Skypher » Live Messenger http://skypher.com The blog for absolutely nothing! Sat, 19 Nov 2011 22:09:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 MSN/Live Messenger: Disable “Open main window when Messenger starts” http://skypher.com/index.php/2009/02/12/msnlive-messenger-disable-open-main-window-when-messenger-starts/ http://skypher.com/index.php/2009/02/12/msnlive-messenger-disable-open-main-window-when-messenger-starts/#comments Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:09:46 +0000 SkyLined http://skypher.com/?p=105 Warning: preg_split() [function.preg-split]: Compilation failed: lookbehind assertion is not fixed length at offset 14 in /home/c3682jgn/domains/skypher.com/public_html/wp-content/themes/braille/options/plugins.php on line 77

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]]> Windows Live messenger (aka MSN Messenger) has two settings for controlling startup behavior; one to tell it to auto-start at windows startup and one to tell it to open the main window when it starts. For unknown reasons, Microsoft decided to turn on the later option and DISABLE it if you turn off the former. This means that if you do not auto-start Messenger, the main window will always open when it starts. This is annoying but fortunately there is a way to work around this by modifying the registry:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MSNMessenger\AppSettings] is a REG_BINARY of which the first BYTE will be F0 to enable opening the main window at startup and D0 to disable this. After you have turned off auto-start, you can modify this value using regedit.exe to stop the main window from opening.

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