Unable to Send/Recieve messages

My sister's Live Messenger (V. 8.1) suddenly stopped being able to send
and/or recieve messages.
Whenever I try to, it changes from her screenname to the sign in email
address and it doesn't go through.

She tried uninstalling and reinstalling and had no results. She even tried
installing an older version, but no change. One more uninstal and reinstall
of the newest version, and she's now suddenly able to send and recieve my
messages, but no one else's. And I still have the same thing happening with
her screenname changing over.

She did reboot her computer several times in the uninstall and installing
process, and her messenger was working fine yesterday.

Any clues what to do or what's going on?

This is happening to my best friend as well. It started with my name changing
last night and then today it is as if there is any pause in the conversation,
I can't see her messages and she can't see mine. It stays that way until I
message her again and then we can "see" each other. it is REALLY annoying and
would like to know how to fix this! She has the same version your sister has.

Someone please help! This is driving me nuts lol

"D_Angie" wrote:

> My sister's Live Messenger (V. 8.1) suddenly stopped being able to send
> and/or recieve messages.
> Whenever I try to, it changes from her screenname to the sign in email
> address and it doesn't go through.
>
> She tried uninstalling and reinstalling and had no results. She even tried
> installing an older version, but no change. One more uninstal and reinstall
> of the newest version, and she's now suddenly able to send and recieve my
> messages, but no one else's. And I still have the same thing happening with
> her screenname changing over.
>
> She did reboot her computer several times in the uninstall and installing
> process, and her messenger was working fine yesterday.
>
> Any clues what to do or what's going on?

Same here in Belgium; Hasselt

I'm on Msn messenger 7.0 (!!) since I prefer using win 2K.
SInce yesterday/today, I've been having the exact same problems as mentioned
above.

The whole e-mail adress instead of screen name, and not receiving anything,
only when I've started a conversation first etc..

Strange thing is, that a pc in the same network, running msn live on win xp,
doesn't have this problem.

Also, I don't know if this is relevant, but I don't have a hotmail e-mail
adress, and have always used my yahoo e-mail.. (!!!!)

I've got no clue what's going on, I really need this fixed soon. I need msn
for my exams

Grtz

K.

"D_Angie" wrote:

> My sister's Live Messenger (V. 8.1) suddenly stopped being able to send
> and/or recieve messages.
> Whenever I try to, it changes from her screenname to the sign in email
> address and it doesn't go through.
>
> She tried uninstalling and reinstalling and had no results. She even tried
> installing an older version, but no change. One more uninstal and reinstall
> of the newest version, and she's now suddenly able to send and recieve my
> messages, but no one else's. And I still have the same thing happening with
> her screenname changing over.
>
> She did reboot her computer several times in the uninstall and installing
> process, and her messenger was working fine yesterday.
>
> Any clues what to do or what's going on?

Oh, and btw, I can send messages, but can't receive them half of time. my
situation is identical to Anna25.


"Anna25" wrote:

> This is happening to my best friend as well. It started with my name changing
> last night and then today it is as if there is any pause in the conversation,
> I can't see her messages and she can't see mine. It stays that way until I
> message her again and then we can "see" each other. it is REALLY annoying and
> would like to know how to fix this! She has the same version your sister has.
>
> Someone please help! This is driving me nuts lol
>
> "D_Angie" wrote:
>
> > My sister's Live Messenger (V. 8.1) suddenly stopped being able to send
> > and/or recieve messages.
> > Whenever I try to, it changes from her screenname to the sign in email
> > address and it doesn't go through.
> >
> > She tried uninstalling and reinstalling and had no results. She even tried
> > installing an older version, but no change. One more uninstal and reinstall
> > of the newest version, and she's now suddenly able to send and recieve my
> > messages, but no one else's. And I still have the same thing happening with
> > her screenname changing over.
> >
> > She did reboot her computer several times in the uninstall and installing
> > process, and her messenger was working fine yesterday.
> >
> > Any clues what to do or what's going on?

