Fix: Signing Into MSN messenger Failed – 0×800B0004 or 800b0001 Error Messages

Contributor Icon Contributed by MickeyMouse Date Icon July 1, 2005  
Tag Icon Tagged: Windows

Common error message seen when trying to uninstall or reinstall MSN messenger. Here’s the fix.


When uninstalling MSN messenger or reinstalling it, sometimes people get one of the following errors:

Signing into MSN messenger failed because the service is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later. 800b0001

Signing in to .NET Messenger Service failed because the service is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later.

By re-registering some files, this is pretty easily fixed.

Fix:

    1. Click Start
    2. Click Run
    3. In the textbox type: cmd.exe
    4. Click OK
    5. The command window will open. Type the following commands in the command window and press ENTER. Some of these commands make take up to 60 seconds to execute. Just wait for each one to complete before entering the next one.

    [list] regsvr32 Mssip32.dll
    regsvr32 Softpub.dll
    regsvr32 Initpki.dll

6. Usually this seems to work. However, if this doesn’t work, you may need to register more files. Here are the common trouble-makers. Continue to enter these into the command window:

    regsvr32 Cryptdlg.dll
    regsvr32 Rsaenh.dll
    regsvr32 Gpkcsp.dll
    regsvr32 Dssenh.dll
    regsvr32 Slbcsp.dll
    regsvr32 Mssip32.dll
    regsvr32 Wintrust.dll
    regsvr32 Sccbase.dll
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  • Anonymous
    Tried all the above without success. Found http://www.msn-problems.com/solve-msn-messenger-problem/sign-in/msn-7/msn-messenger-sign-in-80004005.php which had a downloadable batch file fixing various dlls. Works fine now.
  • Anonymous
    lklj
  • Anonymous
    hi when i try to sing in to msn messengerit says " ishgning into msn messenger has failed because the service is busy " how do i fix this HELP ME PLZ could u get back 2 me quickly as possable thank u
  • Anonymous
    <ul id="quote"><h6>Anonymous wrote:</h6>hi when i try to sing in to msn messengerit says " ishgning into msn messenger has failed because the service is busy " how do i fix this HELP ME PLZ could u get back 2 me quickly as possable thank u</ul>
  • Anonymous
    Error might also occur with windows update, using the same steps should fix.
    See here: http://www.updatexp.com/0x800B0004.html

    This is a link to the correct page: error code 0x800B0004
  • Anonymous
    Try this FREE online Messenger Service for Yahoo & MSN :

    http://www.ebuddy.com/
  • jam
    I have tried that and luckily I have a good virus catcher because I must have caught 4 viruses withing half an hour.
  • nino
    ...
  • Msn-Addict
    hi
    mine is STILL not working!
    Any tips??
    Cheers
    x
  • Emily
    when i try to sign in it keeps coming up "Signing into msn messenger failed because the service is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later."

    What does this mean? I've tried to sign in for weeks and it still doesnt work, i've reinstalled it about so many times and its not the firewall blocking it.
    HELP!! its so annoying; how do i fix it :S ?
  • Does this work with Vista? I couldn't get it to work properly
  • Karthik
    Step 5 succeeded. Thanks a lot.
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