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Author Topic: Outlook Express vs AOL Instant Messenger Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 12-27-2002 10:16 PM                        I have a PC with Windows 2000 Professional. Every single time I launch Outlook Express to check my fan mail or send a threat AOL Instant Messenger automatically launches with it. This pisses me off. If I had wanted to launch AIM I would have double clicked AIM. How do I get OE to leave AIM alone? Help!  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 12-27-2002 10:35 PM                     Never heard of that. What happens if you uninstall AIM and then reinstall it?  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 12-27-2002 10:38 PM                        Too lazy to try it. Is there something in Windows that can associate one program with another that might be able to be "unchecked"?  |  IP: Logged Mike Fitzgerald Expert Film Handler Posts: 224 From: Castle Hayne, NC, USA Registered: Jun 2002 posted 12-27-2002 10:45 PM                     in outlook go to tool, options and you will see where you can uncheck aim so it will not start. It is under the general tab  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 12-28-2002 12:41 AM                     I used to have the AOL Instant Messenger thingie, as well as Yahoo pager and ICQ. I got rid of all of it. Sure, I have a 21 inch Viewsonic monitor offering more than enough screen real estate for my web browser window, e-mail client and the IM software. But it got annoying after awhile for four different people to be IMing me at the same time. It's kind of challenging to try and have four differing IM typing conversations at the same time with all those IM windows lined up in a row. After awhile it felt like a hectic game of Missile Command in some of the more advanced levels. I don't need that stress.  |  IP: Logged Dennis Benjamin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1445 From: Denton, MD Registered: Feb 2002 posted 12-28-2002 01:57 AM                        I have this same problem with MSN messenger. Everytime someone uses my computer to check thier 'hotmail' account - it automatically launches MSN Messenger. Microsoft is sneaky this way.  |  IP: Logged Brian Hogan Expert Film Handler Posts: 119 From: Charlotte, North Carolina, USA Registered: Jul 2001 posted 12-28-2002 05:16 AM                     yes, unchecking the AIM option in outlook should take care of the problem, but it didnt for me. damn AIM would still open. i then found an option in AIM iteself that was about using AIM as the default messenger program. why do these programs have such big egos?! so i unchecked that box as well and now it doesnt start with outlook. yay!  |  IP: Logged Sam Hunter Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 779 From: West Monroe, LA, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 12-28-2002 09:24 AM                     Joe, I removed Messenger from my PC using the proceedure on the below website. Works for me so you might just give it a try. Ooops, wrong site, this is the proceedure I used http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q302089 or this http://windows.about.com/library/tips/bltip550.htm  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 12-28-2002 10:58 AM                    I avoid OE since that's generally what viri and worms etc. are written for. I stick to a trusty older version (pre bloatware) of Eudora. Rather featureless but but it does the job.  |  IP: Logged Aldo Baez Master Film Handler Posts: 266 From: USA Registered: Mar 2001 posted 12-28-2002 03:03 PM                    Quick and dirty way to remove msn messenger: 1. Click on the Start button and select Run. 2. Type "RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove" in the text box and click OK. You will see a progress bar appear shortly as it deletes its files and it will then ask you to reboot. After the reboot the program will be gone.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 12-28-2002 04:13 PM                        Thanks, Brian, that did the trick. Unchecking it in OE still launched AIM, but it didn't automatically sign on like it used to.  |  IP: Logged

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