Vista - Live messenger uninstall

I had LM v4.7 running on my laptop and installed v7, thinking it would
overwrite the v4.7. For ages I couldn't understand why, however I configure
v7, LM always loggrd me on automatically. then I uninstalled v7 and
discovered it was stil happning...of course v4.7 was still running
seperately in the background. Now I can't stop it. There is no option
offered to stop it running from start up and no option to stop it from
signing in. There;s also no way to uninstall the damn thing as it doensn't
present itself in the unintall list in 'add or remove prgrams'. There
nothing i can do it seems. Please will someone tell me how to get rid of
this wretched parasite? I've even uninstalled .net but still cannot get rid
of LM. Please help before i toss my laptop in the bin.

thanks
david

Greetings David,

I assume you mean Windows Messenger 4.7, not Windows Live Messenger 4.7 (as there is no such
thing and as you already noted, is a separate a product).

To uninstall Windows Messenger, click the Start button, then click Run and enter:
RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove
Then click OK.

Windows Messenger will then be uninstalled. For more detailed instructions see:
http://messenger.jonathankay.com/problem.aspx?ID=7

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