Hello i have been trying to get help for the past 5 days or so from various sites but no one has came up with a soloution that will fix my msn. I am not sure if it is my computer or msn itself. Whatever i try it doesn’t work the only way i can think of to fix the problem is by reformatting but i really can’t be arsed to do that because of msn ill just have to use windows messenger which is shocking and very very crap.

Msn sometimes signs in and other times it doesn’t at all. Most of the time it won’t and the msn icon just keeps spinning round and round. Some times i’ll get error messages such as ‘unable to start a conversation with *contact*’ but other than that i don’t recieve any other messages msn just stops signing in so i have to re-click sign in, Again! I don’t get it, all the previous versions worked fine but this one is a bugger. Firewall allows msnmsgr.exe through, i have even disabled it and msn still wont sign in so its not the firewall.

Please help im really stuck, thanks!

Nick

I have precisely the same problem. Except I took the drastic measure. I’ve formatted 4 times to try and alleviate all the problems, and I’ve had a number of various things happen.

The most common was signing in to find only 1 contact in my list. When I checked on another computer with MSN 6.2 on it however, I found my full list still accessable (which was a relief)

More recently, I’ve had the spinning icon issue, where it would just stay spinning forever, never fully signing in.

A variation I’ve had on this is where it seems to partially sign in. The spinning icon permanently remains, but a popup saying “You have X new emails” comes, and sometimes with “Could not connect you to conversation”

I just checked the suggestions throughout the rest of this thread, and it does seem that Zone Alarm is at least partially responsible. Turning the IM Security tab off in ZA didnt seem to work at first, but shutting the whole thing down did.

I’ll have to experiment a little more with it. There are potentially a number of other conflicts (with other anti-virus and/or firewall software) that may cause such problems.