"The Profile could not be signed in to LIVE" -- there may be a network problem or the windows live ID service may not be available

[GattyStrumpf]

All my settings are fine. I don't have connectivity issues with anything else. My GFWL Id has been verified all across the microsoft spectrum. Yet still, a day and probably a hundred tries later, after clicking submit on the GFWL license-key entry screen, I get "The Profile could not be signed in to LIVE
-- there may be a network problem or the windows
live ID service may not be available".

Can anybody help?

[GattyStrumpf]

Duude. Just figured it out:

Windows 7:

click office button (start button).

in search field type "firewall".

Under control panel options, click "Allow a program through Windows Firewall".

click "change settings" button in upper right of window.

click "Allow another program"

Navigate to the following folder: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games for Windows - LIVE\Client"

Select GFWLClient.exe.

Check boxes for "Home/Work (Private)" and "Public".

Navigate to the following folder: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games for Windows - LIVE\Client"

Select GFWLive.exe

Check boxes for "Home/Work (Private)" and "Public".

Reboot.

Done. (Actually, mine required a GFWL administrator authorized update upon start-up) but it appears to be working fine now -- I just got smashed in an online match.

In retrospect, it sounds a lot simpler than it actually was to find this solution, and anything else I've ever used (non GFWL) never required any such additional permissions troubleshooting and settings; they were all handled appropriately during install.

Anyway. There you have it.

[GattyStrumpf]

Update - Now its doing the same crap even though nothing has changed from 20 minutes ago when it was playing great. Conclusion - GFWL is just garbage. I'll stop posting on this now.

[Khaaannn!!!]

I realize this is a zombie post but it's also one of the first results on google for this error. In my case the problem was that I had two-factor authentication enabled for my Window LIVE account. The GFWL client does not appear to support this, so you have to turn it off if you want to sign in.

[peterman]

Originally posted by Khaaannn!!!:

I realize this is a zombie post but it's also one of the first results on google for this error. In my case the problem was that I had two-factor authentication enabled for my Window LIVE account. The GFWL client does not appear to support this, so you have to turn it off if you want to sign in.

give that man a cookie. its about e-mail lads just get a new e-mail and sign in to gfwl.