Wednesday, March 22, 2006

How to Install/Uninstall Net Meeting

For all those who don't know Windows XP has a messenger like powerful tool called Netmeeting which can be used for anything from chatting to file sharing across a network. It is not enabled by enabled by default.
For enabling it
Start>Run
conf.exe

You can uninstall/reintall netmeeting by this method
To remove: Start/Run/RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection C:\WINDOWS\inf\msnetmtg.inf,NetMtg.Remove
To reinstall: To reinstall, open the Windows\Inf folder ,this is a hidden folder, so you may need to adjust your Folder Options to show hidden files and folders. Or you can click Start, Run and enter %systemroot%\Inf. Locate the msnetmtg.inf file in the Inf folder. Right click and select Install. You may have to insert Windows XP CDROM.

To clear Netmeeting Call history
Start>Run
Type regedit
This opens the registry editor
Browse to the following key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Conferencing\UI\CallMRU
Delete the key. Restart netmeeting to changes to take effect.

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