Oh, this is the stuff nightmares are made of. Came back from work tonight, proceeded to log into Windows Live Messenger 9 with my Hotmail address. Up pops the all-too-familiar Error 80070057 window: “We were unable to sign you in because this email address could not be verified…” What’s this, a visit from the ghost of Christmas past?
Fortunately I remembered iMad’s comments to me, and so I tried it out. Since I’m on Vista I navigated to C: > Users > User Name > AppData > Local > Microsoft > Windows Live Contacts. Deleted all those folders with cryptic numbers and letters. Exited WLM9 completely, and then restarted it. Bingo! I’m signed in!
I would like to say a big thank you to iMad for coming up with the solution to this blasted problem.
Tags: error 80070057, Windows Live Messenger 9
Oh I’m so glad to hear that worked! At least there’s a solution!!
Yes, thank God for people like iMad.
hey! i was searching through the net for some solution and i’m glad i found your page. i was getting so annoyed with this problem. thanks for posting the solution up..along with the link too!
(it was especially helpful cos i’m some tech noob that can’t do these kinda things… 
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thanks a million!
thanks so much… i’ve been looking for a solution to this problem for ages, and i couldn’t take any more popup messengers!! I don’t normally write comments but i thought you deserved one
hehe
You’re very welcome, benji. Thanks for dropping by!
Disaster!!!
– i post the link in the box thing in the documents bit and it says to make sure the spelling is correct :/ what do i do ? :S
It doesnt work for me