Depending on uid used - Ican or cannot login to Live Messenger

Hi,

I use 2 different uid's for Live Messenger.
When I try to log in with uid1 - no problem
When I try to log in with uid2 - Live Messenger gets stuck on "Bezig met
aanmelden" loosely translated as: "Trying to connect"

No error appears, and when I "Cancel" and try again with uid1 - no probblem.

In the eventlog of the computer - no events whatsoever.

Please, if anyone has an idea.

thnx, Thomas

Update:

when I try the same thing on another computer at the same location.
Everything works fine.

How can this be - are there (registry)settings I can remove or repair?

thnx, Thomas

Greetings Thomas,

Yes there are. First thing to try, shut down Messenger then download and run the following
..reg file:
http://messenger.jonathankay.com/dow...lmpolicies.reg

Then restart Messenger and try to sign in on uid2 again.

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Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2006 Jonathan Kay.
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"Thomas" <> wrote in message
news:935DEF9F-2FC4-4DFF-93C5-...
> Update:
>
> when I try the same thing on another computer at the same location.
> Everything works fine.
>
> How can this be - are there (registry)settings I can remove or repair?
>
> thnx, Thomas

I wish I had seen this when I was having the same problem. I contacted the
Windows live customer support and they adviced me to delete a file from my
registry. Unfortunatey they forgot to advice me to keep a copy of the file I
deleted. It fixed the problem with signing in with all accounts on windows
live but I haven't been able to update any Microsoft updates since then.
When I tried to upgrade to IE7, IE stopped working and the only solution I
found was to revert to previous state. I still can't update windows and am
stuck with a beta version of IE which feels like it's only partially
installed. My computer is only a few months old and I was hoping I wouldn't
have to reinstall Windows on it but it looks like that will be the only
solution.

"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote:

> Greetings Thomas,
>
> Yes there are. First thing to try, shut down Messenger then download and run the following
> .reg file:
> http://messenger.jonathankay.com/dow...lmpolicies.reg
>
> Then restart Messenger and try to sign in on uid2 again.
>
> --
> Jonathan Kay
> Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
> Associate Expert
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
> Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
> All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2006 Jonathan Kay.
> You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
> --
>
> "Thomas" <> wrote in message
> news:935DEF9F-2FC4-4DFF-93C5-...
> > Update:
> >
> > when I try the same thing on another computer at the same location.
> > Everything works fine.
> >
> > How can this be - are there (registry)settings I can remove or repair?
> >
> > thnx, Thomas
>
>