Damn Windows Messenger?

[bhxtyrant]

Ah ok so it's not just me,man this sucks,right now i have been waiting for damn 5 minutes for outlook express to launch and my taskbar is frozen.I just got done reinstalling all this crap and now the thing wants to screw up

[Reverend]

Go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services
Scroll down the menu and right click Messenger, then click the Stop button.
Change the Startup type to disabled and click apply.

Open Outlook Express
Go to Tools > Options. On the General tab uncheck "automatically logon to Windows Messenger." Click OK.

How to prevent Windows Messenger from running on a Windows XP-based computer

[bhxtyrant]

Go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services
Scroll down the menu and right click Messenger, then click the Stop button.
Change the Startup type to disabled and click apply.

Open Outlook Express
Go to Tools > Options. On the General tab uncheck "automatically logon to Windows Messenger." Click OK.

How to prevent Windows Messenger from running on a Windows XP-based computer

Thats the thing,I have already done both of these things when i first installed the fresh copy of XP,I checked again yesterday and they are already disabled yet they still show up in Task Manager as egghead said above.

[GimieGimieGimie]

Thats the thing,I have already done both of these things when i first installed the fresh copy of XP,I checked again yesterday and they are already disabled yet they still show up in Task Manager as egghead said above.

Yo Bhxtyrant, have you tried what i suggested?