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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:

1. Go to Start, and click on “Run”.
2. Type cmd and press enter.
3. A black screen with white letters will open. Typ in the following: ipconfig /flushdns
4. Press enter
5. Type exit and press enter
6. 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:

1. Go to Start, Run
2. Type in the following and press enter:
3. REGSVR32 softpub.dll initpki.dll wintrust.dll
4. Click OK
5. Try if Windows Live / MSN Messenger works now

If Windows Live Messenger still will not work, then there is another thing you can try:

1. Start Internet Explorer
2. Go to the Tools menu. Click on Internet Options
3. Click on the connection tab and click on LAN settings
4. Uncheck / clear the the “Automatically detect settings” box
5. Click on OK, and then again on OK.
6. Try if Windows Live / MSN Messenger works now

I hope this will help anyone with the problem!

A few days ago, I was updating Windows XP and got the Windows Update error 80070420. Here is a method on how to fix it. Take the following steps:

• Go to Start, Control Panel
• Open Add / Remove Programs
• Search for the following:

• If you see the above item, click Remove. Reboot your computer afterwards. If you don’t see the link, proceed to the next step.
• Open the following link and install the software: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=889482fc-5f56-4a38-b838-de776fd4138c&displaylang=en
• Reboot your computer.
• Try Windows XP update again.

The problem should now be solved!