{"id":867,"date":"2008-12-03T16:16:54","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T10:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/?p=867"},"modified":"2008-12-03T16:18:31","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T10:18:31","slug":"msn-messenger-error-8000402a-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/2008\/12\/03\/msn-messenger-error-8000402a-fix\/","title":{"rendered":"Error Code 8000402a: MSN Messenger Error 8000402a Fix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you unable to login to Windows Live Messenger 9 Beta (also known as MSN Messenger 9 Beta, WLM 9 Beta, Windows Live Messenger 2009 Beta, MSN Messenger 2009 Beta, WLM 2009 Beta) and getting the error code <strong>8000402a<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>I was experiencing the issue for some time and just exiting and re-starting the application solved it.  <\/p>\n<p>Basically what i figured out is when the messenger attempts to start the login process before my pc is properly connected online, it starts throwing the error even after a proper connection.<\/p>\n<p>But if you exit the messenger and run it again after the pc is properly connected to the net, the error does not show up again.<\/p>\n<p>Something like it caches the DNS (of msn server ip) of its own? And thus keep trying to connect on that unresolved ip? Not sure.<\/p>\n<p>So if you are getting error code 8000402a on msn messenger, try to exit and start it again. Not sure if its a proper work around, but it worked for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you unable to login to Windows Live Messenger 9 Beta (also known as MSN Messenger 9 Beta, WLM 9 Beta, Windows Live Messenger 2009 Beta, MSN Messenger 2009 Beta, WLM 2009 Beta) and getting the error code 8000402a? I was experiencing the issue for some time and just exiting and re-starting the application solved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[15,175,174,30,18,173,172,16,177,176],"class_list":["post-867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-tips","tag-msn-messenger","tag-msn-messenger-2009","tag-msn-messenger-9","tag-windows-live","tag-windows-live-messenger","tag-windows-live-messenger-2009","tag-windows-live-messenger-9","tag-wlm","tag-wlm-2009","tag-wlm-9"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}