Tip: When you cannot sign on to Windows Live Messenger

[maash]

go to start, run and put the following and press enter

netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled

this is especially helpful on the error 81000306 you might get when trying to sign in to live messenger

this works for XP SP3 and Vista.

Edited September 10, 2008 by maash

[j.r.l.]

Would help to know what this does and why it works... if it even does.

[maash]

Would help to know what this does and why it works... if it even does.

Windows Vista and XP SP3 introduced a new feature called auto tuning which continually adjusts the Receive Window size based on the network conditions. This has caused some problems with some windows apps specifically time out issues

[Panacik]

go to start, run and put the following and press enter

netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled

this is especially helpful on the error 81000306 you might get when trying to sign in to live messenger

Diesnt do anything, just gives an error. Im on SP3 as well.

[maash]

Diesnt do anything, just gives an error.

this is only an issue with XP SP3 and Vista

Diesnt do anything, just gives an error. Im on SP3 as well.

must be some other issue, I am able to run it here on my machine perfectly fine.

source of tip : http://forums.microsoft.com/technet/showpo...=0&pageid=2

[soldier1st]

i doubt autotuning would cause any problems.maybe on ancient hardware but if that is the case you should not be running vista or ancient hardware.

[carmatic]

what is the default setting of this autotuning thing? is it just 'enabled' or is it some number or something else?

[former1]

If the variable in this case is disabled, I assume it would be enabled... if not enable *shrug* if that fails try 1 :p

[carmatic]

is this 'netsh' command vista-only?

[carmatic]

is this 'netsh' command vista-only?

sorry im a noob... in my xp sp3, i can run netsh, and i can get netsh int , like the 'netsh interface context', but typing 'tcp' when it is in that context makes it say 'the following command was not found'... so all that "set global autotuninglevel=disabled" stuff isnt gonna work

[xpgeek]

I thought the auto tuning thing was only in Vista and not XP, didn't know SP3 added that.

[TakeNothingBack]

Probably a good place to drop this.

It's a Messenger Error Fixer, does a few .dll fixes depending on the error you choose from the list of fixes it offers. It's a few years old and from memory it's from mess.be.

Messenger_Error_Fixer.zip

[McDave]

Seemed to work for me, thanks