MSN Messenger problems

Since upgrading to the latest version of MSN messenger I find myself unable
to gain access to that facility when at home. When go to my friend's place I
have no problem at all using Messenger and chat.
Does anyone have an answer for this problem please???

Peter
Fri Oct 27 09:28:01 CDT 2006

You say Window Live Messenger?

"Oldslim" wrote:

> Since upgrading to the latest version of MSN messenger I find myself unable
> to gain access to that facility when at home. When go to my friend's place I
> have no problem at all using Messenger and chat.
> Does anyone have an answer for this problem please???

Galen
Fri Oct 27 09:07:39 CDT 2006

In news:B526FADC-917F-4E57-BD46-497C341E5925@microsoft.com,
Oldslim had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

> Since upgrading to the latest version of MSN messenger I find myself
> unable to gain access to that facility when at home. When go to my
> friend's place I have no problem at all using Messenger and chat.
> Does anyone have an answer for this problem please???

At home check your firewall's settings and ensure that nothing is being
blocked. Can you, while at home, still log on via Windows Messenger perhaps?
If so then go ahead and check our firewall logs. If they show that's what is
blocking it then configure your firewall to more accurately suit your needs.

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its solution is its own reward." - Sherlock Holmes

Jonathan
Fri Oct 27 10:59:21 CDT 2006

Greetings,

What's happening when you try? If the two Messenger contact icons are just spinning and
never signing you on, this is due a misconfiguration last week which caused an invalid
setting to be put into the registry.

It's easily removable however. Just shut down Messenger entirely by right-clicking on its
icon in the notification area and choosing Exit, then download and run this .reg file:
http://messenger.jonathankay.com/downloads/remove_wlmpolicies.reg

Then try signing in again.

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"Oldslim" <Oldslim@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B526FADC-917F-4E57-BD46-497C341E5925@microsoft.com...
> Since upgrading to the latest version of MSN messenger I find myself unable
> to gain access to that facility when at home. When go to my friend's place I
> have no problem at all using Messenger and chat.
> Does anyone have an answer for this problem please???