Shoutbox

Hi,

Looking at the registries I found these:

CachedPolicy
CachedPolicy0

Are those to go as well or just the previously mentioned which, if I recall correctly, is "Policies"

I am currently using Windows Live Messenger 8.0

Thanks for the help in advance!

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Originally posted by GraceB
Hi,

Looking at the registries I found these:

CachedPolicy
CachedPolicy0

Are those to go as well or just the previously mentioned which, if I recall correctly, is "Policies"

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No.

"CachedPolicy", "CachedPolicy0", etc are key values, like "BrowserWindowRect" for example.

They are not subkeys as mentionned in my post. A subkey is a subdirectory if you wish from the main key, not a file in that directory.

Removing those subkeys I mentionned ("Policies" or "Shared") should be sufficient after a Messenger restart.

Alright, thanks for clearing that up! Thought I would ask before I actually got rid of anything that would mess MSN up.

Hugs!

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Originally posted by GraceB
Alright, thanks for clearing that up! Thought I would ask before I actually got rid of anything that would mess MSN up.

Hugs!

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golden rule: always make a backup first before messing with the registry.

If you want to mess with anything under the HKCU\Software\Microsoft\MSNMessenger key for example, then export that registry key (and thus all its subkeys) to a file. If you then screw up you can always completely remove that key and import that file again.

PS: don't do this with important system keys though... screwing those up might render your OS useless (so you even can't re-import a backup)

It never worked for me! And when i tried your link it didnt run anything

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Originally posted by Crowndefender
It never worked for me! And when i tried your link it didnt run anything

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Right click the link, and press 'Save target as'. Save it to your desktop and then double click it and see how that goes

Still the same

Ran it ok but the problem is still there


QUICK EDIT:

ITS FIXED. BRILLIANT!


Thank you very much for your help!

Also make sure you've exited Messenger and restarted it. Otherwise I'm out of ideas I'm afraid

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Originally posted by Crowndefender
Still the same

Ran it ok but the problem is still there

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Did you restart messenger after running the file?

Edit : Made a script to run the reg file .

DOWNLOAD

Usage :

• Click on the Plus! Icon in contact list
  
• Navigate to "Contacts Problem Solver"
  
• Chose "Solve Contacts Problem"

I know it won't work for the sign-in error codes as you need to be sign-ed it see scripts menu . Or should i make it to clean reg when Messenger starts?

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Originally posted by -!Felu!-
Edit : Made a script to run the reg file .

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In all fairness, that script is rather seriously more difficult to run than an already-by-default-reconized-and-executable registry file...

If people can't download a reg file and double click on it after downloading, I doubt they can install a script which requires much more steps (and programs) to run.

(and it wont fix the sign in errors, as you've said.... (in fact, people wont be able to even import the script in that case)



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because this thread is getting way too long again (without any usefull additions):

click this link for proper instructions and explanation of the error.

Read carefully the instructions and follow-up posts before replying to this thread that it doesn't work. It has already been said many times that this fix is only for specific errors and may not work for you. But if it doesn't work, make sure you followed the instructions (eg: restarting messenger, etc).