Preventing OE from loading Windows Messenger

[Neily]

Apologies if this has been asked before. I searched but could not find the answer.

Whenever OE loads it insists on loading Messenger. I use messenger but not that often and it slows the loading of OE. I read an article (in the help file I believe) about this but the menu option it said to access was unavailable.

Can anyone give advice on how to keep Messenger on the system but stop it loading whenever I load OE?

Many Thanks

Neil

 

[smah]

An excerpt from

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_oe.htm

Disable Messenger and Speedup Outlook Express

There are various ways of disabling Windows Messenger from automatically starting, but they all have some drawbacks. Until now. Namely, if you disable Messenger, OE takes forever to load if you have the Contacts pane enabled.

Go to: Start/Run/Regedit and navigate to this key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Outlook Express

Add a New, DWord value called Hide Messenger and set the value to 2.
(This step is required to prevent a long delay when opening OE with the Contacts pane enabled).