Outlook Express/Windows Messenger

[Jennifer]

I have an Outlook Express question. I use Windows XP and
recently upgraded my hard drive. After re-installing XP on
the new hard drive I set about setting up express again
and encountered something I had forgotten about. When you
open Express, it automatically opens Messenger. It does
not sign in, just opens the program. I went into options
in both Express and Messenger and unselected the automatic
sign in feature in both programs but Messenger still pops
up when I open Express. I know there is a way to stop that
from happening (again it is not signing in, just opening
the program & I can't close Messenger as long as Express
is open) but I can't remember how I stopped it last time.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

 

[rifleman]

I have an Outlook Express question. I use Windows XP and
recently upgraded my hard drive. After re-installing XP on
the new hard drive I set about setting up express again
and encountered something I had forgotten about. When you
open Express, it automatically opens Messenger. It does
not sign in, just opens the program. I went into options
in both Express and Messenger and unselected the automatic
sign in feature in both programs but Messenger still pops
up when I open Express. I know there is a way to stop that
from happening (again it is not signing in, just opening
the program & I can't close Messenger as long as Express
is open) but I can't remember how I stopped it last time.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

This newsgroup is for support of Outlook

97/98/2000/2002/2003 from the Office suite of products. Outlook

Express is actually a separate program despite the similar name.



For help with your OE questions, try an OE newsgroup such as

microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress (for OE 6), or

an OE help website such as http://insideOE.tomsterdam.com. If you're

accessing the Microsoft newsgroups through the MS Product Support

Services "Community Newsgroups" web interface, click

http://communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.asp?icp=InternetExplorer

to get to the Internet Explorer groups, then click the plus sign next to

your version of IE to see the link to the Outlook Express group for that

version number. Good luck!