Disabling Messenger 5?

[sebas78]

I'm not sure if this topic is in the right place, but here is my question:

I was wondering if there is a way to disable MSN Messenger 5. I work at a school, and our students spend too much time chatting. So we disabled Messenger 4.xx by using the PreventRun=1 registrykey. But guess what... Messenger 5 doesn't seem to be impressed by our restrictions. And the students almost immediately noticed this. So a few weeks later those annoying MSN messages keep popping up at almost every screen in the building.

Does anybody know of a new way to prevent students from running Messenger? (The computers are Windows 98se machines)

[netsurf]

I was able to uninstall the MS Mess.5 in my winME. If you are looking for help with this, this website may have a sol'n for you:

www.windows-help.net

[The Tool]

>Disabling Messenger 5?
You can always stop it from auto starting from Tools > Options > Preferences.

>Does anybody know of a new way to prevent students from running Messenger?
You will have to disable the port which MSN messenger uses.

[sebas78]

Messenger is able to switch to port 80 when you disable its main port. But a nice person sent me an email with a nice solution called Program Killer. It's not what I was looking for, but good enough for me. Thanx for all your suggestions.



http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/...killer_zw.html

[setec]

Or you could always completely delete the folder:

C:\Program Files\Messenger

But, they could reinstall I suppose.