so, how can i do this? I recently had msn mesen­ger Beta 7 but we unin­stalled it and went back to one of the 6. ver­sions. I don't know if the beta is totally unin­stalled. Help would be grately appreciated!

does any­one know if any msn mes­sen­ger works if your com­puter is on safe mode? the error codes 1601 and 1084 keep show­ing up.

could use some help. we have a shared com­puter in our office and one of the res­i­dent "experts" some how man­aged to knock off net­pass­port.… so need­less to say, we can't log on to retrieve e-mails. we can't fig­ure out how to re-install pass­port and could use some advise on how to go about doing it. we're run­ning win­dows xp.… please help before we boil him in oil. thanx

have windows98 sec­ond addi­tion. cant unin­stall msn mes­sen­ger 6.2 can you help

Right! This is goin to b really con­fusin! N very long to explain! I fink!
Well..! I had msn 6.2 to begin with! it worked fine, then all this, error x bla bla bla stuff cum up! loads ppl had the same prob­lem! Once that was all sorted, msn was workin fine, until i had this pop up sayin i cudnt sign in unles i down­loaded the newest msn 6.2.0205 or somef­ing like that! Since then, id b on msn, and il b chatin away, but then my screen will make a flash, n my com­puter will make this clik noise! n then my hole com­puter is frozen! So i have to restart it! N this prob­lem went on 4 ages! So i unin­stalled 6.2 and fort that if i down­laoded msn7 it wud b all fine! and it was! Till a lit­tle while ago! When it started doin the same freezin stuff as with 6.2!!! so i fort.. il unin­stall it n rein­stall a older ver­sion like msn5!! to c if that worked! But.. i went to unin­stall msn7 from the 'add/remove'' fing! But then it pops up with a messge sayin.. ''this action is only valid for prod­ucts that r cur­rently installed'' i was like proper con­fused!! :S! So i fort id just man­u­ally delte it! From dat reg­istry fingy! i dun that, delted it from my pro­gram files! n then went back to my add remove pro­grams to c if it was stil there, n it was! so i cliked it again! but it stil said d sme mes­sage!! So then i just dwn­loaded msn 7 again!! n it just kept freezin again!! I hav bin getin really angry about this bcoz now i hav to use web mes­sen­ger which to b hon­est.. is SH*T..
My com­puter will b on 4 ages n not freeze, its just wen i sign into msn, it freezes! not like a nor­mal freeze, but flashes black n then goes back to wat was on my screen! it dus it really quikly! but then makes this clik noise as it dus it! So its sumthing to do with msn! ive emailed then but they havnt answered!! n this was sum time last week!! i really need help!!!! how can i get rid of this msn 7 thats in my add remove prgrams?! Its not on my com­puter no where else xcept in there!!
HEEEEEELPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!

spent hours on the phone with dell tech sup­port try­ing to get rid of "mes­sen­ger"
your "run" line at top of page did it.
this bleary eyed old man way up in Maine thanks you from my DOS 1.0 old heart

hi ther
i tried upgrad­ing my msn already 7.0 to the lat­est ver­sion. evry­time i sign it, it starts n then froze. it ends by say­ing not respond­ing. is ther a par­tic­u­lar solu­tion to this. wuld some­body plzzz help me.thnx

It says it cant find this and that the net­work is unavailable

C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\IXP000.TMP\msnmsgs.msi

So I can't unin­stall msn 6.1 nor can I install 7.0 … I dont know what to do … Im not good with computers

i_love_parrots@hotmail.com

How can i erase my login history?

I used Account A to login MSN mes­sen­ger, then logout; then I used Account B to login again, and logout, next time when I open the MSN mes­sen­ger, both Account A and Account B will be shown, i won­der if any­one know how to erase this login history

Hi Lynzie,

Try reduc­ing the length of your pass­word to 8 char­ac­ters. Ver­sion 7.0 of Mes­sen­ger is dri­ving peo­ple nuts because of this, it's undoc­u­mented by Microsoft but it has been known to work.

Mean­while, I rec­om­mend you use Tril­lian, it imports all your MSN users with­out any trou­ble and it a bit less painful to use and upgrade.

