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Well, this weird thing popped up on my msn. I dont know the reason for it or when it appeared there but look at the image. Start Weird

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Originally posted by marissa
Well, this weird thing popped up on my msn. I dont know the reason for it or when it appeared there but look at the image. Start Weird

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I don't see anything weird That happens when you hit that downward-pointing arrow...

She's talking about the last option, "Start Weird" The little blue dot thing appears when you have a game from Microsoft installed and you can invite someone to play it online with you.

I looked through all the games that Microsoft creates and failed to find anything that starts with 'weird' so thats... dare I say... weird?

http://www.microsoft.com/games/pc/default.aspx is all the games that will give you that extra option in MSN

you boys dont see the "start weird" thing on the bottom? Thats the weird thing, i wanted to know waht it was from.

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Originally posted by marissa
you boys dont see the "start weird" thing on the bottom? Thats the weird thing, i wanted to know waht it was from.

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Ya I noticed that now.... do you have any skins for MSN or M$ games installed?

This has nothing todo with skins and/or Microsoft Games....

She obviously installed something that adds new applications to that menu. You can add/remove your own apps by tweaking the registry....

So, to delete it, close MSN Messenger completely... Then either uninstall the dodgy program that you have installed (or tried out). Or edit the registry yourself:

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MessengerService\SessionManager\Apps
Under that key you'll see many strange numbers, all those numbers are ID's for added applications, one of those numbers is the "Start something wierd"-option....

So click on each number and look into the right window if you can see "something wierd" as a value for "name". If you do, delete the entire number from
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MessengerService\SessionManager\Apps

btw, the value of "path" contains the actual program that is started when you press that thing in msn messenger... You may wanna check that out, as this could be something dodgy....

the two 3 degrees items that are usually at the bottom aren't there either

(groups and musicmix, introduced in ver 6.1)

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Originally posted by jren207
the two 3 degrees items that are usually at the bottom aren't there either
(groups and musicmix, introduced in ver 6.1)

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That's only if you actual install those things...

I have them everytime I install MSN Messenger. I don't have 3 degrees installed and when I click one of the items, it opens a page to download the software.

Or is it just my PC?

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Originally posted by CookieRevised

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Originally posted by jren207
the two 3 degrees items that are usually at the bottom aren't there either
(groups and musicmix, introduced in ver 6.1)

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That's only if you actual install those things...

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no its not, well i haven't install anything and i got them