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Name: bret
Date: May 30, 2002 at 20:11:24 Pacific
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Hi guys, i have a problem going into the hotmail website, every single time i try to enter it gives me this error: We apologize, but your account is temporarily unavailable. This delay does not affect the entire site or relate specifically to your account, but the machine that holds your account information is temporarily unavailable. We do not expect this delay to last much longer, so please continue to check our site for your account status.
We will do our best to make your account available as quickly as possible. We appreciate your support, and sincerely apologize for the inconvenience.

Now that shows up everytime i try to get into my hotmail, can anyone please help me?
I am running Xp pro.
thank you



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Response Number 1
Name: Jennifer
Date: May 30, 2002 at 20:18:00 Pacific
Reply:

The error is self-explanatory. You just have to wait it out...


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Response Number 2
Name: bret
Date: May 30, 2002 at 21:29:41 Pacific
Reply:

Follow up

Im also getting this error Due to an internal error your request cannot be processed. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please try again later.
If you are attempting to reactivate your Hotmail account, we're sorry but your request cannot be processed at this time.
Please do the following:

Close all web browser windows.
Restart your web browser.
Return to http://www.hotmail.com to sign in.

tried everything it told me to do and still cant go into the hotmail site, any suggestions, or is it another wait-out thing
Thanks for your reply Jennifer



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Response Number 3
Name: Phylis Sophical
Date: May 31, 2002 at 01:26:59 Pacific
Reply:

You could try to access your Hotmail account from another machine. Then you'd know if it's hotmail, or your machine. Mine is working fine.


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Response Number 4
Name: Chris-M
Date: May 31, 2002 at 08:23:08 Pacific
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The problem explains itself quite well.
The hotmail database of email is made of a network of PC's
The problem is that the Hotmail PC that holds all of your email is currently offline, you have to sit and wait I am afraid.

-Chris


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Response Number 5
Name: Michael
Date: May 31, 2002 at 13:26:37 Pacific
Reply:

I have had a Hotmail account for around 2 years and I got the same message for the first time a few days back. It's accessable again now.


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Response Number 6
Name: FirePulse
Date: June 1, 2002 at 09:45:45 Pacific
Reply:

Hi, for the last few weeks I haven't been able to sign into my Hotmail account either. At first it kept telling me to re-enter my password, then it let me change my password, however that did nothing. Now I'm getting the same error message as bret. I'm running win. ME. I tried signing in from a few different comps. and it worked fine. Any suggestions besides just waiting? Thanks.


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Response Number 7
Name: Harry L.
Date: June 10, 2002 at 07:25:21 Pacific
Reply:

Hi,
For the last 2 days I was not able to get onto Hotmail too. I guess it had to do with ...... a few days before then, I accidentally opened an email that did not make sense, perhaps that did something. Lately, I received these strange emails that tried some enticing wordings that I could see from the preview pane. But I am not a curious person at that. So I did not open the attachments, deleted the mails instead. I tried blocking these mails, at first it did not work, because they kept changing their returned addresses which weren't real anyway. But I made complaints to both my ISP and the network that delivered their mails. I knew that some of the nets that said to be their deliverers were not real. But anyway it is useful to complain to those nets because then, they would do something to try to see where these liars did come from and lied on their net's names. I always wrote to the system administrators, or addressed to the postmaster of that accused net. For the last week or so, I almost completey void of receiving these nonesense mails. Hope it won't start back later.
Ciao !
Harry.


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Response Number 8
Name: konflict
Date: June 28, 2002 at 23:30:44 Pacific
Reply:

im having a hotmail problem aswell, i just installed xp and whenever i try to log in to hotmail it times out and i get a "cannot find server" message, i tried turning the firewall off but that didnt work


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Response Number 9
Name: may malouf
Date: June 29, 2002 at 18:20:50 Pacific
Reply:

I get this error message when all three of us
who use our computer try to log into our
hotmail accounts: "The identity certificate
uses an unknown signature algorithm." Does
anybody know what this means?


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Response Number 10
Name: Cindy
Date: July 2, 2002 at 06:17:00 Pacific
Reply:

Yes. I have the same problem. For two weeks now. I have had my password reauthorized and can access my hotmail from my outlook mail, but I still cannot send. Any ideas on how to bypass and send in outlook e?

I am wondering if Hotmail is trying to get people to subscribe this way.....


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Response Number 11
Name: Adam (AKS)
Date: July 3, 2002 at 16:58:34 Pacific
Reply:

I have had problems getting into one of my hotmail accounts for the past few days (notably the one that has the most space used). I cannot get in via the hotmail website (it just times out whilst authenticating the password). This happens on serveral computers using serveral ISP's. I have however found that if I check my email from the hotmail link on www.msn.co.uk or from
http://dial.blueyonder.co.uk/publish/index.html
then it will let me into my mailbox with no problems.


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Response Number 12
Name: michael
Date: July 4, 2002 at 09:50:30 Pacific
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The problem I have been having is the most bizarre one I have ever faced in my 15 years surfing the net. Suddenly, as of last week - june 30th or so - BOTH MY HOME PC's have been unable to access the www.hotmail.com or the MYMSN. Hotmail keeps giving me childish instruction such as "empty your cache" or otherwise empty my internet saved pages etc. I can access ANY OTHER URL except for theirs and this is what they tell me. It's enough to give up on Hotmail altogether and stick with Yahoo..... I tried going to the other links suggested by Adam (AKS) and that didn't work either (glad it's working for you though)..........


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Response Number 13
Name: Adley
Date: July 10, 2002 at 07:48:09 Pacific
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I have another kind of problem with Hotmail. I can't sign in from my computer, but can access from any other computer. Can't figure out that problem !!!


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Response Number 14
Name: Adam (AKS)
Date: July 12, 2002 at 18:27:38 Pacific
Reply:

...me again...

I have finally managed to get access from www.hotmail.com to my main email account... In order to do this I had to delete every tempolary internet file on my computer.

I would not advise you do this unless you know what you are doing. You will also lose any web pages you have saved into favorites and any cookies. Anyone that does know what I am on about and wants to try it here is what i did do this...


Find you tempolary internet files directory... goto content.ie5. Delete all the subfolders in that directory. Then delete the files in content.ie5 (do not delete this directory thou). you then have to delete index.dat from the content.ie5 folder (which is only viewable from dos once you change its attributes (attrib -r +a -h -s index.dat). THIS PART HAS TO BE DONE FROM PURE DOS (not inside a dos window in windows)

It is far less time consuming to do this from DOS rather than from windows. I have tried this on 2 computers that I have had problems on and it works as soon as you have done it.


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Response Number 15
Name: edo
Date: July 18, 2002 at 03:07:19 Pacific
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My Acount now is not responding somebody takes my email acount can you help me pleasse i don`t now what to do I got thet acount two years and more i now my old password and my old secret question but it not works somebody is working with my email adress .This was hepened two months ago pleasse check me i got all for that addres


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Response Number 16
Name: mustapha
Date: July 29, 2002 at 08:26:55 Pacific
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i have been using my email for more than 3 years and last night i could not access to it it keeps telling me that my pass word or my signing name is invalid
any idea please helpppppppppp


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