Well my friend can't start a conversation with me! I have to start it. And
every now and then she gets a message saying some parts of this conversation
is unavailable.

And she is running XP. And she does have a hotmail account. This is just
odd. Hopefully since it seems to be widespread we can have an answer soon!!

"Rven" wrote:

> Same here in Belgium; Hasselt
>
> I'm on Msn messenger 7.0 (!!) since I prefer using win 2K.
> SInce yesterday/today, I've been having the exact same problems as mentioned
> above.
>
> The whole e-mail adress instead of screen name, and not receiving anything,
> only when I've started a conversation first etc..
>
> Strange thing is, that a pc in the same network, running msn live on win xp,
> doesn't have this problem.
>
> Also, I don't know if this is relevant, but I don't have a hotmail e-mail
> adress, and have always used my yahoo e-mail.. (!!!!)
>
> I've got no clue what's going on, I really need this fixed soon. I need msn
> for my exams
>
> Grtz
>
> K.
>
> "D_Angie" wrote:
>
> > My sister's Live Messenger (V. 8.1) suddenly stopped being able to send
> > and/or recieve messages.
> > Whenever I try to, it changes from her screenname to the sign in email
> > address and it doesn't go through.
> >
> > She tried uninstalling and reinstalling and had no results. She even tried
> > installing an older version, but no change. One more uninstal and reinstall
> > of the newest version, and she's now suddenly able to send and recieve my
> > messages, but no one else's. And I still have the same thing happening with
> > her screenname changing over.
> >
> > She did reboot her computer several times in the uninstall and installing
> > process, and her messenger was working fine yesterday.
> >
> > Any clues what to do or what's going on?

Ok, small update; I'm only having trouble with receiving apparantly.

It seems that when I start the conversation, the other person can also
answer me (aka, I can receive). But sometimes, even that doesn't work.

I wonder if this is due to a specific server malfunction or something.
Strange since my brother in the room next to me can send/receive (allthough
he has Xp & Live msn)

"Anna25" wrote:

> Well my friend can't start a conversation with me! I have to start it. And
> every now and then she gets a message saying some parts of this conversation
> is unavailable.
>
> And she is running XP. And she does have a hotmail account. This is just
> odd. Hopefully since it seems to be widespread we can have an answer soon!!
>
> "Rven" wrote:
>
> > Same here in Belgium; Hasselt
> >
> > I'm on Msn messenger 7.0 (!!) since I prefer using win 2K.
> > SInce yesterday/today, I've been having the exact same problems as mentioned
> > above.
> >
> > The whole e-mail adress instead of screen name, and not receiving anything,
> > only when I've started a conversation first etc..
> >
> > Strange thing is, that a pc in the same network, running msn live on win xp,
> > doesn't have this problem.
> >
> > Also, I don't know if this is relevant, but I don't have a hotmail e-mail
> > adress, and have always used my yahoo e-mail.. (!!!!)
> >
> > I've got no clue what's going on, I really need this fixed soon. I need msn
> > for my exams
> >
> > Grtz
> >
> > K.
> >
> > "D_Angie" wrote:
> >
> > > My sister's Live Messenger (V. 8.1) suddenly stopped being able to send
> > > and/or recieve messages.
> > > Whenever I try to, it changes from her screenname to the sign in email
> > > address and it doesn't go through.
> > >
> > > She tried uninstalling and reinstalling and had no results. She even tried
> > > installing an older version, but no change. One more uninstal and reinstall
> > > of the newest version, and she's now suddenly able to send and recieve my
> > > messages, but no one else's. And I still have the same thing happening with
> > > her screenname changing over.
> > >
> > > She did reboot her computer several times in the uninstall and installing
> > > process, and her messenger was working fine yesterday.
> > >
> > > Any clues what to do or what's going on?

