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Windows Live Messenger - error 8100030f


I’ve just installed the latest Windows Live Messenger and found out that while i am able to work fine from home… at work i keep on getting error 8100030f while trying to sign in.

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The solution to the problem is to edit the ”hosts” file which is located at :

c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc

Just add to the file the following line at the end of the file:

65.54.239.80    messenger.hotmail.com

And yep… you can finally sign-in again :-)

Posted: Feb 23 2009, 12:01 PM by Ohad Israeli | with 23 comment(s)
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Comments

Jose said:

Hey

You have been really helpfull. Probably you dont get this often, but i believe that you might have it.

Thanks,

Jose F

# March 10, 2009 12:51 PM

Edna Cruz said:

Thanks for your help. It really function.

# March 12, 2009 6:59 PM

samoht said:

It works well right after add the entry in host file. Any reason why we need to add it?

# March 16, 2009 9:49 PM

Tony said:

Awesome; thank you.

I wish Micro$oft would include that in their FAQ page.  God knows there are a million other errors and this would be right there with them.

Thanks.

# March 17, 2009 12:25 PM

Kyle said:

that's work. many thanks

# April 6, 2009 4:15 AM

Ricardo said:

Hi José,

I included the line in hosts file. Now I get the error 80072ee7.

# April 7, 2009 5:20 PM

carbo said:

solid fix. cheers.

# April 8, 2009 4:59 PM

Microlong said:

That's great information. It works!!!!

# April 14, 2009 9:44 PM

RL said:

Made it!!!

I have been searching, trying reinstalling for months... it should be incorporate into Microsoft installation file.

# April 22, 2009 12:04 AM

mr binx said:

You've only gone and fixed it! Thanks.

# April 23, 2009 8:40 AM

francesco said:

It's fantastic, great.

thanks a lot.

# April 24, 2009 4:47 AM

heyhey said:

Hey thanks! but I cant save this file!

# April 25, 2009 3:00 PM

double-j said:

i typed the required text into the hosts file..

but now it says:

" Cannot create the C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file.

Make sure that the path and file name are correct "

what can i do to make this file save its changes?

# May 1, 2009 10:33 AM

Urs said:

Outstanding .. such an easy fix hard to beleive MS would not let their customers know .. thanks a lot!!

# May 4, 2009 3:21 PM

fjac said:

thanks so much... works perfectly.

# May 5, 2009 12:38 AM

Noam said:

Thanks you very much!!! at last I solved it with your help.

# May 5, 2009 4:06 AM

Jorge Andres said:

Awesome!!!

Thanks for sharing solutions!!!

# May 5, 2009 3:13 PM

Simon said:

Worked perfectly nice one!

# May 6, 2009 8:47 AM

Roberto said:

Windows Live Messenger happens to work fine from home but at work i keep on getting error 8100030f while trying to sign in.

I've tried inserting the line:

65.54.239.80    messenger.hotmail.com

in the hosts file, but then error 8007274c comes up.

Then I've also tried msn connection troubleshooting tool, but it deletes the above mentioned line from the hosts file and I'm again from the beggining.

Could the proxy be blocking msn traffic? With my previous pc, I had sporadic connection problems, but mostly worked.

Thanks in advance for any hint.

# May 29, 2009 8:29 AM

Kent Sampson said:

Thanks alot it works perfectly =)

# June 7, 2009 8:38 PM

Vince said:

AWESOME FIX....thanks for the info....

# June 25, 2009 11:37 AM

Polar said:

Thanks Dude.  After weeks of not having it work, th is worked like a charm!

# August 10, 2009 9:12 AM

Hector Lerma said:

Now i got the error 8100030d :(

# September 16, 2009 11:49 PM
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