I use windows 8 and every time I start my laptop up the messenger opens and drives me insane. All the other people who have asked this were told to go to control panel>programs>remove programs>windows live messenger. But that doesn't help me any because I already knew that, and it doesn't work. Windows live messenger isn't even on the list of programs at all, so I can't uninstall it. 

..And PLEASE don't give me the answer 'get a desktop, laptops suck' because I've heard it a hundred times and that isn't even helpful.