[AdA$tra]

The biggest reason is all the intrusive junk they loaded it with...

I purchase hundreds of Dells for the firm I work for. The first thing I do is to clean off all the un-needed item ALL PC's come with. HP, IBM, Compaq and all the others have tons of "junk" on them as well. As far a Windows messenger is concerned, go to START: RUN: and paste this into the command line:

RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove

[Gorzaloon]

RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove

Thanks, I had gotten rid of it quickly that way, by finding the instructions on the Web. I actually did not feel like running the computer till I did.

The fact that made it not appear on the "Remove Programs" list in the control panel is sufficient prima facie evidence to me that their intentions were adverse.

This little act of greed converted me from a Microsoft defender into an enemy.

The Dell "Service.exe" that was hidden from the task manager did likewise:

Never another Dell in this house, and never another WXP here, ever.

[Quilla]

Hmmmm. Just copied and ran your run command and then received this error message: Error unregistering the OCX 16442.