Shanx

i would like to know how to log the con­ver­sa­tions i have with my friends online, but i dont know how to do this, can some­one help me please. i have msn mes­sen­ger 4.7 and i havewin­dows xp which for a mat­ter of inter­est i dont like very much

I have the same issue regardin the MSN EMOTICON PLUS REGISTER ALERT
how do i get rid of the pop ups! they are dri­ving me insane!
if gives the mes­sage
'SELECT TO REGISTER, SELECT TO EXIT MSN MESSENGER AND UNINSTALL MSN EMOTICONS PLUS!'
there is no option and it does not unin­stall! what can i do? please please please some one try and work this out…going mad!

In order to solve the unin­stall prob­lem with emoti­cons plus sw you have to do:
1.- Unin­stall sw using the remove exec of the emoti­cons plus site
2.- reboot in safe mode and delete 2 pro­grams:
c:\windows\winappm.exe
c:\windows\msmapps.exe
3.- Run Ad Adware SE plus to detect crit­i­cal and neg­li­gi­ble file and delete all.
I think with that the prob­lem is solved. If not you have to do the same but also edit the win­dows reg­istry:
1.-Start
2.-Run
3.-Regedit
and delete all the microidea folder you find under win­dows or soft­ware folders.

Does any­one know where to find this "remove exec" on the crappy site of emoti­cons plus, cuz I can't seem to find it …
Ps: I'm pray­ing for a quick solu­tion, cuz I'm about to throw my com­puter out of the win­dow…
SOS!!!! ;o)

Hihi… Got the wrong site…
But thanx for the quick answer! Ur the best! ;o)
Bye!

Mano­lis, is the exact error mes­sage this one:

—-
Sorry, we were unable to sign you in to the .NET Mes­sen­ger Ser­vice at this time. Please try again later. 80072ee7
—-

I guess this is mostly because your fire­wall does not allow MSN Mes­sen­ger to access the Inter­net. If you have installed a new ver­sion of MSN Mes­sen­ger, then make sure MSN Mes­sen­ger is allowed access in your fire­wall rules.

Alter­na­tively, check up if their a "proxy server" enabled in MSN Mes­sen­ger and you do not use one. To remove the proxy set­tings, click the "Tools" menu and then "Options…" at your MSN Mes­sen­ger main win­dow. Then in the options screen click "Con­nec­tion" in the list to the left. Next, click the "Advanced Set­tings…" but­ton. You can try and uncheck all check­boxes in this screen to let MSN Mes­sen­ger con­nect through a direct con­nec­tion. If that does not work you can restore the set­tings again by check­ing the boxes you unchecked before.

HTH,
Shashank

Her­man, the entire page, if you read care­fully, talks about MSN mes­sen­ger. Start­ing from the very unequiv­o­cal title.

hey,
ive down­loaded msn mes­sen­ger 7.0 but my comp wont let me use it, keeps say­ing error 8007012e ser­vice is unavail­able blah blah blah.There is noth­ing wrong with my inter­net con­nec­tion. I think it may be because my comp is to old (ive got win­dows 98 and a Dell Lat­i­tude laptop…thats all i know!)ive tried get­ting msn 6.0 back but every­time i install it then go to sign in, it says i MUST upgrade to the newest ver­sion and gives me no option but to down­load msn 7.0. Does any­body know how to fix this, 6.0 was work­ing fine before and i just want it back.
Please if any­one can help me out, it would be awesome

Go to ADD REMOVE PROGRAMS in CONTROL PANEL, then on the left hand side click on ADD REMOVE WINDOWS COMPONENTS. That should have MSN Explorer and MSN Mes­sen­ger listed, you can unin­stall both.

sorry for crowd­ing up this mes­sage board with my mes­sages but after much research I finally got my msn to work!!!! so I will share it with every­one who has the same "sign­ing into MSN mes­sen­ger failed because the ser­vice is tem­porar­ily unavail­able. Please try again later 800b0001" error mes­sage
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open start menu and click RUN. Then indi­vid­u­ally type in the codes below

regsvr32 Softpub.dll

regsvr32 Mssip32.dl

regsvr32 Initpki.dll (this one took about 30 sec­onds so dont worry)

After enter­ing those indi­vid­u­ally it will work!!!

