Cannot Sign in to All Services

[Steve G.]

When I sign in to MSN Instant Messenger, there is a
little blue circle with a white 'i' in the middle that
says "You are not signed in to all services." When I
click on it it gives me my hotmail sign-in name and asks
me to click to sign in. The prompt then appears: "Signing
in to the services failed because the service is
temporarily unavailable. Try again later." But this has
been going on for days, weeks! Is this an MSN problem, or
do I have a setting wrong, or what? I disabled my
ZoneAlarm firewall, and still this prompt? What are all
these services anyway? Why is this so complicated! Grrr!

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Greetings Steve,

I assume you're just trying to sign into the normal Windows Messenger network? (.NET
Messenger). To fix this, click the Tools menu, then select Options. Click the accounts tab
and then click the option button '.NET Passport' under 'Sign in with this account first:'.
Then, uncheck the box 'My contacts include users of a communications service', click OK and
then sign on again.
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Windows MVP, Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com

"Steve G." > wrote in message
...
> When I sign in to MSN Instant Messenger, there is a
> little blue circle with a white 'i' in the middle that
> says "You are not signed in to all services." When I
> click on it it gives me my hotmail sign-in name and asks
> me to click to sign in. The prompt then appears: "Signing
> in to the services failed because the service is
> temporarily unavailable. Try again later." But this has
> been going on for days, weeks! Is this an MSN problem, or
> do I have a setting wrong, or what? I disabled my
> ZoneAlarm firewall, and still this prompt? What are all
> these services anyway? Why is this so complicated! Grrr!
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Steve G.]

Thank you so much, Jonathan:

Your advice was taken, and what you suggested most
certainly fixed my problem! I really don't understand
much about any of all this, but I don't have that little
sign saying I haven't signed in to all the services.

I am very grateful for your help!!

Steve


>-----Original Message-----
>Greetings Steve,
>
>I assume you're just trying to sign into the normal
Windows Messenger network? (.NET
>Messenger). To fix this, click the Tools menu, then
select Options. Click the accounts tab
>and then click the option button '.NET Passport'
under 'Sign in with this account first:'.
>Then, uncheck the box 'My contacts include users of a
communications service', click OK and
>then sign on again.
>____________________________________________
>Jonathan Kay
>Windows MVP, Messenger
>Associate Expert
>http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
>Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
>
>"Steve G." > wrote in message
...
>> When I sign in to MSN Instant Messenger, there is a
>> little blue circle with a white 'i' in the middle that
>> says "You are not signed in to all services." When I
>> click on it it gives me my hotmail sign-in name and
asks
>> me to click to sign in. The prompt then
appears: "Signing
>> in to the services failed because the service is
>> temporarily unavailable. Try again later." But this has
>> been going on for days, weeks! Is this an MSN problem,
or
>> do I have a setting wrong, or what? I disabled my
>> ZoneAlarm firewall, and still this prompt? What are all
>> these services anyway? Why is this so complicated!
Grrr!
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
>
>.
>

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Hi Steve,

You're very welcome =).
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Windows MVP, Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com

"Steve G." > wrote in message
...
> Thank you so much, Jonathan:
>
> Your advice was taken, and what you suggested most
> certainly fixed my problem! I really don't understand
> much about any of all this, but I don't have that little
> sign saying I haven't signed in to all the services.
>
> I am very grateful for your help!!
>
> Steve
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Greetings Steve,
> >
> >I assume you're just trying to sign into the normal
> Windows Messenger network? (.NET
> >Messenger). To fix this, click the Tools menu, then
> select Options. Click the accounts tab
> >and then click the option button '.NET Passport'
> under 'Sign in with this account first:'.
> >Then, uncheck the box 'My contacts include users of a
> communications service', click OK and
> >then sign on again.
> >____________________________________________
> >Jonathan Kay
> >Windows MVP, Messenger
> >Associate Expert
> >http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
> >Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
> >
> >"Steve G." > wrote in message
> ...
> >> When I sign in to MSN Instant Messenger, there is a
> >> little blue circle with a white 'i' in the middle that
> >> says "You are not signed in to all services." When I
> >> click on it it gives me my hotmail sign-in name and
> asks
> >> me to click to sign in. The prompt then
> appears: "Signing
> >> in to the services failed because the service is
> >> temporarily unavailable. Try again later." But this has
> >> been going on for days, weeks! Is this an MSN problem,
> or
> >> do I have a setting wrong, or what? I disabled my
> >> ZoneAlarm firewall, and still this prompt? What are all
> >> these services anyway? Why is this so complicated!
> Grrr!
> >>
> >> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> >
> >
> >.
> >