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Re: Windows Live Messenger 8.1 80048820 error on Vista

 
 
Mike Hall - MS MVP
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      03-03-2007
Colin

There are some helpful suggestions from Jonathon Kay regarding this error
code..

http://forumz.tomshardware.com/softw...pict95438.html


"Colin Jones" <> wrote in message
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>I have just got a new PC with Windows Vista on and have installed WLM
> 8.1 - however every time I try to sign in it fails with an error
> 80048820.
>
> I have checked firewall (even turned it off), and it makes no
> difference.
>
> When you click 'Troubleshoot' it fails at the first one and says "Your
> machine appears to have an invalid IP address", however the internet
> connection etc is working fine for everything else (browsing etc).
>
> Running IP Config gives...
> PPP adapter Speedtouch Broadband:
> Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
> IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 84.65.151.49
> Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255
> Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 0.0.0.0
> This is a USB modem.
>
> I followed the help steps here:
> http://help.live.com/EN_US/HelpWindo...Us=&v4=DH_FREE
>
> But none of them corrected it - the last section was strange as
> several of the DLL's would not register, for example:
>
> "The module "wintrust.dll" was loaded but the call to
> DllRegisterServer failed with error code 0x80070005"
>
> Tried uninstalling WLM and then reinstalling to no avail.
>
> Tried deleting the registry keys for WLM and Windows Messenger but no
> difference.
>
> Strange thing was when I *first* installed it it did work for a little
> while, but after using the PC for a while and restarting it stopped
> and now just will not connect.
>
> Help!
>


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