If you'd like Windows Messenger to show up in the list of programs you can add and remove from Windows, navigate to C:WINDOWSinf (substituting the correct drive letter for your version of Windows) and open sysoc.inf (if you cannot see this folder, click on Tools, folder options,view then check "Show hidden files or folders).

 

messanger (spelling on purpose)

 

Open the sysoc.inf file, you'll see a line that reads:

 

msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,hide,7

 

Change this to the following:

 

msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,,7

 

You only remove the word hide, nothing else. Save the file. Windows Messenger will appear in Add or Remove Programs, then Add/Remove Windows Components, then , and you can remove it for good