{"id":9218,"date":"2009-09-21T19:21:47","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T18:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/ask-onsoftware-uninstall-windows-live-messenger\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:20:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:20:12","slug":"ask-onsoftware-uninstall-windows-live-messenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/ask-onsoftware-uninstall-windows-live-messenger\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask OnSoftware: Uninstall Windows Live Messenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are few things as annoying as a program that&#8217;s easy to install, but almost impossible to remove from your computer. One of them is Windows Live Messenger, which comes preinstalled with Windows Vista and can get a bit stubborn when trying to get rid of it. One of our readers, <strong>Jean<\/strong>, had this problem and decided to ask OnSoftware for help:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I already have enough stuff registered in this lousy, abominable pop-up computer. How do I get rid of that WINDOWS LIVE MESSENGER window that pops on my screen??!!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you&#8217;re in the same situation as Jean, you&#8217;ll be glad to know it&#8217;s easier to solve that it seems. All you have to do is download <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn-tools.net\/wlm-msn-uninstaller\/\"><strong>WLMUninstaller<\/strong><\/a>, a handy application that locates Windows Live Messenger on your hard drive and removes it in a couple of minutes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2009\/09\/wlmuninstaller-03.png\" alt=\"Remove Windows Live Messenger from your PC\" \/><\/p>\n<p>WLMUninstaller is dead easy to use: run the program \u2013 no installation required \u2013 and click <strong>Uninstall<\/strong> to remove Windows Live Messenger from your computer. That&#8217;s all! WLMUninstaller does leave some traces behind (a couple of folders and files inside the Windows Live directory) but the actual IM client will be gone forever.<\/p>\n<p>Do you know any other trick to effectively uninstall Windows Live Messenger? Feel free to share it in comments! Also, keep on sending all your problems, questions and doubts to <strong><a href=\"mailto:ask@onsoftware.com\">ask@onsoftware.com<\/a><\/strong> so that we can provide handy solutions for you and the rest of our readers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are few things as annoying as a program that&#8217;s easy to install, but almost impossible to remove from your computer. One of them is Windows Live Messenger, which comes preinstalled with Windows Vista and can get a bit stubborn when trying to get rid of it. One of our readers, Jean, had this problem &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/ask-onsoftware-uninstall-windows-live-messenger\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ask OnSoftware: Uninstall Windows Live Messenger&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2884],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-9218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionwindows-live-messenger"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335364,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9218\/revisions\/335364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9218"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=9218"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=9218"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=9218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}