<div dir="auto">You do not have to have Pidgin start when you boot, at some point you either made the choice or left a default option. You should be able to change this is settings or options. I have never enabled it to start automatically, I use multiple computers and did not want it installed on some, so I used the Portable Apps version on a thumb drive for those. That did not start automatically either. I also had no problems uninstalling and wiping the drive space when I was passing along a system.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Lately I have tended to use more and more Portable Apps on a thumb drive just for convenience.<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">sent from my Galaxy S9<br>919-357-0863</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 18:13 David Woolley <<a href="mailto:forums@david-woolley.me.uk">forums@david-woolley.me.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I'm not in a position to verify this, but the first thing I would try is <br>
the standard messenger application technique of using the system tray <br>
menu to close it down.<br>
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If that doesn't work, try starting Windows in Safe Mode.<br>
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If that doesn't work, kill it with task manager.<br>
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On 17/09/2019 22:28, Dave Rice wrote:<br>
> Please send me uninstall instructions.<br>
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> The typical Microsoft uninstall program cannot remove pidgin unless the <br>
> program is not running. How can I startup my computer without starting <br>
> pidgin ?<br>
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