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Jim
I have been using Windows Messenger for some time now.
One day, after a fair amount of installing new programs,
uninstalling old ones, moving files around,
defragmenting, disk cleaning, etc, Windows Messenger
simply could not sign me in. I received the old "We were
unable to sign you in to .NET Messenger Service, possibly
because of a problem with the service or with your
Internet connection. Please make sure that you are
connected to the Internet."
Mind you, I WAS signed in just a few minutes before all
of this. I checked all port settings, router settings,
TCP/IP configurations, and everything checked out to be
the same as before. Fine, that is. Note that my AOL
Instant Messenger worked fine (still), as did IE,
Outlook, Weatherbug, KaZaA, and even a POP3 mail alert
application that I had written.
I tried new downloads of both Windows and MSN Messengers,
and I tried every combination of installing one,
uninstalling the other, installing both, etc, etc. I also
trie to re-install IE 6 - but funnily enough, after
opening ie6setup.exe on my computer, I received the error
that "Setup was unable to download information about
available installation sites..." That wouldn't connect
either. So no such luck there. I then downloaded Trillian
and found that it wouldn't connect to a single service
whatsoever (AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, etc). I am positive that
my router (and its built in firewall) are set up for
Windows Messenger correctly. Again, I had been using it
just minutes before.
Finally, I heard about Jonathan Kay, and I found this
forum. Seeing that several users experienced the same
problem, I became hopeful when I found his list of 8
things to "check/try". After completing every single one
of them, I still had no luck. My outlook grew dismal when
I searched and searched the forum for someone with the
same problem that I had, and only found Kay's same canned
response for each of them. That may have worked for them,
but it seems I have a different problem, necessitating a
different solution.
Perhaps something happened in the registry during all
this? Perhaps a service, on which Windows Messenger is
dependent, is not functioning properly? As an
intermediate programmer, I am not afraid of manipulating
things behind the scenes (registy, .ini files, .dlls,
UDP/TCP/IP settings, whatever) so long as I'm pointed in
the right direction before doing so.
I have just finished cleaning up my computer, organizing
all my settings/applications/files, etc, and the last
thing that I want to do is reinstall XP.
Expert help is most appreciated in this matter.
Kindest Regards,
Jim
One day, after a fair amount of installing new programs,
uninstalling old ones, moving files around,
defragmenting, disk cleaning, etc, Windows Messenger
simply could not sign me in. I received the old "We were
unable to sign you in to .NET Messenger Service, possibly
because of a problem with the service or with your
Internet connection. Please make sure that you are
connected to the Internet."
Mind you, I WAS signed in just a few minutes before all
of this. I checked all port settings, router settings,
TCP/IP configurations, and everything checked out to be
the same as before. Fine, that is. Note that my AOL
Instant Messenger worked fine (still), as did IE,
Outlook, Weatherbug, KaZaA, and even a POP3 mail alert
application that I had written.
I tried new downloads of both Windows and MSN Messengers,
and I tried every combination of installing one,
uninstalling the other, installing both, etc, etc. I also
trie to re-install IE 6 - but funnily enough, after
opening ie6setup.exe on my computer, I received the error
that "Setup was unable to download information about
available installation sites..." That wouldn't connect
either. So no such luck there. I then downloaded Trillian
and found that it wouldn't connect to a single service
whatsoever (AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, etc). I am positive that
my router (and its built in firewall) are set up for
Windows Messenger correctly. Again, I had been using it
just minutes before.
Finally, I heard about Jonathan Kay, and I found this
forum. Seeing that several users experienced the same
problem, I became hopeful when I found his list of 8
things to "check/try". After completing every single one
of them, I still had no luck. My outlook grew dismal when
I searched and searched the forum for someone with the
same problem that I had, and only found Kay's same canned
response for each of them. That may have worked for them,
but it seems I have a different problem, necessitating a
different solution.
Perhaps something happened in the registry during all
this? Perhaps a service, on which Windows Messenger is
dependent, is not functioning properly? As an
intermediate programmer, I am not afraid of manipulating
things behind the scenes (registy, .ini files, .dlls,
UDP/TCP/IP settings, whatever) so long as I'm pointed in
the right direction before doing so.
I have just finished cleaning up my computer, organizing
all my settings/applications/files, etc, and the last
thing that I want to do is reinstall XP.
Expert help is most appreciated in this matter.
Kindest Regards,
Jim