I'm having the same problem, i am able to chat with just a few of my contacts
that are online. However with my sister that is sitting next to me on her
laptop- we are both online and can see each other some of the time(when i log
off and come back on 50% of the time it shows her as offline even though i
see she's online cuz she's sitting next to me), but when we sent a msg to
each other nothing pops up on the other's screen. Nothing happens.I've also
tried to delete her off my list and me off of hers and now it's gotten to a
point where we aren't on each other's list even the regular contact and when
i try to re-add her it says she's been added and can't be duplicated... I've
tried to un-install and reinstall Windows Live Messanger (8.1) I'm running it
on win XP...I've also rebooted both computers involved lot's of times, i've
even ran a spyware program to make sure it's not a bug that is on the
system... and haven't ever had any problems before. If anyone can help...let
me know...

"D_Angie" wrote:

> My sister's Live Messenger (V. 8.1) suddenly stopped being able to send
> and/or recieve messages.
> Whenever I try to, it changes from her screenname to the sign in email
> address and it doesn't go through.
>
> She tried uninstalling and reinstalling and had no results. She even tried
> installing an older version, but no change. One more uninstal and reinstall
> of the newest version, and she's now suddenly able to send and recieve my
> messages, but no one else's. And I still have the same thing happening with
> her screenname changing over.
>
> She did reboot her computer several times in the uninstall and installing
> process, and her messenger was working fine yesterday.
>
> Any clues what to do or what's going on?

In my messenger log, the same lines keep popping up:
Dunno if it's related.

Ugh, I just hope this problem goes away in the morning or something.. :s

WSAAsyncSelect for socket = 2564, error = 0, event = FD_READ
[23:13:33.796] HmProt Recv 0x0185b4a8>QNG 43<
[23:13:33.796] HmProt PNG to QNG millisecond response time is 187
[23:14:16.796] HmProt Sent 0x0185b4a8>PNG<
[23:14:16.968] Net CTCPNetworkLayer::OnMessage (2) >> Got
WM_WSASELECT_MESSAGE(1055) from WSAAsyncSelect for socket = 2564, error = 0,
event = FD_READ
[23:14:16.968] HmProt Recv 0x0185b4a8>QNG 44<
[23:14:16.968] HmProt PNG to QNG millisecond response time is 172
[23:15:00.968] HmProt Sent 0x0185b4a8>PNG<
[23:15:01.140] Net CTCPNetworkLayer::OnMessage (2) >> Got
WM_WSASELECT_MESSAGE(1055) from

etc..

"daniela" wrote:

> I'm having the same problem, i am able to chat with just a few of my contacts
> that are online. However with my sister that is sitting next to me on her
> laptop- we are both online and can see each other some of the time(when i log
> off and come back on 50% of the time it shows her as offline even though i
> see she's online cuz she's sitting next to me), but when we sent a msg to
> each other nothing pops up on the other's screen. Nothing happens.I've also
> tried to delete her off my list and me off of hers and now it's gotten to a
> point where we aren't on each other's list even the regular contact and when
> i try to re-add her it says she's been added and can't be duplicated... I've
> tried to un-install and reinstall Windows Live Messanger (8.1) I'm running it
> on win XP...I've also rebooted both computers involved lot's of times, i've
> even ran a spyware program to make sure it's not a bug that is on the
> system... and haven't ever had any problems before. If anyone can help...let
> me know...
>
> "D_Angie" wrote:
>
> > My sister's Live Messenger (V. 8.1) suddenly stopped being able to send
> > and/or recieve messages.
> > Whenever I try to, it changes from her screenname to the sign in email
> > address and it doesn't go through.
> >
> > She tried uninstalling and reinstalling and had no results. She even tried
> > installing an older version, but no change. One more uninstal and reinstall
> > of the newest version, and she's now suddenly able to send and recieve my
> > messages, but no one else's. And I still have the same thing happening with
> > her screenname changing over.
> >
> > She did reboot her computer several times in the uninstall and installing
> > process, and her messenger was working fine yesterday.
> >
> > Any clues what to do or what's going on?

