Help!!!!!!! Please? Messenger problem....

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Help!!!!!!! Please? Messenger problem....

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Hi all me again :roll:

I've got the internet on here at the hotel I'm staying at, but my MSN doesn't want to work. At home I'm usually on a wireless connection (I have disabled it on my laptop) and here I am having to use an ethernet cable.

When I try and sign in, I am getting the error code as per below....
We were unable to sign you into Windows Live Messenger at this time. Please try again later.

Error code: 80048820
Extended error code: 80048439
I have Googled the error codes, and done a few things like re-registering the dll files... Now I'm getting the same suggestions for each hit I visit.

Any tips from our trusty WARSUG IT legends? :D
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Post by Ludacris »

My guess would be a firewall problem...
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Thanks Ludi. That's what I was thinking too. So it would have to be the hotel's firewall, not mine as I've never had an issue running it until now :?
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BUMP :lol:

Do I sound desperate yet? :smt024 :lol:
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Click Start, and then click Run.
In the Open box, type regsvr32 softpub.dll and then click OK.
Restart MSN Messenger.
Then turn off your computer and turn it back on!!!
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And if it just won't work no matter what you try, then WebMessenger might get you out of a fix ...

http://webmessenger.msn.com/
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Cheers again Ludi. Didn't work and I did it twice to make sure. Have to take Doug's suggestion and go web based. Bugger!

Thanks anyhows :P
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Instead of web messenger, you could use Trillian, which is a program which works with MSN messenger, AOL, Yahoo etc.

http://www.trillian.cc
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yeah but if they've blocked msn they've probably blocked trillian
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Yep I'm a big fan of Trillian myself :)

But Web Messenger's good for those times when the PC isn't yours, or you can't install extra stuff for whatever reason.
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