Friday, February 9th, 2007

Are you receiving the following error while trying to sign-in to Windows Live Messenger (MSN Messenger)?

You cannot use Windows Live Messenger at this time becasue your contact list is not available. Please try again later.

Click help to learn about your contact list.

Error Code: 81000378

MSN Error 81000378

Here is how to solve it:

Open windows host file with Notepad: C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\ho­sts

Add these 2 lines to the bottom:

65.54.239.80 messenger.hotmail.com
65.54.239.80 dp.msnmessenger.akadns.net

Save it and restart msn

Please do remember to remove these lines when the msn service gets back to normal.

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