mj2c, that is great to know. My friend who tried to get rid of Messenger went in to the program and tried and after turning it off, it came back the next time she booted up. The same thing happened when she disabled in msconfig.

We were working over the phone, so maybe she missed a step. Thanks for the tip!

I guess I'm talking about two different things: I wanted to UNINSTALL it, not disable it. I never use it so there was no reason to have it there at all.
I'm just glad that I'm not staring at it first thing every morning, and it's one less thing taking up computer space (and no doubt years of updates to come).

That's what I thought, Mary. If you're not going to use it like me, why even have it!!