I use Windows Live Messenger ( also known as MSN Live Messenger ) often for instant messaging. The other day I got the “80072efd” error.
Luckily, I found a few things you need to check to get MSN Live Messenger working again:
- Make sure your firewall does not block MSN Messenger
- Make sure your Windows is updated
If you checked the above things, this is a method you can try to solve the problem:
- Go to Start, and click on “Run”.
- Type cmd and press enter.
- A black screen with white letters will open. Typ in the following: ipconfig /flushdns
- Press enter
- Type exit and press enter
- Try if Windows Live / MSN Messenger works now
If the above method does still not solve the problem, this is a last method that might solve the problem:
- Go to Start, Run
- Type in the following and press enter:
- REGSVR32 softpub.dll initpki.dll wintrust.dll
- Click OK
- Try if Windows Live / MSN Messenger works now
If Windows Live Messenger still will not work, then there is another thing you can try:
- Start Internet Explorer
- Go to the Tools menu. Click on Internet Options
- Click on the connection tab and click on LAN settings
- Uncheck / clear the the “Automatically detect settings” box
- Click on OK, and then again on OK.
- Try if Windows Live / MSN Messenger works now
I hope this will help anyone with the problem!
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