How do I stop the kids downloading MSN Messenger or other messeging programs????
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Why are you people giving a serious answer to this question? This may be the worst parent ever on Earth.\n\nRather than monitor his kids' activity, he simply bans the technology. \n\nOf course, what occurs to every normal person -- that password protecting the PC itself and setting the kids to guest privledges would prevent them from being able to install programs -- never dawns on him; nor does the concept of escalating penalties for escalating misbehavior.\n\nThen, he admits to not wanting to spend money to solve the problem.\n\nToo lazy to mentor his kids, too dumb to read the manual, too ignorant to enforce a simple rule and too cheap to enforce the one rule he has made.\n\nWorst ... parent ... ever! Stop giving serious answers to this buffoon!
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Hi,\n\nI know the exact problem you're having.\nI bet 99.9% you have a Norton program installed on your pc eithe norton antivirus,systemworks etc.\nNorton blocks that feature of messenger, what I do when I want to play those games, I just disable norton for a few min or hours and when i'm done playing i'll just enable it back.\nWhen disabling norton, you might need to sign out and sign back in to see the games on messenger ;)
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Ask your Mommy to remove the parental control software.
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go to the change administrator settings and make everyone a user,then give yourself a password that they don't know and then kick out messenger.They wont be able to change anything without your approval, and don't forget to turn off the computer and reboot it to make sure it has all kicked in\nwill be a bit of a pain signing in everytime but it keeps things out
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Popup blockers will only stop web based popups. They can help somewhat, but if you are getting excessive popups, and popups even when you are offline, it means you have trojan downloaders on your machine that are calling out to deliver the pop up ads. \n\nTry a full cleaning and dis-infection routine. \n\nThis is the one I use (it will take some time).\n\n1. Scan for virus and remove (free online scan) with BitDefender\n\nhttp://www.bitdefender.com/site/home/\n\n2. Scan for trojans and remove (free online scan) with Ewido\n\nhttp://www.ewido.net/en/\n\n3. Scan for ad/spyware and remove (free download) with Spybot Search & Destroy\n\nhttp://www.safer-networking.org/en/spybotsd/index.html\n\n\nIf you are using an older version of Windows (pre XP-SP2) you may also be getting "Messenger Service" popups which are caused by Microsoft leaving the almost never used Windows Messenger Service enabled by default. This was corrected in Windows XP- Service Pack 2.\n\nUnderstand that the Windows Messenger Service is completely different from, and not in any way related to, "MSN Messenger", "Windows Live Messenger" "yahoo Messenger", or any other well-known instant messaging system. Therefore, disabling the Windows Messenger service will have no effect upon your use of any other instant messaging applications. They will continue to work without trouble. \n \n\nTo disable this service in older versions of Windows use the free, Shoot The Messenger from:\nhttp://www.grc.com/stm/ShootTheMessenger.htm\n\nGood luck.
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ignore them...\n\non your YM click messenger...\n\nthen preferences ctrl+shift+P\n\non category choose IGNORE LIST\n\nfinally add YM ID's you want to ignore\n\nclick OK
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YOU HAVE TO DOWNLOAD MESSENGER
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Go Tools, then internet options.  Work on the security tab and content tabs.  If you have Nortons, it has a seperate Parental control tab.
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Go to control panel...Add Remove Programs...Yahoo Messenger.  Click the "Change/Remove" Button. Folow the directions and u'r all done
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this is a virus that has to be manually removed. This is how to do it.\n\n1: Close the IE browser. Log out messenger / Remove Internet Cable.\n\n2: To enable Regedit\n\nClick Start, Run and type this command exactly as given below: (better - Copy and paste)\n\nREG add HKCU&#92;Software&#92;Microsoft&#92;Windows&#92;CurrentVersion&#92;Policies&#92;System /v DisableRegistryTools /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f\n\n3: To enable task manager : (To kill the process we need to enable task manager)\n\nClick Start, Run and type this command exactly as given below: (better - Copy and paste)\n\nREG add HKCU&#92;Software&#92;Microsoft&#92;Windows&#92;CurrentVersion&#92;Policies&#92;System /v DisableTaskMgr /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f\n\n4: Now we need to change the default page of IE though regedit.\n\nStart>Run>Regedit\n\nFrom the below locations in Regedit chage your default home page to google.com or other.\n\nHKEY_CURRENT_USER&#92;SOFTWARE&#92;Microsoft&#92;Internet Explorer&#92;Main\n\nHKEY_ LOCAL_MACHINE&#92;SOFTWARE&#92;Microsoft&#92;Internet Explorer&#92;Main\n\nHKEY_USERS&#92;Default&#92;Software&#92;Microsoft&#92;Internet Explorer&#92;Main\n\nJust replace the attacker site with google.com or set it to blank page.\n\n5: Now we need to kill the process from back end. Press Ctrl + Alt + Del\n\nKill the process svhost32.exe . ( may be more than one process is running.. check properly)\n\n6: Delete svhost32.exe , svhost.exe files from Windows/ & temp/ directories. Or just search for svhost in your comp.. delete those files.\n\n7: Go to regedit search for svhost and delete all the results you get.\n\nStart menu > Run > Regedit >\n\n8: Restart the computer. That’s it now you are virus free.
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Windows ME is the worst windows ever made... Seriously. Are you sure it's solely the messenger's fault? I'd look for spyware and viruses as well... But you never know.
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Consider parental control software. e.g. CyberPatrol, Net Nanny. I use McAfee's Internet Security Suite.
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You shouldn't download parental controls.  The pay ones will help, but one important thing you need to realize is this:\n\nWATCH YOUR KIDS. No amount of software will take the place of parental supervision.  Children will figure out how to get around any controls you put on there.  Quit being lazy and either watch your kids, or keep them off the computer.  It's really that simple.
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I doubt there is any "Notice" you can put in that will stop them from installing games.\n\nThe best thing is to take away their admin rights on their PC's. That way, they will not be able to install the games in the first place.
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GO TO YOUR SECURITY IN CONTROL PANEL AN SEE IF YOUR SETTINGS ARE RIGHT TO STOP THESE
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Start > Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs > in the right hand column click on > Add&#92;Remove Windows Components > MSN Explorer needs to be checked.\nMSN Messenger can be downloaded here - \nhttp://join.msn.com/messenger/overview/
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Force yourself to limit your internet use.  Uninstall all IM programs.