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Keep Windows Live Messenger from starting automatically when you boot up pc. (How to)

Posted on March 2, 2012 by

microsoft This mornings post is inspired by the lady who I sat next to yesterday on my flight cross country flight. It actually turned out to be a fun computer class at 38,000 ft. One of the questions she brought up is the fact that she does not use Windows Live Messenger (Which is a chat client for those who don’t know what the program is), yet every time she boots her pc the program opens.  Once its opened, even if she clicks the X (top right) all that does is minimize the program (It doesn’t close it). Every program that is open takes up resources on a pc, doesn’t matter how small the program is, eventually if enough programs are open your pc will run out of resources and stop functioning properly. Imagine the pc resources being like seats in a car, eventually if you have a 5 seat car, and 6 people walk up for a ride. What do you do, either all squeeze into the car which is not safe (please always use seat belts) or find out who doesn’t have to go and let that person stay behind (just like closing a program).

     So as  promised during our flight, here is a simple write up on how to turn off WLM (NOTE: Depending on your version of Windows this program can also be called Microsoft or MSN Messenger). The following steps will only turn off the auto start up, it will NOT remove or delete the program from the pc, so even those who use the program may want to do this.

Look on the task bar (which is on the bottom right next to the clock usually). Locate the little “blue man” icon. (Example in pic below)

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  1. Open Windows Live Messenger window by double clicking the icon. If you don’t have an account do NOT worry. Account to Windows Live Messenger NOT required to do this.
  2. On the window that opens (as seen below) look for and click on Options.
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  • Locate and uncheck Start Messenger when I log on to my computer. Followed by clicking ok. image

     

    •      That’s it. From that point forward, Windows Live Messenger will not start during Windows boot up. When or if you wish to use Windows Live Messenger, all you will need to do is look at that start menu and click it from there. 

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    ALERT: WLM 2009 Users – Active links temporarily turned off to prevent a malicious worm

    Posted on November 14, 2010 by

    Microsoft has announced via the Windows Team Blog (http://windowsteamblog NULL.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archive/2010/11/12/security-alert-active-links-in-messenger-2009-temporarily-turned-off-to-prevent-a-malicious-worm NULL.aspx) that they are now blocking Active links in Windows Live Messenger 2009. What that means is that when you are in a chat with someone, if a link appears that you will NOT be able to directly click on it to open the link. If you wish to see the link you will need to copy it from the chat window and then past it into your browser.

    Keep in mind that not only in WLM chat but in all chat programs there is always a possibility of receiving “Rogue” links that were not actually sent by the person who you are talking to.  If you ever receive a link via chat, you want to make sure and check with the person you are talking to, so that you can confirm if its legit or not.

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    Software: The new Windows Live Essentials Beta – Available 6/24/10

    Posted on June 23, 2010 by

    microsoft-logo From a post earlier today on the Windows Team Blog (LINK: http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archive/2010/06/23/announcing-the-new-windows-live-essentials-beta.aspx (http://windowsteamblog NULL.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archive/2010/06/23/announcing-the-new-windows-live-essentials-beta NULL.aspx) ), the latest version of Windows Live Essentials will be out tomorrow, June 24th.

    The following Microsoft Video shows some of the latest features to Windows Live Essentials

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    Windows Live Essentials – the essential software for Windows

    Windows Live Essentials includes Messenger, Mail, Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, Writer, Sync and Family Safety. Essentials is available for free and in many cases may already be installed on your PC with Windows.

    Picture of Windows Live Essentials icons (http://windowsteamblog NULL.com/cfs-file NULL.ashx/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-00-53-82-metablogapi/1537 NULL.Essentials_5F00_5BD7465E NULL.png)

    In the upcoming release, we focused on achieving  two important goals with Essentials:

    1. Making everyday tasks simpler and enabling new possibilities on your PC
    2. Connecting Windows 7 to the cloud

    Windows Live Essentials beta requires Windows Vista or Windows 7, and is available in English, French, Dutch, Japanese, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, or Spanish.

    As previously announced (http://windowsteamblog NULL.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archive/2010/06/02/preview-of-the-new-windows-live-essentials NULL.aspx), this release of Essentials is focused on two things: connecting Windows 7 to the cloud services you already use, and making everyday tasks simpler, so that you can do more on your PC.

    Connecting Windows 7 to the cloud

    We’ve designed Essentials to connect your Windows experience to the web services you already use – not just the ones from Microsoft. The new betas of Windows Live Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, Mail, Writer, and Messenger (http://explore NULL.live NULL.com/windows-live-messenger-beta) connect to photo and video sharing (SkyDrive (http://skydrive NULL.com), Flickr (http://www NULL.flickr NULL.com/), YouTube (http://www NULL.youtube NULL.com/), Facebook (http://www NULL.facebook NULL.com/), SmugMug (http://www NULL.smugmug NULL.com)), social networking (Facebook (http://www NULL.facebook NULL.com/), MySpace (http://www NULL.myspace NULL.com), Linkedin (http://www NULL.linkedin NULL.com)), email (Hotmail (http://www NULL.hotmail NULL.com/), Gmail (http://www NULL.gmail NULL.com), Yahoo! Mail (http://mail NULL.yahoo NULL.com)), blogging (Spaces (http://spaces NULL.live NULL.com), WordPress (http://wordpress NULL.com), Blogger (http://www NULL.blogger NULL.com)), and document productivity (Office Web Apps (http://office NULL.live NULL.com)) services. And the new Windows Live Sync keeps your files synchronized across multiple PCs and in the cloud.  You can even directly access your PC over the web with Sync’s new remote desktop feature.

    Making everyday tasks simpler and enabling new possibilities

    People like to get creative on their PCs as much as they like seeing what everyone else has been up to. Whether it’s Retouch, Panoramic Stitch, or Photo Fuse in Photo Gallery, Auto Movie in Movie Maker, or Photo Mail in the new Windows Live Mail, we think you’ll be excited by the new additions to Essentials that make advanced tasks, well, easy. If you haven’t yet tried PhotoFuse to merge together the best of several photos, it’s a lot of fun. (http://techcrunch NULL.com/2010/06/02/microsoft-rolls-out-impressive-enhancements-to-windows-live-essentials-suite/)

    As soon as the beta goes live tomorrow (we’ll update this blog post when it does), you’ll be able to get it from here (http://explore NULL.live NULL.com/windows-live-essentials-beta). (LINK: http://explore.live.com/windows-live-essentials-beta (http://explore NULL.live NULL.com/windows-live-essentials-beta))