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"miss kitty" <misskitty@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> "WTC" wrote:
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>> "miss kitty" <miss kitty@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:238E9E93-A8ED-4352-881D-F83DC99DF4A5@microsoft.com...
>> >A few months ago I cancelled my Yahoo account and Yahoo messenger and
>> >then
>> >I
>> > went to Add or Remove Programs and uninstalled everything from Yahoo.
>> > The
>> > problem is that in my taskbar there remains the little gray face that
>> > was
>> > part of Yahoo messenger and when I click on it a box appears saying
>> > CoCreateInstance for the My Yahoo DLL failed. How do I get rid of it?
>>
>>
>> Download Autoruns from Sysinternals and run the program, then you should
>> be
>> able to find a Yahoo messenger reference. You then can uncheck the
>> start-up
>> entry. This should solve your problem.
>>
>> Autoruns
>>
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Autoruns.html
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>I went and did as you said and I was able to delete other things from Yahoo
> except when I went to delete the messenger a box appeared saying" error
> changing item state: the system cannot find the file" then when I closed
> it
> another box appeared saying "eror deleting start setting: the system
> cannot
> find the file specified" What's that mean? I actually reinstalled
> messenger
> yesterday and then uninstalled and the face is gone but now I'm wondering
> what these errors mean.
There was a left over Start-up entry and Autoruns could not find the file in
the location it was pointing too because you uninstalled Yahoo messenger. I
wouldn't worry about the error now, since you successfully installed and
uninstalled Yahoo messenger.
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William