It probably doesn't surprise you that people sell programs for something that takes a minute to fix just because Microsoft left the port open since NT came out.

There's a lovely how to here: http://www.updatexp.com/destroyads.html on how to remove the problem and a little background about it all. In the interests of assurance, I'll just quote the instructions in case we ever lose it since it wasn't the easiest thing to find.

For Windows XP and 2000

I haven't used MSN Messenger for so long now, so I actually missed this 'pop-up' issue entirely. Does it also happen on these OS' or is this just an XP/2000 issue?

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Just wanted to thank you Rob, this is the second time I had to stop this Messenger Service popup.

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