I continue to get popup messages on my friends XP system, even after disableing the process, and many others. Are XPs processed controllable cuz it seems half the stuff i disabled started themselves backup when i reboot, I disabled indexing and other crap thats not necessary and it just keeps starting backup. I used MSCONFIG and another way but i forgot cuz i dont have xp to mess with at home and i dont want it either, lol.

Install a third-party firewall - a lot of those popups may be coming over the net. If msconfig didn't take care of it, I dunno. You do get a popup message where you have to explicitly save the new boot configuration*. Make sure you're doing that or it will reset but, otherwise, the services you disable should stay disabled.

Course, you may get popups complaining about the disabled services.

* meaning you need to disable them, reboot, and then confirm that's how you want it.

Screw XP, im gonna use 98 for any new gaming systems i build. XP just seems way unnecessarily complicated. I know if i can figure out linux XP should be easy but its just not worth it. Thanks.

what are SCO and RIAA?

Yeah - that's the impression I get - most people use 98 or 98SE for gaming. XP's actually harder to figure out than Linux - not because it needs to be but just because the documentation is so poor and most of the configuration is stored in binary files and manipulated with obscure GUI tools. And there are some command line tools but they're almost completely undocumented. It sucks.

SCO is the Santa Cruz Operation - the guys trying to sue IBM and make us "register" to use "their" Linux because they pretend they own Linux.

The RIAA is the Recording Industry Association of America or something like that - the guys who buy senators to pass laws to spy on our computers and fry them if they contain mp3s or oggs.

To stop the messages in XP go to start, run, type in services.msc, then scroll down to you see a service called messenger, right click it and disable that service. once you reboot you will never get those messages again. I am new to linux, Ihad XP for a while.

What kind of popups are you getting? If it's like those ''''''''' with "UNIVERSITY DIPLOMAS" that mean you've got spywares on it...
Try searching google for adaware, a program to locate those spywares and evil cookies...
Windows security is a joke... seriously. A kid with Netbus can make damages on you and even be called hacker...lol...

I did this through "Administrative Tools/Services". Is that sufficient? We haven't seen these popups either, but have also installed ZoneAlarm since doing this so it's hard to tell for sure.

Peace...

Yes that way will work also they both take u to the same place, the way i said is supposed to be the short cut way, Those messages come through port 139 i believe so if u get a firewall and block that port u will not recieve those messages. Zonealarm blocks that port by default.

Thats just how i disabled it and I still get these popups, and i ran adaware many times before and after and it found a few things, i downloaded the newest version with the new reference file. The popups are just some sales crap.