Unable to sign in to Windows Messenger

[Rob Brown]

I get the following error:

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Windows Messenger
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Signing in to .NET Messenger Service failed because the service is
temporarily unavailable. Please try again later.

Click the Help button to check the current .NET Service status.
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Retry Cancel Help
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I tried the recommendations you gave to Natalie on 7/24/01 11:11 AM, but to
no avail. Any other suggestions? I am behind a corporate firewall, but our
sysadmin says that there have been no changes since April.

Thanks

Rob Brown

 

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Greetings Rob,

I'm afraid I don't really have any other suggestions besides what I told Nataile, however,
did you recently upgrade your Windows Messenger to a new version? If so, newer versions have
a slightly different way of logging in, which your corporate network might not particularly
support -- you might try downgrading (simply by using System Restore -- Start, Help &
Support, 'Undo changes to my computer using System Restore') to a previous version to see if
that solves the problem.
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Jonathan Kay
Windows MVP, Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com