I'm able to get in, however "Searching" doesn't work. After typing in something I am searching on, I receive the error "Unexpected Error".
@ Donna
Which browser? If IE9 you could use its Developer Tools, Network Capture to see what your Unexpected Error is. E.g. my guess would be it will be a 500 response with no other clues about what that means. However, if it
means something about what you are sending it (besides that it is your account involved), you could try doing things such as clearing the TIF (or at least doing a Ctrl-F5) or trying to switch to InPrivate Browsing e.g. press Ctrl-Shift-P which would cause
old Cookies to be temporarily ignored but then I think you would have to login again on that new session. In fact, that might be an interesting test just for that fact, since it would mean that you would have two sessions open using the same
account, unless you logged out of the first one before starting the InPrivate Browsing session. Note that of all the above suggestions you would only need IE9 (or IE10) to do the Network Capture.
Another thing that has helped some avoid similar indecipherable symptoms from the server is avoiding use of Sign-in Assistance. Instead of uninstalling the feature (which some have done) I think it should be sufficient just to stop it.
So, if you see (in a cmd window)
>net start | find "Sign-in"
Windows Live ID Sign-in Assistant
then you could try
net stop wlidsvc
Actually I suppose you don't even need to know if it is running or not just to try that stop command. ; )
Good luck
Robert Aldwinckle
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