I solved this for a friend. After lots of web searching it seemed a file
was available from MS called "Contacts-ship-neutral.cab" which contains the
file "contacts.msi"
But the links all failed and eventually I found it on the Megaupload site:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1OVI33JJ
Dave
"Mike" <> wrote in message
news: dakotatelephone...
> XP Home, IE7, all updates are done. I started to not be able to sign into
> Messenger a while back. For some time I would just reboot and then could
> sign in, but now cannot sign in at all on my home computer (works fine at
> work). Have tried reregistering as per Jonathan's Dec.2009 post but no
> luck. Have run Ad-Ware, SpyBot and MalWare and scanned for viruses in
> regular and safe mode. Not sure what to do next!!
>
> Any ideas????
> Thanks
> Mike
>