Clueless - can anyone help?

[Rene]

First off, the stats: I have a Gateway notebook that I bought in March of this year. It has Windows XP. I use AOL.

This morning I had to reinstall Windows XP because the updates that downloaded failed to install correctly and pretty much crashed my system. I never had a problem with popups before on this machine, but for some reason now I'm getting those EXTREMELY annoying gray Messenger Service popups that I used to get all the time on my old computer, even though I supposedly have popup controls on through AOL.

I HATE these Messenger Service popups - how do I get rid of them, and why on earth am I getting them now? Can anyone help? Thanks

[Nil Desperandum]

Disabling the service will stop these annoying popups.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/security/learnmore/stopspam.mspx

<3

[Rene]

Hey - thanks! Who knew it was that easy?

[Nil Desperandum]

::: raises hand :::
:P

[Scotty]

I knew that, somewhere in that vast sesspool that is my brain.

-Scott

[JoeP]

Me too. But I only just saw the thread.