This damn thing has been popping up almost as fast as my anger at these damn unwanted social upgrades. Thanks for making it soooooo easy, knowledge is a wonderfully dangerous thing. You listening MS? I keep having the same problems with the other MS programs, MSN and Bing infecting my machine and hijacking my settings. Thanks for the information.
I do not use messenger. Its propemsity to start when I reboot and pop up menus unexpectedly was driving me crazy! I installed REVO Uninstaller and it uninstalled both and cleaned the registry and hard drive of all leftovers.
What could not be removed during initial scan I was told will be removed during next reboot. As Of now I am very impressed. A very good program that seems to do what it says with a minimum of fuss. If withing the next 3 weeks I have no problems I will purchase the pro version to support the vender.
Well thought out. I spent all day looking for suggestions on how to disable or uninstall Windows Live Messenger. None of the advice worked until I cam to this site. Thanks for helping me with the problem. Your solution was simple, direct AND it worked! Hi there i knew the steps you have said to take already but they havnt worked for me. If i go to do it again it just keeps letting me uninstall it time after time but it obviously isnt uninstalling.
Ok, so I have deleted every little thing about windows live messenger, essentials, microsoft outlook, everything…. I cant find a folder file or program remotely related to it but when I go to reinstall it still says I already have the messenger.
Its a very frustrating task just to get it reinstalled. I was able to uninstall the new messenger live but I have two hotmail addresses and I am still unable to get into one of them. Everytime I try to login into the other one it keeps comming up with the error code I have taken all the necessary steps to rectify the problem but to no avail. Any suggestions please would be most apreciated.
I tried the Revo uninstaller and used the slowest option and it uninstalled everything including leftover folders and files and registry entries. Revo didnt work!! Ive had problems with Windows live Messenger To make sure that you are removing the right programs, click on one item at a time then click on the Remove button until all entries with All Users Windows Live are deleted from the list.
I used Revo, but it listed almost registry keys, some of which were clearly not restricted to Windows Live like. I was doing this because when i ran MSN it told me I needed to upgrade, but the web installer wouldnt do anything as it reported it already installed… So I tried removing it Windows Live Essentials.
Wow this was the most helpful site for this thank you a bunch i was very worried. Very eay to understand and all correct. This also works on vista and 7. Thank you so much. I had tried no less than nine different schemes for removing MSN, none of which worked worked for various reasons.
MSN is gone gone gone. Many thanks and kudos Leo. I am having issues with my windows live essentials. I went to Window live help, i did all that it instructed me to do. But it will not remove it self, where or what can I do now? I have no messenger available to use.
I went to run and installed appwiz. I chickened out and did not proceed. It looks like they keep trying harder to prevent removal of Live Messinger. What now??? Keep up the good work. Thanks, very helpful! The uninstall thing doesnt come up.??? What do i do now?? Becuase messenger is making my computer so slow, and is taking up heaps of space on my hard drive. You are the ONLY one who has helped me get rid of this!
It was hidden from the list and you helped indentify it so I could uninstall. Thank-you, Thank-you Thank-you!!! Wow, your instructions made it so easy and painless to remove the much hated Messenger!
Thank you so much, and keep up the great work! Thanks for your information. I would like to know more. I hope to know more detail. Following your instructions I was able to get rid of it in moments. Great help. Help pls? Hi, I have tried to uninstall windows messenger following your instructions in respect of Windows Live Essentials, but I do not seem to be able to get it to work. Is there some variant associated with Windoes 7.
At the moment, Windows 7 is not allowing even the pop up list when I click on uninstall. Any suggestions? Thank you sooo much! It installed itself with an update. After a bit of googeling I found your site and uninstalled it easily. BIG help!! Nothing happens it wont let me uninstall it, I have tried a number of times. Do you have any solutions? I have tried uninstalling Windows Live Messenger many times, following these steps.
Any help would be grand. Thanks alot. Worked, too! I am sorry but this does not help me in any way cause windows live folder is still in the start menu programs with windows live call and windows live messanger. I want this prog off my machine but ic annot find it in the control panel. Any ideas? Hi i downloaded a theme for wlm and it ended by messing it up. I want nothing to do with that program.
Yahoo Messenger rules except for the new advertising bug they added at the bottom of the message window Thank you once again for this article. When i click on Windows Live Essential, black pop up came up for a second and then disappeared without showing me the Uninstall wizard.
Now every time I try to run wlsetup-custom. Therefore, I am prevented from installing it. Please advise. I have also tried going into programs and deleting all files associated with windows essentails. Keep getting same message or onew saying i need permsission from trusted installer. Thank you sooooooooo much! I went to so many so called sites and they either wanted to charge or gave vague instructions! Sneaky of Windows to hide it in the windows essentials!
