MSN Messaging

Lovingitifitsabargain

My nephew bought a laptop which is "wireless" he is unable to get onto MSN messaging - errors saying not able to connect him at this time - is able to get onto other site ok and has been trying the MSN for over a week - anyone got any ideas - has gone through the MSN trouble shooter with no joy at all 0 thanks

Redrum_2

Could be an issue with his firewall, either on the computer or on the router? I've had similar issues before, and it's turned out to be because my firewall was blocking MSN Messenger's access to the internet

You could run through the "program control" settings on his firewall to see how it's got MSN set up, or re-run the "automatic program control" (most firewalls have them) and automatically set up settings for MSN messenger

If that doesn't work, one thing I've tried before is to close down my browser and shut down all other programs that are connecting to the internet. Then switch off your firewall for 5 minutes and run MSN Messenger. It 'should' now work. Then switch your firewall back on, and if you're lucky it will pop up with a message about detecting a connection to the internet - approve this connection and all should be ok

**NOTE** switching off your firewall is potentially a risky thing to do, so make sure that no other programs are accessing the web when you do so. But in most instances it should be ok

Failing any of the above working, delete MSN Messenger from the computer and re-install it

Failing that, delete it and re-install a different version

Failing that, I dunno, switch to Yahoo, Google or ICQ???!!!

millwalll

or it could be msn is having problem or if you type your password in capital letters it comes up with a error