Computer trivia

Windows messenger is quite popular in the western countries, and is hardly used anywhere in the eastern countries. Yahoo and Google messengers are quite dominant in the eastern countries. However, Windows bundles its messenger with the Operating System and thus most of us have to bear with it eating away the computer resources though it is never used. Unfortunately Windows doesn’t allow its messenger to be removed in the usual method to remove programs.

Here is what you have to do to remove Windows Messenger from your machine.

- Go to C:\Windows\INF

- Locate ’sysoc.inf’ in the above location and open this file with any text editor

- Locate the line containing ‘msmsgs’

- At the end of this line you can find the word ‘hide’

- Delete the word ‘hide’ (after deletion you must find two commas next to each other -  xxx,,xx)

- Save the file and close it

- Now open Control Panel and then ‘Add or Remove Programs’. Windows Messenger can also be found in this list now

- Go ahead and uninstall it as you would usually do

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