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hi i have the newest versions of messenger and plus! but i cant connect..event log viewer shows events like contacts changing nicknames..does connect once in a blue moon..have tryed reinstalling both programs a few times. was working fine wen i first installed but now i dunno wats rong..i am running winXP..i can sign in using web messenger so its not my passport..i have seen error msgs saying something like cannot start convosation with %nick or sumthing similar but yea just keeps on saying signing in.. please help..thanks

I updated my Plus to 3.52 earlier, and Messenger wouldn't sign in after. However, I restarted Messenger, and then it worked without problem. I recommend you try it, just in case.

These are mainly coincidences... the Messenger servers seem to be very busy these days, just retry to connect until it works .

i just uninstalled plus! and now i can connect without a problem. ne ideas?

I'm having the same problem on both of my computers with different internet connections... It only sometimes signs on properly.  When it's unsuccessfully attempting to sign on, I notice that it does not using any internet bandwidth at all after it has been trying for a few seconds

For thoseof you who don't seem to be able to connect with Messenger Plus! running, could I know how many contacts you have in your contact list?

This may be unrelated to everyone's connection issue but I had the same problem - even after reinstalling Messenger and Plus. I also could not shut down my computer properly. In addition to the messenger and plus updates, I had also gotten updates for NIS. After uninstalling/reinstalling NIS, all my problems went away.

patchou: i have 82 contacts.

wat is 'nis' btw?

note that today i am having trouble connecting even without plus!..i dunno wt*s going on wif dis comp..webmessenger works fine thou..

NIS - Norton Internet Security
I suggest you reinstall/repair MSN 7 aswell.

Also check if you have one of these things (if MSNM won't connect with Plus! but will without Plus!):
- Handwriting plugin - not needed anymore in MSNM 7 (built in), remove handwriting.dll from plugins folder
  (C:\Program Files\MessengerPlus! 3\Plugins)
- SPNG 2.2.44 - update to latest version, http://www.stuffplug.com/ See this post.
- Smileycentral, if you use that here are the uninstall intructions.

I have 130 contacts.  I've tried logging in with MsgPlus (with and without plugins loaded), and without MsgPlus.  It couldn't log in in any of those tries...

BTW, I use ZoneAlarm Security Suite.  Also, I have tried reinstalling both MSN and MsgPlus, but it made no difference