I Just Uninstalled Windows Messenger...

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…and I feel fine.

      • Long story short: lately (last month or so) I have had the problem of my cable net connection running rather sluggish. I had disabled WinMess when I installed WinXP Home originally, but apparently SP2 re-enables it, and also enables it to re-enable itself is you try to dis-able it, because I tried disabling it and it would only re-enable itself upon next boot. It took a couple reboots to do that, because WinMess would not respond to controls, but the task manager showed it at 99% CPU usage. So I looked online, found instructions for-
  1. forcing it to list as a regular Windows component (which it does not normally do), and then
  2. uninstalled the fucker.
    …And it seems to be gone now, gone for good, no “msmsgs.exe” in the task manager at all anymore, and the WHOLE COMPUTER runs faster, at everything. “System Idle Process” is now the only thing normally at 99%.

I don’t know what causes it to go haywire, but something did, because for a long time it worked just fine, it caused no problems at all. But I have Norton and do spyware scans at least once a month or so, none of them found anything. -And this could have gone in MPSIMS or IMHO maybe, except for the harsh language, that I haven’t gotten to yet:
MS MESSAGES SUCKS FESTERING HORSECOCK!!!
-ahhhh, I feel so much better.
…If you have it enabled and don’t use it, I heartily suggest you try revealing it and uninstalling it (it’s a Windows component, not an application, check the right list!) If you find that you need it or it makes no difference, you can always go back to the Windows Components manager and re-install it at any time you want.
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Do you mind posting a link to instructions?

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      • This is the page that says how to get it to show up as a regular Windows component, which then lets you uninstall it: http://www.petri.co.il/uninstall_windows_messenger_in_windows_xp.htm
        Note that there is a button for installed applications in the “Add/Remove Programs” panel, and also a button for Windows Components. It lists in the Components list, not the Applications list.
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  • There is another page on this same site that says how to only disable it, but that did not work for me. There’s at least four ways that it can be started automatically, but uninstalling it covers them all.
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