I was having the exact same problem and did all the same things.. Its been
two days, and basically I was ready to go insane.. but I looked back at some
other people that had the same problem. All I did was reset my router and
bingo, it was all good again..

good luck.
"Albert Lo" wrote:
> i installed msn live messenger 8.1 in to my laptop window xp a week ago and
> everything was working fine. One daych msn live just wont open ... clicking
> on the icon was furtile and nothing appear but checking on the task manager
> in the process tab, there are multiple msnmsgr.exe running. I tried to
> uninstall and reinstall but doesnt it resolve anything. I check my firewall
> but msn live is an approved program i disable my router firewall, and i also
> try rebooting my router, msn just wont open. i really appreciate any sort of
> assistance anyone can provivde. thanks in advance.