Thursday, 9 August 2012

How to get MSN messenger to work again

Follow these steps again to get windows live messenger working again when one of your contacts has switched to the new outlook.com or hotmail.co.uk domain.

Start, Run..., tsKill msnmsgr

Then log on via Hotmail.com on the web and sign into web messenger, then delete all references to your friend from your Hotmail messenger contacts, then enter this in your hosts file

Start, run… , notepad %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

Enter this…

127.0.0.1 messenger.hotmail.com

Then delete this folder here

C:\Users\MyUserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live\Contacts

Then restart msnmgr.exe - C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Live\Messenger\msnmsgr.exe

Now add back your friend that you removed from your contacts using their new sign in address

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