LIVE gaming on Windows failed to initialize.

My son just bought Halo 2, he worked hard to earn the money to buy this game, and now he can't play. I had this error and have spent a lot of time trying to make it work. I was wondering if there is a final solution to the error. I have been games on computers for years and have never had such a hard time with a game. I think that Microsoft would have received some kind of fix in now since 2007. I am very disappointed! This kid has worked hard for it and got nothing for its efforts but a butt game disc! When Microsoft starts back up what they are selling? Read all messages for this error me steam, it's a shame to let your customers suffer trying to do your job! Knowing that after opening a box of software most of the retailers won't bring back seems not to bother Microsoft, after all, you've got your money, who cares if the software works!

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Found this in another post.  It works for me.  Although I did a lot of other things before hand that may have contributed.

Load the latest version of games for Windows Live Client. Before loading the game launch Halo 2 Live and sign. Then start Halo2. The game should work fine. This is a problem with Halo 2 is not able to start the Client to live properly on Windows 7/Vista.

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