{"id":1687,"date":"2009-07-28T12:05:48","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T17:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/?p=1687"},"modified":"2009-07-28T12:05:48","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T17:05:48","slug":"disabling-windows-live-messenger-at-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2009\/07\/28\/disabling-windows-live-messenger-at-startup\/","title":{"rendered":"Disabling Windows Live Messenger at Startup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn&#8217;t find documentation on this elsewhere on the net so I decided to add a note here.  I have to use a Windows XP workstation at my job and I&#8217;ve been annoyed that the Windows Live Messenger program seems to start up every time the system restarts.  Disabling this was non-obvious:<\/p>\n<li>Open Windows Live Messenger<\/li>\n<li>Click on the question mark icon on the right hand side of the window.<\/li>\n<li>From the popup menu choose <em>Show the menu bar<\/em><\/li>\n<li>In the menu bar (at the top of the window) click on <em>Tools -&gt; Options<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Click on <em>Sign In<\/em> in the left hand side menu<\/li>\n<li>Uncheck the checkbox that says <em>Automatically run Windows Live Messenger when I log on to Windows<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Click the <em>OK<\/em> button.<\/li>\n<li>Quit the program<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn&#8217;t find documentation on this elsewhere on the net so I decided to add a note here. I have to use a Windows XP workstation at my job and I&#8217;ve been annoyed that the Windows Live Messenger program seems to start up every time the system restarts. Disabling this was non-obvious: Open Windows Live&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2009\/07\/28\/disabling-windows-live-messenger-at-startup\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Disabling Windows Live Messenger at Startup<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[730],"class_list":["post-1687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-windows-live-messenger-howto","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wnIz-rd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1688,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions\/1688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}