Court­ney,

Try this. Unin­stall MSN 7.0 or 6.0 *entirely* from ADD REMOVE Pro­grams –> Add Remove Win­dows Com­po­nents. Remove any fold­ers your MSN may have cre­ated where your mes­sage logs are stored.

Run RegSeeker (http://snipurl.com/registry2 — this is a zip file of a VERY use­ful pro­gram) to clean up your reg­istry. It's fairly intu­itive but let me know if you need help. PLEASE EXERCISE CAUTION before doing any­thing with the registry.

Once you are cer­tain that there's no trace of MSN Mes­sen­ger on your machine, try installing the 6.0 again.

My sug­ges­tion: for­get about MSN Mes­sen­ger alto­gether and use Tril­lian: http://www.trillian.cc/ — it also sup­ports other mes­sen­ger clients like Yahoo, AOL, ICQ in the same interface.

Den­nis,

Please read other mes­sages on this page before clut­ter­ing up with addi­tional ques­tions that have already been asked before. You may want to look at your MSN's Tools –> Options, or wher­ever the con­fig­u­ra­tion is, there's a very self-evident option for dis­abling auto sign in at startup.

Scott, I'm guess­ing you're using a fire­wall and MSN is not allowed to pass through. Please enable MSN to con­nect to the net and it should work. Also take a look at com­ment 166 above.

Amy, Den­nis, per­haps you can use intruc­tions above to dis­able pass­word stor­age alto­gether and see if that helps? Other than that, I rec­om­mend using Tril­lian or some such com­mon inter­face to con­nect to MSN though I won­der if this is a use­ful suggestion.

i seem to have a prob­lem loging in my msn. it mostly says "sorry we can not log u in at this time please try again later"(and then some num­bers) i don't really know what to do can u help me?? well just e-mail me at: lorabalaag2@hotmail.com, thank you!! lora

hey…i dont have a clue how to unin­stall msn to get back to msn 7.0.. how do you use this com­mand doadvpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\inf\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove

were do you have to put it for it to unin­stal? please help

Thank you for your tool to remove msnmsgs.msi, I have found a whole new world!

There are some peo­ple here who tried to hit the 'remove' but­ton, but none of the pass­words were removed. Here is the Win­dows XP Pro solu­tion (it might also work on XP Home, not sure about that)

Go to C:\Documents and Settings\****\Application Data\Microsoft\Credentials (**** = the name of the admin­is­tra­tor, or the user­name which you want to delete the .NET/MSN pass­words from)

And delete the Cre­den­tials folder. After you delete this direc­tory, reboot your com­puter, and away they are.

This will NOT delete win­dows (log-in)passwords, only the .NET/MSN passwords.

If you do not want to do this every time after you logged in on msn for exam­ple. Go to

–> start
–> con­trol panel
–> per­for­mance and main­te­nance
–> admin­is­tra­tive tools
–> local secu­rity pol­icy
–> local pol­icy
–> secu­rity options

In the list to your right, find the Net­work Acces: Do not allow stor­age of cre­den­tials or .NET pass­ports for net­work authentication

Rightclick it, go to the options/settings of it. and click enable.
Now Win­dows will not store your .NET/MSN pass­words again.

I don't have the eng­lish ver­sion of Win­dows, but some­one with the eng­lish ver­sion helped me with it. So things might be named slightly dif­fer­ent, but i gues it won't be hard to find.

Good Luck

The solution.…..I'm so happy!!

Delete msnapps.exe and msnappm.exe in the Save Modus (F8) and then…the Alerts are gone.……I'm Sooooo Happyy!!

I am pos­i­tive that this solu­tion has been writ­ten sev­eral times, but not as detailed, this is a step, by step highly detailed ver­sion for every1 who needs it troughly explained.

If you want to MSN Mes­sen­ger once and for all, just do the fol­low­ing reg­istry edit: Click on Start and select Run; Type Regedit in the text box and click OK or press the Enter key. Next, click on the Plus Sign next to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.

