"Quitting M$N Messenger now to reboot Windows. See you on the other side..." [Geeky]

[vin_petrol]

Famous last words. Yesterday I logged out of Windows Live Messenger (as it appears to be these days) to reboot my work Windows XP box, which tends to get thrashed for days and days till it's getting a bit flaky and needs a reboot. After the reboot, I couldn't get back into WLM. Very odd. I called our local IT Support (after "turning it off and back on again") and they advised me to install GAIM! Now, in my experience, this is odd for corporate IT support staff, who are usually shouting at me and going "what is this evil piece of unapproved, non-standard, open source software you've installed on your Windows machine?! Uninstall it at once!" I quite happily tried GAIM, and later aMSN, and they didn't work.

It was when I tried GAIM on my Linux box and it didn't work there either I got suspicious, and when I tried M$N Messenger at home and it didn't work there either I realised that for some bizarre reason my main Passport login wasn't going to work with *any* Microsoft messaging tool, not even <http://webmessenger.msn.com/>. It seems I'm persona non grata with Microsoft :-( I wonder what I did to upset them? I've got another Passport account and that one works fine.

I'm currently working my way through the support process for this. However, I must share with you a slightly dubious looking line from the WLM log file:

[16:27:53.911] Zone_HotmailService CHotmailService::FireLocalStateChangeResult@00296D88:(BUGBUG: Whidbey link progress, 0x0100)

*cough* yes, well :-) [Yes, I have googled for this, yes, I have tried the things the links suggested, no, they didn't work.]

Comments

[ms-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Eh? *grin* - bear of little brain when it comes to these things at best of times, I may not understand the answer but what is 'gaim'?

[steer.livejournal.com]

GAIM is a cool little program that puts together all your different chat accounts into one so you can speak to people on MSN or on ICQ or on Yahoo using the same program. It's great even on windows.

[echo-echo.livejournal.com]

I can't get GAIM to work on my machine, it curls up and dies when it logs into MSN and MSN gives it a cookie.

However, I also had problems logging in to WLM yesterday anyway. Works ok today, but yesterday, it was having none of it.

[vin_petrol]

Yeh, I suspect that each user is allocated a particular server, and the server I'm on has broken. Not that M$ are actually admitting to that, of course ;-)

[fritx.livejournal.com]

Maybe they finally switched hotmail servers off *BSD and on to windoze?

WLM Login Process

[(Anonymous)]

Interesting article fron Bink on how WLM actually works

http://bink.nu/Article9168.bink

BermyPaul