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RE: "start weird"
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....


This post was edited on 07-30-2004 at 10:24 PM by CookieRevised.
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"start weird" - by marissa on 07-30-2004 at 09:50 PM
RE: "start weird" - by .blade// on 07-30-2004 at 10:05 PM
RE: "start weird" - by ddunk on 07-30-2004 at 10:09 PM
RE: "start weird" - by marissa on 07-30-2004 at 10:09 PM
RE: "start weird" - by .blade// on 07-30-2004 at 10:13 PM
RE: "start weird" - by CookieRevised on 07-30-2004 at 10:14 PM
RE: "start weird" - by jren207 on 07-30-2004 at 10:22 PM
RE: "start weird" - by CookieRevised on 07-30-2004 at 10:24 PM
RE: "start weird" - by jren207 on 07-30-2004 at 10:27 PM
RE: "start weird" - by toddy on 07-30-2004 at 10:28 PM
RE: "start weird" - by marissa on 07-30-2004 at 10:29 PM
RE: "start weird" - by CookieRevised on 07-30-2004 at 10:43 PM
RE: "start weird" - by marissa on 07-30-2004 at 10:58 PM
RE: "start weird" - by jren207 on 07-30-2004 at 11:12 PM
RE: "start weird" - by toddy on 07-30-2004 at 11:17 PM
RE: "start weird" - by M73A on 07-30-2004 at 11:28 PM
RE: "start weird" - by toddy on 07-30-2004 at 11:32 PM
RE: "start weird" - by CookieRevised on 07-30-2004 at 11:37 PM


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