Hello JYoung6180, Tuesday, May 17, 2005, 6:26:16 AM, you wrote: Jac> So AOL made the decision to shut off Windows Messenger on all AOLers' Jac> computers without telling them. Even MicroSoft now ship WinXP with Windows Messenger turned off by default as the problem of these pop-ups was too difficult to solve and it was really annoying a lot of users as it bypassed all security - of course the reason that spammers hooked onto the idea <lol> -- Best regards, Barry mailto:barry@yobunny.co.uk MicroSoft Free Zone running Xandros 2.0 Deluxe