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[chess]

Lots of very rude words to WinXP, or specifically 'Windows Messenger' and its habit of randomly logging in (logging me out of my perfectly good MSN connection through Trillian) and refusing to close unless OE and IE are also closed.

Am now downloading Opera. Will look into using it as mail client (Parents can use OE, they don't have a Passport associated with their account for bug-squishing reasons). Stupid WinXP, you go squish now.

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[passage.livejournal.com]

Ack. I take it you can't figure out how to tell windows messenger to go away (check if it's in your startup folder).

Unless they've drastically improved the mail interface with opera 7 then it's usable, but not suitable for your main box (its a bit broken on html mail for a start, which seems bizzare, this is a browser afterall!).

I've heard good things about Mulbery.

Neil

P.S.: Give messenger the wrong password? ;-)

[chess]

I already told it not to load on startup, but it loads (and signs in) when OE loads. I could just mangle the Passport and unmangle it when I need it, though, I guess. *goes hunting for it*

[napoleonherself.livejournal.com]

Control panel, Administrative Tools, Component Services. "Services (Local)" on the left. Scroll down to Messenger, right-click, Properties, and choose disabled as startup type.

Damn Messenger.

[r-win.livejournal.com]

Tell OE to jump straight to the inbox; don't go to the main screen. Messenger only loads with OE if you go to the main screen