Error 80004005 fixed in Windows Live Messenger 8.0.0812

Following up on the announcement of an updated version of Windows Live Messenger, details of what has changed have been posted by Leah at the official Windows Live Messenger Space.

The biggie is a fix for error 80004005, caused by Messenger miscalculating the length of the local friendly name upon sign in:

Say limit is 6 characters per friendly name. Messenger would let me type “LeahJ” no problem, because it was counting the whole emoticon as one character, and thus my friendly name was 5 characters total. But the next time I tried to sign-in, Messenger would do a check which would count each character of the emoticon separately and thus “Leah:-)” added up to 7 characters, which is over the max limit of 6. Error.

You can get this new release from get.live.com

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