redsonixx,

Thank you for using the Dell Community Forum.

Hopefully, the information in the title below will help you remove messenger.

How to Remove Live Messenger

I would like to remove it as well, since telling it not to run on its own set up doesn't stop it. Nice touch, Microsoft. You know best for me, right? (Hey I'm just the user, why should I have an interest in software I don't use, running itself even when I tell it not to, and it does anyway -- but not just at startup now. Randomly. Sweet.)

Appreciate Jesse L's note here except it doesn't include Windows 7. Anybody aware how to do this for Windows 7 64bit?  I may just rename the binary  "msnmgr.exe" but no doubt I'll just get error messages then instead of the stupid unwanted icon bouncing up with the red x through it.