Are you tired of getting those pop ups sent to your ip address if you are not behing a router or firewall. I have found out how to block those.
This was figured out by me to help you all who
have problems being interrupted in the middle
of something or game by a messenger pop up.
DO NOT waste your time downloading software
to get rid of this problem.
-------INSTRUCTIONS-----------
Here is a fix for you NT/XP folks...
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Click on My Computer and open the control panel.
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Open the Performance and Maintenance or
Administrative Tools.
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Double-click on Services, and scroll down to Messenger.
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Double-click Messenger and click the Stop button
which will stop the service.
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Change the startup type to Disable.....no more
Messenger popups. This NOT MSN Instant Message service
called Windows Messenger but this IS a component part of
Windows XP only for Network Administrators to send
broadcast messages to network users.
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