And I figured out what caused this pain: I recently bought myself a lovely new ergo keyboard with leatherette wrist rest... and it needed the new Microsoft Intelli-software... and it seems I got a "bonus" program install with it! Yay! I discovered this while typing just now and got a popup saying that the Messenger key had been disabled.
Y'know, I did recently have to flash my BIOS. Seems that the ol' Dell laptops are having trouble with the newest security and other software out there. Now it works like a charm!
Y'know, I did that. And I disabled it from running in the background. And even set its registry startup interval to something like a million years. But still.
Well, I set it for a very long interval, which didn't help. Seems that my laptop's Fn+arrow-down keys together launch it. Now they just launch a new instance of IE. Stupid shortcut keys.
Well, sure, if I wanted to be trapped forever in an Ellison-esque world of untouchable computing, where every attempt at changing configuration could spell my doom!
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Click Start / Run Then type the following:
RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove
Press ENTER
(With %windir% being your window's directory, of course)
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And I figured out what caused this pain: I recently bought myself a lovely new ergo keyboard with leatherette wrist rest... and it needed the new Microsoft Intelli-software... and it seems I got a "bonus" program install with it! Yay! I discovered this while typing just now and got a popup saying that the Messenger key had been disabled.
Heh heh. Take it, Messenger!
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Tricksy thing.
Deleted now, though, thanks to Stu!
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Well, I'm glad you got rid of the persistent lil bugger. I had a heck of a time with it too.
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Hey, a cheap shot's better than none at all.
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8-D
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