This was amazingly easy! Thank you again! Thankyou so much. I really need help with this. Please help me with this. Looks like my uninstall of Live Essentials is broken. What a mess!! Ideas would be most welcome. I uninstalled the Windows Live program messenger and mail.
Not sure how to get those back. It came up as one of the search options then you just click LIVE and then it takes you to that screen. Thanks so much!! I hate this messenger stuff and it always has to be uninstalled.
I just could not find it. Bless you! This is great, up until I followed this instruction my OE was slow loading, I had to do many procedures to get to read my email. But thankfully this has cleared up by getting rid of Windows Live, what a horrible program. What do I do now?
Finally some advice on the Internet that actually works immediately. I have spent all morning tryin to unistall this rubbish which is slowing down my machine and couldnt find a way to do so until I read your advice.
Nice one. Thank you for the help it worked perfectly for me. I was just wondering if I should put it on my computer instead because I do like having messenger. Thank you, I was able to uninstall the live Messenger, I did not know where it was I have Windows 7 and I was afraid to touch windows. You were a great help.
Live messenger it is an annoying program. I know this is the long way around to do this but, after searching google when i could not find the uninstaller, this is the only other way i could find to do it. I tried the Revo free version and it worked! After installing Revo uninstaller, I had to go to Options and select Uninstaller and check the box to show System Components. Then Windows Messenger was visible.
The Uninstall process actually acted like it was installing it but then reached a point where I could select all the files 2 steps to do this and delete them. Then it was gone! Thanks for the pointer. It asks permission then when I click on yes , nothing happens. Still nothing. Am I frustrated? Nothing happened. Please help!! Thanks for the help with removing Messenger. I like to keep my machine running with what I like rather than those things forced on me. I was concerned that I was doing the wrong thing but followed your advice and am grateful.
Thank you very much! Thanks x. I have been using Revo uninstaller for several years now and I have yet to find anything it will not un-install, including MS Live everything. I like the fact that it cleans left overs from the registry and HD after the program has uninstalled itself.
Also in the tools section clicking the Autorun Icon gives you full control of what gets loaded at system start-up. And it is Free! Eventually deleted the relevant. Yaay, and your instructions were very easy to follow and concise! Thanks a lot I really wanted to delete programme this due to some problems in the past with an old computer this was really helpful. Much appreciated. I just purchased a new laptop loaded with Windows7 Home 64bit.
Thank you, very much! I still have the Windows Messenger popup on startup. How do I completely remove the popup? I have windows 7 on my laptop. Any help will be appreciated. This Program completely removes Windows Live Essentials Beta Programs and any other program that cannot be unistalled from your computer.
This program removes , scans for leftover files of the program and shows the results of Leftovers then removes these as well. Try it! It Works. The windows essentials is not in the uninstall a program. I cant uninstall windows live msn beta! I found this article very helpful. If you could give me some edvice on what i can do it would be nice thanks:].
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I am using Windows 7 it looks different than the pictures in your article ,and I could not uninstall Windows live messenger using control panel. I followed the suggestion to click on Windows Essential, and then Uninstall button, but it does not work. The page does not move.
Some other times, when I click on uninstall, a window would appear saying that I should stop uninstalling one program before starting another… no matter how much I try, it does not work. I am not good with technology and would not risk getting software that may make things worse. Windows live mail is a horror. I deleted it off my taskbar but when I went into the control panel to uninstall it.
Please can you help me. Hi I know this thread is old, but wanted to let you know that the free version of revo Uninstaller did get rid of windows live essentials. Thanks for the tip. Thanks for the help. This is really useful because since getting Windows 7 operating system the default was set for the computer to go to sleep after 30 minutes. So the problem comes when you are trying to install something large like Windows Live Essentials components.
The computer may shut down somewhere on the install and cause a system startup problem. I hate windows they always put lots of crap in that you never wanted that slows down your pc. Messenger automatically fights to start up when i use hotmail even.
I am a manual guy and dont like machines making decisions for me. I removed it al but it is still on my computer, it said succesfully removed, and its still here. Now I cant find that windows essentials because I removed it, does anyone has any tips? I hate windows live…. It is taking control of what i should install…if i choose to install only the messenger application it doesnt let me do it.
They want me to install all those applications that i dont need. I cant seem to remove versions still present. It does not list all files. I still cannot find all messenger and windows live files. So im trying to solve this whole day. And then i started installation. I dont know what can i do.
