Iโve been having trouble in launching Windows Live Messenger for quite some time and I had to use Pidgin to connect to my MSN buddies, finally (today) I decided to solve this problem and here is the quick solution:
http://www.truecombatelite.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=26227&sid=d7f42bc042a2595f68b3ec3b98f08262
Iโve tried and it works perfectly โ after deleting the registry key under group HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MSNMessenger\PerPassportSettings, my Windows Live Messenger came back to work.
I havenโt read through though, not sure whatโs the story beind.