Hi Mark This is how it's done on XP Home. Go into your control pannel and under administrative tools hit enter on services. You should only need to hit tab once to bring you to a list view of local services. Hit m until you get to messenger. It will say something about sends and receives messages or something like that. Hit enter on it to go to the properties and on the general page hit stop. After you have stopped it set the startup type to disable. This way it will be disabled everytime you restart the machine. Barry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Threadgold" <m.j.threadgold@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "accessuk list" <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 8:10 AM Subject: [access-uk] Disabling windows messenger On XP media centre how can I disable Windows Messenger, please? Regards, Mark Threadgold Of all the things I have ever lost, the thing I miss most is my mind... ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq