Windows Live Messenger - error 8100030f

Monday, February 23, 2009

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.

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 :-)

23 Comments

Hey

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

Thanks,

Jose F

Jose - Tuesday, March 10, 2009 6:51:19 PM

Thanks for your help. It really function.

Edna Cruz - Friday, March 13, 2009 12:59:36 AM

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

samoht - Tuesday, March 17, 2009 3:49:47 AM

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.

Tony - Tuesday, March 17, 2009 6:25:00 PM

that's work. many thanks

Kyle - Monday, April 6, 2009 11:15:37 AM

Hi José,

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

Ricardo - Wednesday, April 8, 2009 12:20:13 AM

solid fix. cheers.

carbo - Wednesday, April 8, 2009 11:59:51 PM

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

Microlong - Wednesday, April 15, 2009 4:44:41 AM

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

RL - Wednesday, April 22, 2009 7:04:02 AM

You've only gone and fixed it! Thanks.

mr binx - Thursday, April 23, 2009 3:40:54 PM

It's fantastic, great.
thanks a lot.

francesco - Friday, April 24, 2009 11:47:27 AM

Hey thanks! but I cant save this file!

heyhey - Saturday, April 25, 2009 10:00:05 PM

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?

double-j - Friday, May 1, 2009 5:33:10 PM

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

Urs - Monday, May 4, 2009 10:21:52 PM

thanks so much... works perfectly.

fjac - Tuesday, May 5, 2009 7:38:33 AM

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

Noam - Tuesday, May 5, 2009 11:06:37 AM

Awesome!!!
Thanks for sharing solutions!!!

Jorge Andres - Tuesday, May 5, 2009 10:13:54 PM

Worked perfectly nice one!

Simon - Wednesday, May 6, 2009 3:47:55 PM

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.

Roberto - Friday, May 29, 2009 3:29:53 PM

Thanks alot it works perfectly =)

Kent Sampson - Monday, June 8, 2009 3:38:34 AM

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

Vince - Thursday, June 25, 2009 6:37:09 PM

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

Polar - Monday, August 10, 2009 4:12:11 PM

Now i got the error 8100030d :(

Hector Lerma - Thursday, September 17, 2009 6:49:29 AM

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