messenger 7.5

having upgraded to 7.5 I now find I have 2 icons on the taskbar and the sign
in on start up signs in to version 4.7. I have tried deleting the 4.7 and
downloading the 7.5 version but still have both versions on the taskbar. Im
running XP home. I'd be thankful for any advice would be

Hi cyd,

What you have is two versions of Messenger. 4.7 is Windows Messenger and
7.5 is MSN Messenger. To prevent Windows Messenger 4.7 from loading at start
up, do the following.

Go to Start/Run. Type in "msmsgs" without the quotes and click OK. Click
on Tools/Options - Click on the Preferences tab and uncheck the following
"Run Windows Messenger when Windows start" and "Allow Windows Messenger to
run in the background" then click OK.

"cyd" wrote:

> having upgraded to 7.5 I now find I have 2 icons on the taskbar and the sign
> in on start up signs in to version 4.7. I have tried deleting the 4.7 and
> downloading the 7.5 version but still have both versions on the taskbar. Im
> running XP home. I'd be thankful for any advice would be

"cyd" wrote:

> having upgraded to 7.5 I now find I have 2 icons on the taskbar and the sign
> in on start up signs in to version 4.7. I have tried deleting the 4.7 and
> downloading the 7.5 version but still have both versions on the taskbar. Im
> running XP home. I'd be thankful for any advice would be

ok this is some thing which i get with several programmes, i way i found of
getting rid of unwanted icons in the taskbar is goin to start>run>type in:
msconfig> go to start up tab and uncheck msn messenger, i also unchecked many
other programmes i.e i tunes helper which i wasnt aware were running every
timei started up..