Cant connect to windows skydrive from any Microsoft application

As far as I know you need a Browser add-on for this to work properly, maybe you have to enable it in your browser settings, or install it again. I think the following M$ troubleshooting Link should help you with this:

http://office.microsoft.com/client/helppreview14.aspx?AssetId=HA010378334&lcid=1033&NS=WDWAENDUSER&Version=14&queryid=&respos=1&HelpID=WDWAEndUser%5FOICFailure

I did have the windows sign in related browser add ons disabled but even after enabling them I was still unable to connect to Microsoft skydrive.  It seems I cant even connect to windows update or live mesh either.

One thing I did notice is that when I would log into my skydrive and try to open one of my onenote notebooks, IE9 would freeze and eventually crash.  Sometimes I would get the following message:
"revocation information for the security certificate for this site is not available. Do you want to proceed?"

The only options were Yes, No, View Certificate.

I clicked on Yes, but the prompt would pop up again.  Even after clicked yes several times, the prompt would continue to pop up.  I then clicked on view certificate and I see that a certificate issued to skydrive.live.com by microsoft secure server authority is trying to install on my computer.  I click on install certificate, click next, choose automatically select then click next, then click finish and it seems that explorer freezes up once again and returns with a prompt that says: "The import was successful."

I click OK, and OK, and I'm staring at the original prompt "revocation information...." I click yes once more but it keeps coming back.  I click No and it still returns.  If I click Yes enough times, IE begins to hang and eventually crashes.

Is that possibly a clue as to what could be causing this issue?

Try using a different user profile on the PC. Possibly the one you are using currently is corrupt. If that doesn't help, check the PC for malware using malwarebytes.

a different user profile didnt help.  I've also ran scans from malwarebytes earlier today and yesterday suspecting the same thing but malwarebytes was unable to find anything

I hear ya, when the question of reinstall/reformat comes to another user's machine, I'm all for it, but when the machine in question is the one i use...........then the decision becomes much more difficult :D

in the meantime, im thinking about backing up the notebooks to a flash drive, opening them on another machine and syncing them.

Good Idea.

Just a quick update:

i deleted my ie history, temp files, cookies, etc in IE

I also tried to run the fixes that were linked in a MS article on how to optimize IE however when trying to run the fixes I received the following message:

"We're sorry, but the program encountered an error trying to contact the server. Please try again later.
[Code 80072EE7]"

Also, it seems that I cannot connect to windows update, windows live mesh, or windows live messenger.

Windows live messenger gives me a troubleshooter option and when I run that it passes all the components listed however when I click repair it says the following:

"Windows Live Messenger's Connection troubleshooter was unable to identify and repair the connection problem. However, here are some other resources that might help you.
(Error code: 80048820)"

Here is some further information:
The same issue happens when I try to log into a different windows live account on my computer


I can navigate to skydrive.live.com from IE9 on my machine, I just cant open any documents stored there when clicking on the open in onenote button


I CAN view the notebooks online and make changes to them using any browser on my computer


I am able to sign into my live account in onenote and open my online notebooks using onenote a different computer on a different network


I am able to sign into my live account in onenote and open my online notebooks using onenote a different computer on a different network


I can connect to microsoft windows update on a different computer on the same network

The reason I'm thinking it could be caused by malware is that you can't run the updates. Maybe just one thing, are you using a 3rd party firewall, and what AV software? Another thing to check, if your system date is wrong windows updates won't work, so check that too.

system date is correct and only using windows firewall, which I did add rules/exceptions for onenote specifically.  Im also running trend micro AV which has its firewall disabled.  I did attempt to disable trend micro and see if I could connect to MS services that way but I was still denied access.

Will keep tinkering around to see if there is anything else I overlooked

Just another note, trend micro is running on other computers on our network and those machines are able to connect to MS online services no problem.  I guess its probably a malware issue on my machine....

Thanks for the support rindi

Finally figured it out!  Turns out it wasnt malware, but just simply needed to reset win http

Gerry C J Connell helped me figured it out on this Microsoft Answers thread:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_update/cant-connect-to-windows-updates-from-windows-7-pro/070108f3-0f8f-4be2-9710-7f8126a14191?page=1&tm=1334250556466#footer

Basically I reset win http on my machine and all my online microsoft services started working.

specifically I ran the following command:
netsh winhttp reset proxy
net stop wuauserv
net start wuauserv

Which I got from this kb that Gerry post: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/900936

thought i would post here just in case someone in the future ever stumbles across this thread with the same issue