Now click on the plus next to Soft­ware, then Poli­cies, and finally on Microsoft. With Microsoft Folder high­lighted, click on Edit on the menu bar at the top of the Reg­istry Edi­tor win­dow and select New, then Key. Type "Mes­sen­ger" (with­out the quotes) and press the Enter key.

With Mes­sen­ger selected (high­lighted) click Edit again, and click New and then Key. Type "Client" (again with­out quotes) and click OK. The Client key should nest below the Mes­sen­ger key. With the Client key high­lighted, click Edit again and this time click DWORD value. Fol­low­ing that, type "Pre­ven­tRun" (no quotes) for this value and press the Enter key. A new item will appear on the right side of the screen with the name Pre­ven­tRun and the type REG_WORD. Right-click Pre­ven­tRun and select Mod­ify from the con­text menu.

In the Value Data field in the box that opens, change the exist­ing "0" to a "1' (again, no quotes) and click OK. Now close the Reg­istry Edi­tor by click­ing on the X in the upper right cor­ner of the Reg­istry Edi­tor win­dow. Restart the com­puter for the changes to take effect. PS: This solu­tion came from the ?Lessons? sec­tion of http://www.jefflevy.com. "

My MSN keeps sign­ing me out, and it all of a sud­den deleted all my dis­play pic­tures which I dont have saved on my com­puter. What do I do to get them back and how do I stop msn from sign­ing me out?

yeah you both can be on…except one of you have to be on MSN Mes­sen­ger and one will have to be on win­dows base ver­sion called Win­dows Mes­sen­ger. search the net for it. if you cant find it, you can get on a web site that has a web ver­sion of MSN called E-messenger. the site for it is http://www.e-messenger.net.

It is very urgent kindly get me some solu­tions for the prob­lem immediately

I am cur­rently run­ning Win­dows 98 and on dial up …11.4 GB free and 256 MB…Version 7 on msn…QUESTION…does any one know why MSN is freez­ing when more than once per­son talks to me at a time and how to solve the problem?

A good pro­gram to get into your win­dows xp machine is ERD com­man­der, it has a lock smith pro­gram that will allow you to change the pass­word of the account so you can log in. It's just a bootable cd, there's no real chal­lenge with it.. hope it helps you.

Shiela, Win­dows 98's time is up. I am sur­prised it is only giv­ing you one prob­lem. I would think about upgrad­ing to XP.

Char­maine, this arti­cle is about MSN mes­sen­ger. You seem to be talk­ing about admin­is­tra­tor pass­word for Win­dows XP itself. You'll find more help else­where on this site.

JTB, thanks for the info.

J Witt, you can delete the log files from what­ever loca­tion you are sav­ing your chat logs. Check in "Options" where you store them.

i cant get rid of msn con­tent plus.i have tried everything.a pop up keeps ask­ing me to regester.help

Ketch, if you can, unin­stall both MSN ver­sions, and use some­thing like Tril­lian to access all your instant mes­sen­ger accounts like msn, yahoo, icq, aol, irc — all in one inter­face. It's a non-intrusive soft­ware, and very decent looking.

I keep get­ting Error Startin Pro­gram
The MSNAPPAU.EXE file is linked to miss­ing export ADVAP32.DLL. Con­verted Sting Secu­rity Descrip­tor to Secu­rity DescriptorW

Can you Help

I have installed the trial ver­sion of msn con­tent plus and then I deleted every­thing but the pop reg­istry keeps com­ing up say­ing the trail period is over so I need to remove every­thing or pay..I thought I had removed every­thing. This pop up comes up con­tin­u­ally and dri­ves a per­son nuts as well as it is affect­ing msn mes­sen­ger as I can't open it even though I am signed in. Please help!

By the way Shas­shank, I down­load the remove exe from one of your postings..the one for msncon­tent plus emo­tions but it didn't work for this par­tic­u­lar prob­lem so I am hop­ing that you have another solu­tion and can help me out of this maddness. By the way, I don't know my way around my com­puter very well but hope­fully you have an easy solu­tions. Thank you in advance for your help! Please, do help!