Disabling a Service in ME

[Major Malfunction]

I don't have much call to work on Windows ME, so I'm stumped on this one. In
another post, I learned that ME does not have any administrative tools. How
can the Services be accessed to selectively disable a service? I've tried my
usual shortcut, Run > compmgmt.msc, but there is no management console.

[Mike M]

You need to forget all about how W2K and XP. 9x systems such as Win Me do
not have the tools you are used to those NT based systems. What service
are you trying to remove? Other than those intrinsic to the operating
system such as msgsrv32.exe, spool32.exe, mprexe.exe and rpcss.exe, all
other services will be launched by an entry in the
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Services key.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



Major Malfunction > wrote:

> I don't have much call to work on Windows ME, so I'm stumped on this
> one. In another post, I learned that ME does not have any
> administrative tools. How can the Services be accessed to selectively
> disable a service? I've tried my usual shortcut, Run > compmgmt.msc,
> but there is no management console.

[Major Malfunction]

I want to disable the Messenger Service. Do you delete the (un)desired key
or change a value, i.e. a one to a zero, in the key?

I'm wanting to do this to eliminate popups that seem to be coming in through
the messenger service (not IM). These are happening when IE is not even
open. I've disabled this service on other non-ME machines and the problem
goes away.

"Mike M" > wrote in message
...
> You need to forget all about how W2K and XP. 9x systems such as Win Me do
> not have the tools you are used to those NT based systems. What service
> are you trying to remove? Other than those intrinsic to the operating
> system such as msgsrv32.exe, spool32.exe, mprexe.exe and rpcss.exe, all
> other services will be launched by an entry in the
> HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Services key.
> --
> Mike Maltby MS-MVP
>
>
>
> Major Malfunction > wrote:
>
> > I don't have much call to work on Windows ME, so I'm stumped on this
> > one. In another post, I learned that ME does not have any
> > administrative tools. How can the Services be accessed to selectively
> > disable a service? I've tried my usual shortcut, Run > compmgmt.msc,
> > but there is no management console.
>

[Mike M]

Win Me has no messenger service. You need to forget about NT based
systems such as W2K and XP when dealing with Win Me.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



Major Malfunction > wrote:

> I want to disable the Messenger Service. Do you delete the
> (un)desired key or change a value, i.e. a one to a zero, in the key?
>
> I'm wanting to do this to eliminate popups that seem to be coming in
> through the messenger service (not IM). These are happening when IE
> is not even open. I've disabled this service on other non-ME machines
> and the problem goes away.

[Don Varnau]

Hi,
See:
http://www.stopmessengerspam.com/windows95me98/windows95me98.html

If there's a firewall running, you can block incoming UDP traffic on port
135. You may have to later expand that to ports 135-139. There have been
reports of messenger spam coming in on ports 136-139.
HTH,
Don
--
MVP IE/OE
Please reply to the newsgroup so that others may participate.

"Major Malfunction" <MajMalfunky[at]hotmail.com> wrote in message
...
> I want to disable the Messenger Service. Do you delete the (un)desired key
> or change a value, i.e. a one to a zero, in the key?
>
> I'm wanting to do this to eliminate popups that seem to be coming in
through
> the messenger service (not IM). These are happening when IE is not even
> open. I've disabled this service on other non-ME machines and the problem
> goes away.

[Richard G. Harper]

As Mike observed, there are no services in Win9x (Windows 98, 98 Second
Edition and Windows Me) - if you are getting Messenger-based pop-ups the
only cure is to uninstall Windows Messenger or Microsoft Messenger. Please
do note, however, that these messenger programs are NOT the same thing as
the Alerter service that Windows NT, 2000 and XP come with, and they are not
susceptible to those kinds of pop-up messages.

