Simply remove old MSN Windows Messenger
February 15th, 2009
Do you want to remove an old Windows Messenger, known as MSN from your computer? Here is the way to uninstall built-in Messenger that automatically installs with Windows itself.

- navigate to X:\Windows\inf and check for a file named sysoc.inf
- make sure you back up sysoc.inf in case anything goes wrong
- open sysoc.inf in your favorite text editor
- find line
msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,hide,7 - remove “hide” part from this code to get
msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,,7 - save file the sysoc.inf file
Now you will be able to remove MSN Messenger.
- go to start Control Panel
- open Add or Remove Programs
- scroll down to the bottom and select Windows Messenger
- click next button to permanently remove MSN

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It’s good to see this msn finally removed. I am not even sure why is this installed with Windows itself.
good, who needs first version of msn these days…
@Depressed
I do… My new version got virus so I had to use that one until I got virus removed xD
guys you encounter 2009 version error when you sign in it says server is temporary unaavailable? error code 8000401a?
you guys got fix on this?