I tryed cleaning my registry, tryed removing WLM tracks or some clues, but everytime same happens. What can i do?
Thank you so much for this. I spent a good hour looking by myself for a way to uninstall that darn thing. Works fine on Windows 7!!! In the Control Panel clicking in Windows Live did not bring up the selection menu and only the safe mode of Revo did the trick. So what I did was:. Copy the value into the Clipboard 6. Paste the UninstallString value into the Run dialog. This worked for various Windows Live components such as Writer. I hate Messenger and have been hopping since it somehow got on my machine.
Hi Thanks so much for that, but can I uninstall all of the windows live stuff, or is it needed for my computer to run? I dont think i want stuff like windows live sync, and windows live uploader etc, can I just uninstall it all? Ben All of the Windows Live components are optional freebies and can be installed and uninstalled at will. Many thanks … finally rid of the annoyance … it kept popping uop on a notebook i bought …thanks again. The Windows live messenger popped up every time I cut on my computer and it truly got on my nerves, but I could not figure out how to get it off.
Thank You!! I searched the net for hours and every other persons solution didnt work. Yours did! You da man Leo! Hopefully this uninstall thing works. The mothe-ship must have dowloaded it when I was sleeping. Thanks in advance. After Revo does the standard uninstall it then finds that 2, registry items still remain…! After deleting those it finds that files still remain mine were mainly in programs x I bit the bullet on both counts and selected all entries for deletion.
I also dumped some bloatware from my new Asus laptop using the fourth Revo option. Noticed that it boots much quicker as a minor bonus. I used Revo Uninstaller. Unlike Glynnux, I used the advanced setting and found Registry entries to delete. I recommend it highly. Microsoft tried to get tricky in hiding windows live messenger! Who uses messenger anyway? I got rid of it following your instuctions! Thanks again! Thanks so much for this post Leo. It was driving me crazy. You da man! Thank you!! We Googled, we tried every trick we could think of — and then I went to Ask Leo, and found the solution!
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Search Ask Leo! Do this Subscribe to Confident Computing! I'll see you there! AOL and Windows Messenger are two separate systems. I give it the permission but then the message pops up again saying I need to provide permission once more but this time there is no button to give permission, just simply a retry button which does nothing Reply.
Thanks, again……………Joan Clarke Reply. Please help me get rid of this idiot software Reply. I uninstalled windows essentials and nothing came up about messenger and i still cant get my windows live back Reply. What Can I Do Now to fix this problem??? Microsoft are a bunch of idiots as we all know Reply. Thanks Reply. Go to source. Disable Windows Live Messenger. In the Components list, click Windows Live Messenger to uncheck it. Click Next, and then click Finish. You will need administrative privileges to complete this process.
Include your email address to get a message when this question is answered. Uninstalling Windows Live Messenger will not delete your Messenger account. Helpful 0 Not Helpful 0. Submit a Tip All tip submissions are carefully reviewed before being published. You Might Also Like How to. How to. How to Overcome Chatting Addiction - wikiHow. Co-authors: 4. Updated: June 1, Categories: Instant Messaging. Italiano: Disinstallare Windows Live Messenger. Deutsch: Windows Live Messenger deinstallieren.
Thanks to all authors for creating a page that has been read 94, times. Is this article up to date? Yes No. Cookies make wikiHow better. By continuing to use our site, you agree to our cookie policy. About This Article. There are a few programs that can completely remove Windows Live Messenger from a computer system.
These programs work in a similar fashion like the antivirus software removers that remove files and Registry entries from installed antivirus solutions from the computers system. Zap Messenger. Zap Messenger is a portable software program for the Windows operating system.
Zap Messenger requires the Microsoft. The first thing ZapMessenger will do is attempt to cleanly uninstall Messenger normally and if that fails for any reason, it will forcibly remove Messenger from the Windows Installer engine allowing you to reinstall at your leisure without hindrance. Windows Live Messenger Uninstaller. Windows Live Messenger Uninstaller is another software program to remove Windows Live Messenger from the computer system.
The third program that can remove Windows Live Messenger is a tiny script which can be downloaded from Rapidshare. It will uninstall Windows Live Messenger and the Sign In Assistant including data and program folders, objects, contact store data, temp files and Registry keys. Update : Third program is no longer available, we have removed the link pointing to its download location. Thanks so much!
I have downloaded this ZapMessenger software and it let me remove it. Indeed a very useful software, just what I was looking for getting rid of the mess that Microsoft has built among the various messenger versions. Another alternative that should remove any version of WLM.
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