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did you try this as suggested by felu:

Go to Window Directory > Windows > system32 > drivers > etc . After that you'll find a hosts file without an extension. Open it in a next editor like notepad. Go to the last line and put the following lines -

    65.54.239.80 messenger.hotmail.com
    65.54.239.80 dp.msnmessenger.akadns.net


Restart Messenger and you're done .

Moreover in about a day remove these so that your messenger won't cause problems when the server is up

It worked for me...

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Originally posted by Ev44
so what does deleting that registry entry do?
Im so happy now, that my msn works now

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The same as formatting your computer...

What I mean is, it isn't really a specific solution. Deleting all the registry settings of Messenger is as good as reinstalling it completely. In other words you also loose all your settings and what not.

A proper solution would have been removing the registry settings which needed to be removed/reset and nothing more.

see "CookieRevised's reply to Contacts problem" for a proper fix and explanation.

Hi, I can't sign into Live Messenger, with no error codes.. (no probs with messenger 7.5) so I did the regedit fix, and i got a 81000395 error instead. Someone help pls?

seems that begining from yesterday msn servers are unstable. getting often this error:

80072efd

Thanks again for saving the day cookie

that worked like a charm

This may be considered spam.. but i wanted to let u know that its fixed here

Yes it works fine now. I was having this problem for days and finally this forum gave me the solution. However, after I have deleted the registry, and signed in to MSN, it was resetted to the old settings.. its like a rollback..

I tried that and it didn't work. now when I click the sign in button it won't do anything.

Thanks Victoria, Your fix worked beautifully .-)
Another satisfied customer

Larry

Hey Victoria,

I tried the registry stuff but it didnt work =(
Here's the error i get:  Error Code: 80048820

Please help!!

Thanks

I have this problem and i've tried editing the registry. It still doesn't want to sign in.

Help please..

thx