Several suggestions recently made have not worked. I have unchecked auto log 
at tool>options>general tab for my two email accounts. With Win 7 start> 
opens "search" or "all programs" so I have not been able to enter msconfig 
and check the messenger. The messenger pane  ( that I do not want ) displays 
a user ID that is not one of my current two email accounts. Is there some 
way to delete this account? 

Is the user ID that is being displayed and intended for deletion .....yours ?

Regarding those suggestions that did not work...
Could you elaborate on them, since they were not included in your post ?(no one wants to reinvent the wheel unless necessary).

One has to logon to Windows Live Messenger before obtaining any options to disable its autologon with Windows feature.

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"tooh" <tooh@cox.net> wrote in message news:6DBE5158-2114-455B-8325-4E849C81BB1F@microsoft.com...
> Several suggestions recently made have not worked. I have unchecked auto log 
> at tool>options>general tab for my two email accounts. With Win 7 start> 
> opens "search" or "all programs" so I have not been able to enter msconfig 
> and check the messenger. The messenger pane  ( that I do not want ) displays 
> a user ID that is not one of my current two email accounts. Is there some 
> way to delete this account? 
>