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"Major Malfunction" > wrote in message
...
>I want to disable the Messenger Service. Do you delete the (un)desired key
> or change a value, i.e. a one to a zero, in the key?
>
> I'm wanting to do this to eliminate popups that seem to be coming in
> through
> the messenger service (not IM). These are happening when IE is not even
> open. I've disabled this service on other non-ME machines and the problem
> goes away.
>
> "Mike M" > wrote in message
> ...
>> You need to forget all about how W2K and XP. 9x systems such as Win Me
>> do
>> not have the tools you are used to those NT based systems. What service
>> are you trying to remove? Other than those intrinsic to the operating
>> system such as msgsrv32.exe, spool32.exe, mprexe.exe and rpcss.exe, all
>> other services will be launched by an entry in the
>> HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Services key.
>> --
>> Mike Maltby MS-MVP
>>
>>
>>
>> Major Malfunction > wrote:
>>
>> > I don't have much call to work on Windows ME, so I'm stumped on this
>> > one. In another post, I learned that ME does not have any
>> > administrative tools. How can the Services be accessed to selectively
>> > disable a service? I've tried my usual shortcut, Run > compmgmt.msc,
>> > but there is no management console.
>>
>
>

[Major Malfunction]

Thanks to all trying to help.

There is no firewall, either hardware or software, on this system. I've been
trying to convince the owner to get a simple Cable / DSL Router. Now maybe
they'll understand why. I'll try uninstalling the Messenger(s) mentioned and
see if that helps.

Just wondering: the lack of . . . not sure what you'd call it . . . but
controls like Computer Management and such, is that why ME was never much of
a success? In my few dealings with ME, I've run into two categories of
installations: those that works flawlessly and those that have had
"gremlins" since day one. The latter have all cured their problems by moving
to XP and the former are happy with things as they are (and rightfully so)
and don't plan to change until their present system finally dies due to
hardware failure. I believe "If it works don't fix it" but sometimes ME
seems hard to fix when it needs fixing.

"Major Malfunction" > wrote in message
...
> I want to disable the Messenger Service. Do you delete the (un)desired key
> or change a value, i.e. a one to a zero, in the key?
>
> I'm wanting to do this to eliminate popups that seem to be coming in
through
> the messenger service (not IM). These are happening when IE is not even
> open. I've disabled this service on other non-ME machines and the problem
> goes away.
>
> "Mike M" > wrote in message
> ...
> > You need to forget all about how W2K and XP. 9x systems such as Win Me
do
> > not have the tools you are used to those NT based systems. What service
> > are you trying to remove? Other than those intrinsic to the operating
> > system such as msgsrv32.exe, spool32.exe, mprexe.exe and rpcss.exe, all
> > other services will be launched by an entry in the
> > HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Services key.
> > --
> > Mike Maltby MS-MVP
> >
> >
> >
> > Major Malfunction > wrote:
> >
> > > I don't have much call to work on Windows ME, so I'm stumped on this
> > > one. In another post, I learned that ME does not have any
> > > administrative tools. How can the Services be accessed to selectively
> > > disable a service? I've tried my usual shortcut, Run > compmgmt.msc,
> > > but there is no management console.
> >
>
>

[Mike M]

Once again, Computer Management as you call it is a feature of NT based
systems such as Win2K and XP and was never a component of any Win 9x based
system. However, unlike say Win 98, no resource kit was ever issued for
Win Me for the simple reason that it was only ever intended for use by
home users and not designed or intended to be used in other configurations
such as corporate or education.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



Major Malfunction > wrote:

> Thanks to all trying to help.
>
> There is no firewall, either hardware or software, on this system.
> I've been trying to convince the owner to get a simple Cable / DSL
> Router. Now maybe they'll understand why. I'll try uninstalling the
> Messenger(s) mentioned and see if that helps.
>
> Just wondering: the lack of . . . not sure what you'd call it . . .
> but controls like Computer Management and such, is that why ME was
> never much of a success? In my few dealings with ME, I've run into
> two categories of installations: those that works flawlessly and
> those that have had "gremlins" since day one. The latter have all
> cured their problems by moving to XP and the former are happy with
> things as they are (and rightfully so) and don't plan to change until
> their present system finally dies due to hardware failure. I believe
> "If it works don't fix it" but sometimes ME seems hard to fix when it
> needs fixing.

[Don Varnau]

If this user has any aptitude, Kerio Personal Firewall
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/keriofirewall.html (free for personal use)
should work well with WinME. It will take a few days to set up rules as
various applications try to access the net.

Don
--
MVP IE/OE
Please reply to the newsgroup so that others may participate.

"Major Malfunction" <MajMalfunky[at]hotmail.com> wrote in message
...
> Thanks to all trying to help.
>
> There is no firewall, either hardware or software, on this system. I've
been
> trying to convince the owner to get a simple Cable / DSL Router. Now maybe
> they'll understand why. I'll try uninstalling the Messenger(s) mentioned
and
> see if that helps.