We have a new laptop for a new person starting at work that came with XP. UGH.<BR><BR>We're a school, and have banned any IM clients of any sort. How can I remove it from XP? I hate MS for making it ...

If you have SP1 installed, you can just uninstall messenger from 'Add and Remove Windows Components' . This is found at the start menu > 'Set Program Access and Defaults'.

Any unwanted application popping up right at startup can be irritating. For Facebook Messenger, try the following methods to prevent it from starting with Windows: Disable from Task Manager Disable ...