More Messenger Mayhem!

I reinstalled XP today which is something I’d been meaning to do for a long time because there is only so much crap that defrag tools can move around and registry cleaners can “clean”.  After successfully installing XP SP3 and Messenger (which is a job in itself – see here), I ran Messenger and was amazed at the amount of clutter in the interface with tabs and adverts everywhere.

A quick search on Google came up with http://www.mess.be and they host an online java patch which effectively hacks messenger to remove all of the advertising! It’s called Mess Patch Lite and can be found at http://www.mess.be. Well worth a try.

Honest Customer Service!

I recently complained to my ISP that the router I was sent as part of the connection setup was quite frankly – crap and the one I bought myself was much more stable. Their response:

Thank you for your update. Your router is a higher category router and itis normal to provide more reliable connection. Even we send you a new BeBox, most probably it will perform the same way. Regards, **** Be*team

I guess at least they are honest!

SanDisk Cruzer U3 Utility Removal

A great article for removing the built-in U3 software supplied with SanDisk’s Cruzer Micro line of USB memory sticks: http://www.blogtext.org/andy/article/7287.html