Hi,

Looking into it, I haven't heard of any other problems today though. Although I'm hesitant
to declare this a client problem given what you've all indicated in the thread.

--
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) 2007 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
--

"daniela" <> wrote in message
news:938D2C73-64B1-4D7F-9D74-...
> I'm having the same problem, i am able to chat with just a few of my contacts
> that are online. However with my sister that is sitting next to me on her
> laptop- we are both online and can see each other some of the time(when i log
> off and come back on 50% of the time it shows her as offline even though i
> see she's online cuz she's sitting next to me), but when we sent a msg to
> each other nothing pops up on the other's screen. Nothing happens.I've also
> tried to delete her off my list and me off of hers and now it's gotten to a
> point where we aren't on each other's list even the regular contact and when
> i try to re-add her it says she's been added and can't be duplicated... I've
> tried to un-install and reinstall Windows Live Messanger (8.1) I'm running it
> on win XP...I've also rebooted both computers involved lot's of times, i've
> even ran a spyware program to make sure it's not a bug that is on the
> system... and haven't ever had any problems before. If anyone can help...let
> me know...
>
> "D_Angie" wrote:
>
>> My sister's Live Messenger (V. 8.1) suddenly stopped being able to send
>> and/or recieve messages.
>> Whenever I try to, it changes from her screenname to the sign in email
>> address and it doesn't go through.
>>
>> She tried uninstalling and reinstalling and had no results. She even tried
>> installing an older version, but no change. One more uninstal and reinstall
>> of the newest version, and she's now suddenly able to send and recieve my
>> messages, but no one else's. And I still have the same thing happening with
>> her screenname changing over.
>>
>> She did reboot her computer several times in the uninstall and installing
>> process, and her messenger was working fine yesterday.
>>
>> Any clues what to do or what's going on?

Thanks Jonathan! If you need any other info I can get that from my friend as
well.

"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Looking into it, I haven't heard of any other problems today though. Although I'm hesitant
> to declare this a client problem given what you've all indicated in the thread.
>
> --
> 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) 2007 Jonathan Kay.
> You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
> --
>
> "daniela" <> wrote in message
> news:938D2C73-64B1-4D7F-9D74-...
> > I'm having the same problem, i am able to chat with just a few of my contacts
> > that are online. However with my sister that is sitting next to me on her
> > laptop- we are both online and can see each other some of the time(when i log
> > off and come back on 50% of the time it shows her as offline even though i
> > see she's online cuz she's sitting next to me), but when we sent a msg to
> > each other nothing pops up on the other's screen. Nothing happens.I've also
> > tried to delete her off my list and me off of hers and now it's gotten to a
> > point where we aren't on each other's list even the regular contact and when
> > i try to re-add her it says she's been added and can't be duplicated... I've
> > tried to un-install and reinstall Windows Live Messanger (8.1) I'm running it
> > on win XP...I've also rebooted both computers involved lot's of times, i've
> > even ran a spyware program to make sure it's not a bug that is on the
> > system... and haven't ever had any problems before. If anyone can help...let
> > me know...
> >
> > "D_Angie" wrote:
> >
> >> My sister's Live Messenger (V. 8.1) suddenly stopped being able to send
> >> and/or recieve messages.
> >> Whenever I try to, it changes from her screenname to the sign in email
> >> address and it doesn't go through.
> >>
> >> She tried uninstalling and reinstalling and had no results. She even tried
> >> installing an older version, but no change. One more uninstal and reinstall
> >> of the newest version, and she's now suddenly able to send and recieve my
> >> messages, but no one else's. And I still have the same thing happening with
> >> her screenname changing over.
> >>
> >> She did reboot her computer several times in the uninstall and installing
> >> process, and her messenger was working fine yesterday.
> >>
> >> Any clues what to do or what's going on?
>
>