rod03801: the update last week may not afect you but it has me. strange things but hope my new update to all will clear it up

nightmagic: update windows and windowsxp security helped.

rod03801:Ctrl+F5  Thats a hard refresh.. I have to do it all the time to get my smileys to move again

Rose: Thanks!!! that did it! I knew I had seen people mention some sorta thing like that.. but I never really paid attention, because that never happened with WebTV. I missed my moving smileyz!!!!

rod03801:  I've had that problem show up a few times too.  For some reason the dancing banana stops alot.  The others may be working but in the same message that one doens't. A ctrlf5 seems to fix the problem. 

It doesn't sound like I virus.   It sounds like you've had a program installed onto your computer.  How long have you had the computer and do you have a restore point on your computer?  If you do, you could restore it to an earlier date and see if that helps.

rod03801: certain sites that you go on (ones for serial codes ect) will intall a bit of software on your machine they do not normally damage your machine but they do your head in when they keep poping up in the little balloons every 10 seconds or so , i tried all sorts to get rid , in the end i bought some antivirus protection and that sorted it out easily .

Jason: I ran a virus scan a few days ago, and it found nothing. I wonder if there is any way to completely remove the Windows Messenger? (Since I intend on shutting off everytime it comes back on.) I wonder why it doesn't stay off.. What sort of legitimate things would it be used for? (Wondering if I am going to regret turning it off? But I can't deal with those things popping up a few times a minute)

rod03801: You have probably tried this but just in case, go to start then run then type in MSCONFIG click ok this opens a box, look for startup in the menue at the top click on that then look for msmsgs, if that box is checked uncheck it, that is how I stopped mine starting up each time. It says msn but mine is windows too. If it don,t work the first time do it a few times and let the pc reboot.

rod03801: Do you actually mean the messenger as in the one you can send messages to other people with ?



If so click start then control panel ,then open the icon for add and remove programs when that opens on the left hand side look for add or remove windows components ,when that opens scroll down untill you see windows messenger and take the tick out , then it wont start up .