Windows live messenger

Resurrection · Ballast Boy Joined: 08 Jun 2006 Karma :

Ahh somebody help!

Its not been working for weeks but ive not really been here so its not bothered me.

It's saying my firewall may be blocking it but the windows one wasn't even turned on but it was allowing messenger anyway!

I've tried re installing and alsorts but i cant sign in.

Help!

Cheers

Res
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T1z3R · World Chat Champion Joined: 23 Oct 2005 Karma :

do you get any error codes if you run the troubleshooting?
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Resurrection · Ballast Boy Joined: 08 Jun 2006 Karma :

Yeah i get: 80048820

and extended code error: 8004840f

Also when i run trouble shooting its saying IE cannot connect to the net.

I use FF

Res
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T1z3R · World Chat Champion Joined: 23 Oct 2005 Karma :

MSN uses the same settings that are found in the network settings of IE. check in there to see whats up. if you get IE connecting the MSN will too.
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Resurrection · Ballast Boy Joined: 08 Jun 2006 Karma :

Yeah thanks sorted it.

Goddam proxy!

Cheers

Res
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Jaloopa · Brolly Dolly Joined: 14 Sep 2007 Karma :

I once had a toolbar installed in IE that tried to connect to the internet every time you used it. Not a major problem in a browser but it also installed itself in Windows Explorer and tried to connect every time I opened, for example, My Computer.

I was on dialup at the time, so when I was offline it was usually because I needed the phone line, or just wasn't using the internet so wanted to be able to receive calls. The only way to stop the connection window coming up every time I opened a folder was to tell Explorer to work offline. All well and good, and since I used firefox at the time it didn't affect anything. Until I wanted to use messenger. If I wanted to sign in I needed to open IE, turn off the "Work offline" option and close it again, which let me use Messenger. Then when I was offline again and opened a folder I had to go through the rigmarole of changing the settings again.

Anyway, sorry to derail, the short form of this post would be "IE sucks. Windows Live Messenger sucks"
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