[Windows Live Messenger: Prevent from Starting When Windows Starts]

colinito · 12th June 2009

Hello Everyone!

I hope this is posted in the correct place.

I recently had a problem solved in this forum and I was so impressed that I have come back to solve one that I believe is a bit more simple!

I have Windows Live Messenger. It opens at startup.

I have been to, I believe, all the folders containing a 'startup programme/file and had no success in stopping it from starting automatically.

I have even gone to Run/msconfig/startup and taken the tick/check off next to it's name. However it keeps coming back at startup.

I can find no "control" in the options at the top of the messenger that allow me to stop it running at startup.

It does not cause me any inconvenience, but it is not required all the time and I would like the option to open it when I wish to.

I also have Yahoo messenger and that only opens when I click it.

I have W.XP Prof + SP3

I have just recently gone to a wireless internet provider through a modem and have a TCP IP address. I have the internet(ADSL), free national calls and the phone line from my provider.)
The Internet signal is "Low" and occasionally cuts out, but it is faster that the one I have just finished with which was connected by cable.

(If there is anyway that I can increase the Low signal from my modem/Internet connection, I would be grateful to know how - but I suspect that it is something that I am not able to do, and is due to the location of my computer from the wifi router.)

If any more detail is needed, please let me know.

Thanks for looking at this

Colinito

**PeteC** · 12th June 2009

Try ....

Windows Live Messenger: Prevent from Starting When Windows Starts

A more expansive title, please - edited

colinito · 12th June 2009

Pete C,

Thank you for that. I note it and will write the title more fully if there is a next time.

Colinito

Marty525 · 12th June 2009

Try looking in services (control panel - administrative tools - services) for windows live and change it from automatic to manual. Not sure if it is listed in services or not.

**Rockster2U** · 12th June 2009

Just open it up and go to options and take the checkmark out of start when windows starts.

colinito · 12th June 2009

Marty 525,

Thanks for your advice - however, I was not able to find it in that location. There wasd a "Messenger" but when highlighted, it stated that it was not related to Windows Messenger.
There were many other items marked Windows x,x,x. But no windows live messenger.

Rockster 2 U,

Thank you for your advice.

I followed your instructions and it has worked. Windows Live Messenger does not now open at startup.

It was so easy, but probably because I'm well past my sell-by-date, I just didn't know about that.

Your advice has been recorded and added to my increasingly large file of Computer Help.

Grateful thanks

Would you now close this thread please.

Colinito.

**PeteC** · 12th June 2009

Threads are closed automatically after a specified time period.

BTW the URL I posted pointed to that solution

Did you read it ??

colinito · 12th June 2009

Pete C,

OOPS! No, I thought that you had just posted what I should have had as a title, I didn't realise it was an URL. I have just come back from looking at it - sorry, and thank you.
I have copied the link and will add it to my file.

Colinito

**PeteC** · 12th June 2009

No problem