WLM on Vista RTM

Hi,

Installed vista today. Ran the install of WLM 8.0 which went fine.
Problem is it won't connect... tried all the usual troubleshooting, disabled
the firewall, etc.
It works on another PC though (XP) so not sure what to do next.

Any idea?! my wife would make me go backto XP as she has to talk to her
sister everyday...

Same problem here. My office has 30+ XP users who have no problem signing in
to Messenger. But the two Vista users (myself and one other) cannot sign in.
We have also disabled the local firewalls on the PC. I suspect that
something has changed in the way that Vista communicates with our router
(uPnP or something) and we need to re-configure the router but I don't know
what to change yet.

"NC" <> wrote in message
news:F9C2F62A-24A5-438A-9354-...
> Hi,
>
> Installed vista today. Ran the install of WLM 8.0 which went fine.
> Problem is it won't connect... tried all the usual troubleshooting,
> disabled the firewall, etc.
> It works on another PC though (XP) so not sure what to do next.
>
> Any idea?! my wife would make me go backto XP as she has to talk to her
> sister everyday...

Hi NC,
I found the procedure below in another group, and it solved my problem with
Vista and Live Messenger. Apparently Vista's "auto-tuning" networking
feature doesn't play nice with some routers. Not sure if it is a bug in
Vista, a bug in Messenger or a bug in the router firmware but anyway this
looks like a possible workaround that might help other people who have the
same problem. BTW I have a NetGear DG834

Try this:
- Click start
- Type: cmd
- Right-click cmd.exe when it appears under Applications
- Click Run As Administrator
- Type the following: netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled
- Press enter
- Restart your computer

To check autotuning is disabled repeat the above but type: netsh int tcp
show global

"NC" <> wrote in message
news:F9C2F62A-24A5-438A-9354-...
> Hi,
>
> Installed vista today. Ran the install of WLM 8.0 which went fine.
> Problem is it won't connect... tried all the usual troubleshooting,
> disabled the firewall, etc.
> It works on another PC though (XP) so not sure what to do next.
>
> Any idea?! my wife would make me go backto XP as she has to talk to her
> sister everyday...