Messenger 8.0 Beta (Windows Live)

[Deleted User] · 02/02/06 - 19:15

Anyone else got it? I need help lol!

Dickibobboy · 02/02/06 - 20:16

me and loads of us

Dickibobboy · 02/02/06 - 20:16

whats the problem?

[Deleted User] · 02/02/06 - 20:29

firstly i got it then whenever i tried to talk it says "Windows messenger has encountered a problem and needs to close" everytime! Then when i tried to register again, when i tried to sign in it says "bad URL try again" so I do and it still doesnt work!

Anyone help??!!

KIIS102 · 02/02/06 - 20:34

tried uninstalling WLM and reinstalling it ?

[Deleted User] · 02/02/06 - 20:37

i also have a problem. my problem is that apparently there are new feature under 'activities' which are 'music mix' and 'mimic' however i cannot acces any of these.

does anybody have any suggestions??

all help appreciated

[Deleted User] · 02/02/06 - 20:53

http://wlm.scottisafool.co.uk/question17.htm

That any help?

[Deleted User] · 02/02/06 - 21:08

nope sorry that site didn't work for me

thanks anyway.

mpmc17 · 02/02/06 - 22:42

Sussex Freeview wrote:

i also have a problem. my problem is that apparently there are new feature under 'activities' which are 'music mix' and 'mimic' however i cannot acces any of these.

does anybody have any suggestions??

all help appreciated

Let me Guess, You get 403 (Auth required) ?

If you do, What you need to is sign in to www.passport.net

then get your contact to send you the activity invite.. (if they get the Auth problem they need to resign-in aswell. (Do not use firefox, it reads IE's cookies...)

you need to do this a couple of times..

It's caused by a bug in the ASPX code... (it doesn't check the cookie correctly) So you have to re request your Tweener(Long Auth code used by MSN( So it refreshes it...

Sorry, I write MSN Bots...

alanwarwic · 02/02/06 - 22:55

that mean if u delete the cookies it works again?

mpmc17 · 02/02/06 - 23:09

alanwarwic wrote:

that mean if u delete the cookies it works again?

you could try that...

coopermanyorks · 02/02/06 - 23:17

Hi

Is this still only available through invitations ?

mpmc17 · 02/02/06 - 23:20

coopermanyorks wrote:

Hi

Is this still only available through invitations ?

Yes, I'm afraid....

Although I have 7 invites

neo6776 · 02/02/06 - 23:21

i found i had problems when i first installed it as well.

So i had to delete the old msn 7.5 and ALL folders to do with it thus losing all my custom emoticons etc..

it worked a treat.

if you want to do this then go to my computer then paste in this:- C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR COMPUTER NAME HERE\Application Data

Then look for the microsoft folder, double click that, then look for the MSN messenger folder and delete it.

then reinstall WLM 8.0 and all will be well.

Hope that helps

coopermanyorks · 02/02/06 - 23:24

Hi

I meant has the op got beta 8 through an invite or just downloaded it from the web ?

http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/showthread.php?t=325105

I downloaded it from an invite onto my computer then I logged out my son tried to log into version 8 and it wouldnt let him as he passport / email address had not had the invite , so wouldnt work

[Deleted User] · 02/02/06 - 23:47

mpmc17 wrote:

Yes, I'm afraid....

Although I have 7 invites

pass a couple on????

[Deleted User] · 03/02/06 - 00:10

neo6776 wrote:

i found i had problems when i first installed it as well.

So i had to delete the old msn 7.5 and ALL folders to do with it thus losing all my custom emoticons etc..

However, this wasn't a problem for you because you're not an idiot and you don't install beta versions on your main PC.

zounds · 03/02/06 - 08:54

oh jeez - what's this Winter Grooves e-mail all about? lol - just bad, bad, bad (and not in the good sense!).

'Put old man winter on hold and get your Winter Groove going by clicking on the following link'

http://www.imagine-live.com/wintergroove/windowslive%5Flanding/

What exactly are they trying to achieve with that? hmm, I wonder whether the 'windowslive_landing' part of the link means 'Lives' official release is imminent?

...and d'ya think they're trying for the worlds longest ever e-mail address? heh

communications_msn_cs_enus@communications3.msn.com :eek:

One for the spam folder methinks!

I should have read the smallprint more carefully before I signed up for the Beta, I didn't realise they were gonna send me pointless crap.

[Deleted User] · 03/02/06 - 18:28

To the OP, if my FAQ question didn't resolve the issue, then it's possibly being blocked by your firewall. If you go to this link http://messenger.jonathankay.com/allsteps.aspx?ID=16 there are a list of ports at the bottom that will need to be opened for all the features of WLM/MSN to be accessible.

Hope this helps

Scøtt
http://wlm.scottisafool.co.uk/

[Deleted User] · 04/02/06 - 17:34

scottisafool wrote:

To the OP, if my FAQ question didn't resolve the issue, then it's possibly being blocked by your firewall. If you go to this link http://messenger.jonathankay.com/allsteps.aspx?ID=16 there are a list of ports at the bottom that will need to be opened for all the features of WLM/MSN to be accessible.

Hope this helps

Scøtt
http://wlm.scottisafool.co.uk/

Yeah thanks but what do i do about the "Bad URL" thing?

Hey there!

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