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Originally posted by Chris4
Exit Messenger and try this:
Download and run this file: Remove Messenger Settings, which was made by Jonathan Kay [MVP].
or do it yourself (advanced)...
1. Go to Start > Run
2. Type in regedit and press enter
3. Navigate to "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MSNMessenger"
4. Delete the folder called MSNMessenger
After this Windows Live Messenger will login as normal.
This fix is not specifically for the signin problems people are having lately, see below.
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Originally posted by vid_88
They've asked me to re-install and do a system restore, both of which aren't working.
Do not do a system restore!
System restore causes more harm than anything good.
The only time you can safely do a system restore to fix a program is if you made a system restore point right after you installed that program, and didn't installed anything else afterwards like Windows updates and fixes, and you didn't changed any settings in Windows.
System restore is not a magic program backup tool or fixing tool, it should only be used in critical times when Windows doesn't even run properly anymore or in severe situations like a massive virus attack or whatever.
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Originally posted by vid_88
Scratch that. I re-registered some DLL's after finding a post through google, and all seems to be going fine! 
doubtfull it had something todo with that. You needing to re-register some DLLs might well be because of your system restore, nothing more. And if you didn't do a system restore, chances are the problem would have been solved anyways as in your case it might have been a server problem (which was fixed last night). Something you can't do anything about it.
What the system restore also might have done is removing the cached handshaking policies and fixing the problem that way. But with the system restore you also introduced many other problems (the DLLs). More info, see below.
All in all, reregistering the DLLs and/or doing the system restore is not a fix for this.
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For people who have trouble signing in lately (and still can't sign in today), read:
CookieRevised's reply to Contacts problem
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