Have been using my wife's laptop, which runs Vista Home Premium.

Windows Messenger keeps opening seemingly automatically. How do I suppress it? Can I uninstall this application, without interfering with other applications??

Any help will be much appreciated.

tools>options>sign in>untick automatically run WLM when i log onto windows

does your wife use it? you can uninstall it but i don't know if any of the functionality is linked to hotmail

hth
tom

in the run box type msconfig
then under the startup tab uncheck messenger

this i think will stop it running at startup but i think everytime you start messenger manually it will recheck the box.

best thing is to uncheck it and use trillian instead

Thank you both, for this feedback. Will check it out pronto.

HijackThis will also stop it and a lot of the other startup rubbish

i had that problem too lol. it would sign me in every time i put the pc on, but couldn't close it to stop it signing in automatically. well annoying.

click sign out on WM (once its signed in) then 'sign in with different account' put a wrong password in and tell it remember you. thats the only way i could find to stop mine