How do I take Yahoo IM off my start up

[serryjw]

It kills my computer because everything is trying to load at once and it freaks out. I still want IM but NOT on my start up??

I went to start,settings and start up menu ....BUT it keeps coming back!

[WiltedFlowerChild]

1. msconfig for PC

Go to start, click on either run or find (depending on your Windows version), type in msconfig and click the startup tab and disable the program.

[serryjw]

2. I did it....but

my computer freaked out and gave me an error message ( illegal operation)?

[Darkseid69]

3. That's because its the wrong place

You want to open regedit and goto

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

and remove the "Yahoo! Pager" key

[WiltedFlowerChild]

4. hmmmm

Try a restart? Run your anti-virus program? Do you get lots of illegal ops messages?

[WiltedFlowerChild]

5. sorry

msconfig always does the trick for me after young IM freak daughter has been on the computer.

[ogradda]

7. same thing here.

only it's my darling son who loads my 'puter up with crap. maybe he should wait until everything's fully loaded before running msconfig?

[MsConduct]

6. In the yahoo messenger window, click the 'messenger' tab,

then click 'preferences', click the 'general' tab, then uncheck the box under 'when I start up my computer'. Worked for me.

[Darkseid69]

8. that will do it too

if you dont want to get technical

[MsConduct]

9. If it works, who cares if it's technical or not? I didn't know that only

'professionals' could give advice here.

[B Calm]

10. I had the Yahoo IM, I prefer MSN messenger.

My MSN messenger stays off until I sign in..

[Rhiannon12866]

11. Mine on MSN did exactly what his is doing, same for Yahoo.

I prefer AIM.:shrug:

[3lefts]

12. Usually you can do it within the software itself...

as someone has already mentioned.

For those of you who use Yahoo, MSN and AOL IM packages (like me), Trillian will combine them all for you in one interface. Pretty convenient and I'm not expert enough, yet, to know if it retains all the uses of each separate package.