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.

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