kurt, im feeling your pain with the messenger situation. mines exactly the
same as yours but mines been for 3 days now. ive had lots of posts but no
joy. all i can say is that somebody out there knows how to fix it. keep the
faith!!!!!
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si


"Kurt" wrote:

> Friday at work, I was unable to log onto Windows Messenger and I got the
> following error:
>
> Signing in to .NET Messenger Service failed because the service is temporary
> unavailable.
>
> Well, I go home and I get the same error message. According to Microsoft
> the service is up and running. I tried to log in my girlfriend and she has
> no problem at all. I went to hotmail.com to make sure my passport was still
> working. When I signed it, I had to reactivate my account for some reason.
> After activating it, I tried to log on again and I still get the same error:
>
> Signing in to .NET Messenger Service failed because the service is temporary
> unavailable.
>
> Any suggestions?