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waynf

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I had a problem yesterday with Firefox or IE not opening up and Microsoft Outlook wouldnt work either and I received a message indicating that "program currently being used by another application. I immediately did a "CNTRL>ALT>DELETE" and noticed that under applications that "msnmsgr> was running even though down on my taskbar on right hand side that Msn Messsenger was on standby with an "X" over it. I immediately exited the application and then my browsers and email worked correctly. However I wondered why this was happening because it never interferred before. If you require any more information please advise.

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try this...

click on start...run...type in msconfig...press enter...click on startup tab...uncheck messenger...then reboot
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i did as you advised. On my drop down list the closest thing i have is "msmsgs". is this the one?
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yep...
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Problem rectified
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great... :thumbsup:
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