Well anyway, after finally getting it installed etc, I now cannot sign into my account..........it tries for a few seconds then stops. A friend however can log onto his account from this computer and I have been able to log into an older account too. Any ideas whats wrong?

I think it's your listcache... Try searching for files named "listcache.dat" and delete them all.

that didn't work

any ideas anyone?

aaah
Thats not because md that have hapenned to me 3 times and i tried exactly the same and i asked a friend to log in with mine and it worked
since tday i dontunderstand that.
If anyone knows what it is reply plz.

Local Disk (C:/ usually)-->Documents and Settings-->(your current user)-->Application Data-->Microsoft -->MSN Messenger you will see a couple of folders there just delete them all and try again

it'll take some time to log in but will sign-in

All the best

that is the same thing as Millenium_edition suggested seeing as it is removing the listcache.dat files...........however i tried it and still no luck

Before deleting anything, try going to Messenger > Tools > Options > Connection and make sure "Use a proxy server" is unchecked.
BTW, those names can be different, I have the Spanish version, so I don't know what are the exact names in English.

yep thats definately unchecked..........i dont understand why i can sign in perfectly well on some accounts and not on the one i want to use

Check this thread: Cannot login to (ONLY) MSN msger on (ONLY) my laptop

yeah i have to uninstall discovery to log back in, as soon as i reinstall it, i cannot login my account at all, just i want to use discovery

btw thank you everyone for the help so far, still no luck so far though

BTW, do you have the latest Messenger and MD versions? What OS do you have?

yep, downloaded the new MD from mess.be yesterday and i have 6.2.0137 also.

I am running windows xp home edition SP2

Is it MessengerDiscovery Build 2.6.0 (2601) ??

cause as far as i knoe this was a problem with the older version of messenger discovery

if this aint your messenger discovery version download it from www.messengerdiscovery.com

yep it started after a while using the older version and its still happening with the current one which i downloaded yesterday

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Originally posted by lopardo
Before deleting anything, try going to Messenger > Tools > Options > Connection and make sure "Use a proxy server" is unchecked.
BTW, those names can be different, I have the Spanish version, so I don't know what are the exact names in English.

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Sorry, I haven't used MD for a while and I don't remember how it worked. It doesn't work at all if you disable it as a proxy? If you can't connect, then I'd try disabling the proxy first.

discovery works fine on other accounts which is what's confusing me........i cant log into my main one though. the proxy is all set up how it should be for MD also

Maybe some registry problem? Damn, I have almost no bandwidth left to download MD and test... You already tried deleting your user folder in %appdata%\Microsoft\MSN Messenger, right?

lol what are you downloading?

hehe yeah i tried that and also tried manually deleting the listcache.dat files using windows search

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Originally posted by satnam99
lol what are you downloading?

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im rather confused


any more ideas on this?

Just a suggestion, with MD running, open MSN Messenger > Tools > Options > Connection

Choose I use a proxy server
Type: SOCKS Version 4
Server: 127.0.0.1
Port: 1863

Thanks, but I made sure of that earlier and tried unchecking even though that would mean MD not connecting

But yeah, when I unchecked, I signed into my account as normal but as soon as i checked the box again and tried to reconnect, it wouldnt allow me to sign in on that account

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Originally posted by satnam99
Thanks, but I made sure of that earlier and tried unchecking even though that would mean MD not connecting

But yeah, when I unchecked, I signed into my account as normal but as soon as i checked the box again and tried to reconnect, it wouldnt allow me to sign in on that account

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I have SP2 yes and i have sygate firewall pro but its all set up to allow discovery..........i give it full access when it asks me anyways

I don't have xp firewall enabled at all