Windows 7 – Prevent Live Messenger from Opening at Start Up

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I have been setting up a new Microsoft Windows 7 computer for my father. The annoyance of Live Messenger continues to live in all the windows versions. Here is how to prevent Microsoft Live Messenger from running and opening every time you restart your computer.


As long as Microsoft Messenger has existed, people have wanted it to go away. Windows 7 is no different. Here is how to prevent it from opening when you computer first boots up:

1. Click the Blue Circle Question Mark button on the right side of Live Messenger

2. Click Show the menu bar

3. From the menu, select Tools and then Options

4. Click Sign In

5. Unselect the checkbox with Automatically run Windows Live Messenger when I log on to Windows

6. Click OK and close out Live Messenger to finish.

 

7 Comments -


  1. Anonymous said on December 9, 2009

    Can you still just press Alt to bring up the menu bar?

  2. Name said on December 31, 2009

    Awesome! Thanks so much. Live Messenger appearing was so annoying.

  3. Anonymous said on February 23, 2010

    Though, every time you remove Live Messenger from the startup menu using msconfig, it still somehow adds itself to the startup list as soon as you open Live Messenger again. Does this fix it?

  4. Anonymous said on May 8, 2010

    Thank you for this posting. One of the most irritating “features” of Microsoft.

  5. BaaB said on July 22, 2010

    I can´t believe it was that simple!! I should have worked it out myself…
    Thanks a gazillion times!

  6. John Crosby said on September 6, 2010

    Finally an answer cant believe i didnt try clicking the help button sooner.

  7. Tim said on May 24, 2011

    thanks. amazing that I had to go thru 2 other instructions that didn’t work. THIS works!

 

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