Anyone else having trouble with MSN recently?

James0121 · Post by **James0121** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 7:10 pm

i was getting the same but it works now

ModifiedMadness · Post by **ModifiedMadness** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 7:36 pm

That's why I've stuck with 6.2, have heard a few complaints about the new versions.

dino · Post by **dino** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 7:48 pm

Nothing to report here! All is fine

ModifiedMadness · Post by **ModifiedMadness** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 8:00 pm

Well, looks like I spoke too soon, just went to check my accounts, signed into 2 after a long wait, another 2 said my contact list wasn't available and I didn't even bother with the other one, went to www.hotmail.com and signed in there instead.

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 9:27 pm

6.2 is microsofts lucky number ... their best DOS was that, their best media player (STILL i keep it installed!), and now it looks to maybe be their best messenger. Keep your fingers crossed for Vista (windows 6) SP2, as that will probably be the peak of their windows series too, everything after marking a definate decline (rather than the current slow slide into ever more pointless feature-bloating with no real functionality upgrades, it'll just get chronic).

just go back to it ... unless you regularly use the (annoying looking) picto-chat style graphical messenging, it does everything you need and little you don't.

no-one has offered me a real convincing argument to upgrade from 6.2 yet

and so it remains.

occasionally the network does suffer a hiccup and you'll get that message (i've had it from time to time) but not on what i'd call a regular or annoyingly frequent basis. usually it's brief enough that you just have to hit sign-in and type your password a second time, and it's right as rain again.

ModifiedMadness · Post by **ModifiedMadness** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 9:33 pm

That's why I've stuck with 6.2, there seems to be a lot of annoying sounding features that to me would be useless on the newer versions. All I use it for when I do is chatting, none of this exchanging on screen graphical messages etc.

Karl_CLCoupe · Post by **Karl_CLCoupe** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 3:44 pm

I had similar issues with 7.5. What I did was where it displays a link to help, click it. It will give you a guide as to how to reset some of the settings for MSN.

Having done that, I can safely say mines been running MSN 7.5 fine *touches wood*.

Karl.

mysteryboy · Post by **mysteryboy** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 4:16 pm

i get that now n then. The thing is when i try signing with another email it goes straight in so obviously the service is available, dont know why it keeps sayin its not. Msn's messing up!!

Karl_CLCoupe · Post by **Karl_CLCoupe** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 11:02 pm

It was a good while ago since I had to fiddle with it.

Basically it tells you to clear the SSL Cache, then run 3 dll files. All the info is in that help link though that pops up during trohble shooting (I think)

Karl.

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 12:10 am

i like how XP still hasnt reached proper maturity (no SP3 to fix some of the more contentious parts of sp2 ... or did i miss one?) but some things are becoming XP-only already.

didnt see that with ME, and only with 98 because of core-level hardware support issues, so why...? gahhh.

maybe im a luddite (guess you can see it in my cars as well) but the philosophy of "stick to the lowest version number you can get away with, except for antivirus programs" seems to ring true here