Hi,

Maybe you wish to know that your solution helped another user solved the
same problem.

Thanks for the sharing :)

Happy Thanksgiving!


"David McGown" <dmcgown(nospam)@apriso.com> wrote in message
news:A3ABC747-BC07-4544-B73B-42B4B855A3F8@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
>I found the procedure below in another group, and it solved my problem with
>Vista and Live Messenger. Apparently Vista's "auto-tuning" networking
>feature doesn't play nice with some routers. Not sure if it is a bug in
>Vista, a bug in Messenger or a bug in the router firmware but anyway this
>looks like a possible workaround that might help other people who have the
>same problem.
>
> Try this:
> - Click start
> - Type: cmd
> - Right-click cmd.exe when it appears under Applications
> - Click Run As Administrator
> - Type the following: netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled
> - Press enter
> - Restart your computer
>
>
> "David McGown" <dmcgown(nospam)@apriso.com> wrote in message
> news:9DF2DE6F-2644-43A0-BCEC-C6421ED2DDE1@microsoft.com...[color=green]
>> I've installed Vista (Build 6000) and Windows Live Messenger (Build
>> 8.0.0812) and cannot get Messenger to sign in. It gives the same error
>> every time - 81000306. This is a fresh & clean Vista install and the
>> local firewall is disabled but there is a firewall on our router. Since
>> all of our XP SP2 users have no problem with the same version of
>> Messenger, I am guessing that there is something different about the way
>> Vista works with our router. My IT guy is reluctant to change anything at
>> this stage unless I can make specific requests about what needs to
>> change.
>>
>> Any ideas what to change that might fix this? Is this a known
>> incompatibility with Vista and Messenger?
>>
>> Thanks.[/color]
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