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Numerous users of Windows Live Messenger are currently experiencing the error code 80048820 when they try to sign in to Messenger. The Windows Live team has published a solution advisory. If you are getting this error as well, the reason might be that you have invalid characters in the first name of your user profile.
Editing your user profile first name
Editing your user profile first name
- Go to http://account.live.com/.
- Sign in with the account in question.
- Click the Registered information link.
- Click the Change link next to your name.
- Change the First name to something appropriate with no special characters or the ‘&’ symbol.
- Click Save.
- Attempt to sign in with Messenger again.
Microsoft announced today that Windows Live Messenger is no longer invite only and is now a public beta! It is available for anyone to download for free from the Windows Live Ideas site.
The release to public beta has also signified the start of the sale of the Windows Live Messenger phones which we have already reported about. Both the Uniden WIN1200A and the Philips VOIP433 are thought to be on sale soon, and it is thought that the Uniden will cost about $99 USD.
The Windows Live Call service is also being enhanced next week to be available in six new markets: Austria, Belgium, Finland, Ireland, Italy and the Netherlands. (The service is already available in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Spain.) This means that if you live in any of the above countries you will be able to access Windows Live Call through Windows Live Messenger in your localized language and currency, and make voice calls to other PCs or actual phone numbers, provided by Verizon Web Calling.
It also says that, as we already told you here at msgstuff, MSN Messenger is "the most widely used instant messaging service" worldwide and reports that there are more than 230 million user around the world.
In other news, the Windows Live Friends controlled limited beta (previously only available in Australia) has been expanded to Dutch .NET Passport owners. If you are in Australia or Holland then you can access Windows Live Friends though MSN Spaces or Windows Live Messenger by right-clicking on a contact and choosing View > Friends List, or by clicking the Friends List button on your contact's contact card. To set up your friends list visit http://spaces.msn.com/NetworkSetup.aspx (with a Dutch or Australian .NET Passport).
UPDATE:
The Uniden WIN1200 is now available exclusively at Best Buy in America and is expected to be released in Europe within the next couple of weeks.
The Philips VOIP433 is apparently available in a lot of shops in America now also and will soon also be available in Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America.
Download the lastest Windows Live Messenger beta
View the Microsoft press release
See the Philips VOIP433
See the Uniden WIN1200
Visit the Uniden promotional site for the WIN1200
The release to public beta has also signified the start of the sale of the Windows Live Messenger phones which we have already reported about. Both the Uniden WIN1200A and the Philips VOIP433 are thought to be on sale soon, and it is thought that the Uniden will cost about $99 USD.
The Windows Live Call service is also being enhanced next week to be available in six new markets: Austria, Belgium, Finland, Ireland, Italy and the Netherlands. (The service is already available in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Spain.) This means that if you live in any of the above countries you will be able to access Windows Live Call through Windows Live Messenger in your localized language and currency, and make voice calls to other PCs or actual phone numbers, provided by Verizon Web Calling.
It also says that, as we already told you here at msgstuff, MSN Messenger is "the most widely used instant messaging service" worldwide and reports that there are more than 230 million user around the world.
In other news, the Windows Live Friends controlled limited beta (previously only available in Australia) has been expanded to Dutch .NET Passport owners. If you are in Australia or Holland then you can access Windows Live Friends though MSN Spaces or Windows Live Messenger by right-clicking on a contact and choosing View > Friends List, or by clicking the Friends List button on your contact's contact card. To set up your friends list visit http://spaces.msn.com/NetworkSetup.aspx (with a Dutch or Australian .NET Passport).
UPDATE:
The Uniden WIN1200 is now available exclusively at Best Buy in America and is expected to be released in Europe within the next couple of weeks.
The Philips VOIP433 is apparently available in a lot of shops in America now also and will soon also be available in Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America.
Download the lastest Windows Live Messenger beta View the Microsoft press release See the Philips VOIP433 See the Uniden WIN1200 Visit the Uniden promotional site for the WIN1200If there is one major problem with Windows Live Messenger, it has to be how it uses up far too much process memory. It is highly annoying, and with my low amount of ram, I find I have to close messenger down to use other programs. Also a lot of the time messenger is running in the background and I just want it to be there silent hardly doing anything, but alas this is not the case. However, Kobol has potentially discovered the cause.
It seems the more contacts you have, the more process memory Windows Live Messenger uses up. Also, address book entries for deleted contacts would use up process memory unless they are cleared, so even after you deleted a contact it uses up your system resources. It is a very nice find indeed.
So ... what does this mean? Well luckily, you don't have to clean all your contacts up, although it may help, Kobol has told the Windows Live Messenger team and hopefully they should work on a solution. Let's hope it happens.
Source: eXoenDo's Blog
I used NoRooms ListCleaner and removed all of the contacts that had deleted me from their list (there were about 80), all of the people I was allowing to see my status even though they werent on my list and I wasnt on theirs (omg, there was a lot, at least 160), and all the people im blocking that deleted me and I deleted them (about 60)....I then deleted all the Address Book Entries corresponding to these contacts...and Wallah, My Messenger Memory Usage is now down to 20MB with 1 chat window open...thats 60MB less than before I cleaned it.
It seems the more contacts you have, the more process memory Windows Live Messenger uses up. Also, address book entries for deleted contacts would use up process memory unless they are cleared, so even after you deleted a contact it uses up your system resources. It is a very nice find indeed.
So ... what does this mean? Well luckily, you don't have to clean all your contacts up, although it may help, Kobol has told the Windows Live Messenger team and hopefully they should work on a solution. Let's hope it happens.
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