This is not Instant Messenger we are talking about. This is a Message Service, which is one of the service of Win2k. But other than that I really don't know what is the function of Message Service.
>>Too late for me, I already turned it off <g>. 10 minutes later my pc is still working and I am ok too, I think <g>
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>Through Messenger you can communicate with your friends in the real time... However, I just turned it off on this (my husband's) computer as well. He always got annoyed of all these messageboxes and my friends (VFP users) trying to access me, so he deleted all my contacts and I was able to restore only one...
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