Comments on: Do You Get Windows Live Messenger Error Code 80072efd when Signing In?

By: Rox

Rox — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 07:16:51 +0000

It didn’t work, I tried everything that promised to help to solve this error, but unfortunately everything failed. Actually, I can’t even open any sites that are related with the messenger.
Can you please help me? I have no idea what to do.
By the way, I am using Vista.

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 21:32:48 +0000

This error seems to relate to a proxy error.
Are you on a college or corporate network?

Try this:
1. Click Start, Control Panel, Internet options.
2. Switch to the Zones tab.
3. Mark the entry Trusted sites, and click the Sites… button.
4. Add the following entry to the list of trusted sites:
https://*.contacts.msn.com
5. Click OK, and switch to the Connections tab.
6. Click the LAN settings button. If the Advanced button is active, click it and add *.contacts.msn.com to the Exceptions list.
7. Click OK to close the dialogs.
8. Retry to sign in to Messenger.

By: abeer

abeer — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 17:51:04 +0000

your solutions were reallllly helpful for all of the problems I had with msgr yet I am currently facing error code 80072ef3 is there any available way to get out of it ??? thank you

By: joker.med

joker.med — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 21:04:01 +0000

Thank you for the article, I had the “80072efd” error in win. live messenger 2011, I unchecked the “use automatic configuration script” in my “Internet Explorer 9 beta” browser settings and my problem was solved, messenger connect again.
I’m not sure, but my problem might be caused by a proxy switcher application.

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 13:31:39 +0000

Try updating the firmware and reset it to factory settings.

By: rochelle

rochelle — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:24:05 +0000

wow, so i feel sorta stupid, my son suggested not using my linksys router and yep all works fine!!!!!! not sure if this will help any one.why it would start blocking messenger i am not sure after all these years with it.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:59:08 +0000

If it is your email as well and you can use internet explorer then it is probably a firewall issue
or maybe a virus problem.

By: Reno

Reno — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:33:17 +0000

Still doesn’t work… I did that and still get the same error message but now it starts to say ”There might be a problem with your internet connection. Make sure your computer is connected to the interenet.” And it is. Oh, and the Proxy server thing is unticked.. Help, please? Help would be greatly appreciated. I really need to contact someone. Oh, and can you publish the answer if you do so happen to reply? Like rochelle’s problem, I can’t also get access to my E-mail, sadly… ~Reno.

By: rochelle

rochelle — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:13:26 +0000

tried this. I thought it was fixed. now i am on messenger and can see contacts but still can’t access mail. the 800 phone number is getting us no where, they are not helpful any other idea???? i am not access my mail so i hope the answer is published