how do i remove my status ?

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June 8, 2003 at 7:53 pm #13197

OpTiMiSt
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hi gys…….i wanna know how to remove my own status in yahoo messenger….coz i got too much my own status now i wanna delete them…
any good idea…tnx in advance….

June 8, 2003 at 8:03 pm #95268

detn8r
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Thats interesting.
I couldnt seem to find a way to remove them either.
Now I am curious.
Anyone?

June 8, 2003 at 8:10 pm #95269
macroheadwithamicrobrain
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- Open the Registry Editor
- Goto key HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareYahooPagerprofilesyour_yahoo_id
- Delete key Custom Msgs
June 8, 2003 at 8:28 pm #95270

OpTiMiSt
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yea gr8 ,,,,,its really cool idea…tnx macroheadwithamicrobrain..

June 8, 2003 at 9:41 pm #95275

khizz
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uhmp… Guyz may i know wat kind of status ur talking about:confused:

June 8, 2003 at 11:52 pm #95267

detn8r
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In yahoo messenger, you have the option to make your own away message that will be visible to your contacts. I’m sure you noticed it when you click on “I’m avaiable” at the bottom of messenger. If not, its the “new status message” option.

June 9, 2003 at 12:57 am #95273

Nhyrvana
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before ya mess in registry back it up………
and you can just make 5 new ones….
old ones gone…..or rerun installer…..

all that and more on my site..

June 9, 2003 at 11:12 am #95274

khizz
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0wh ok… Thankz for replying anyway!! 🙂

June 9, 2003 at 11:41 am #95277

freddy
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There is also a nice program here that does that and more Yahoo! stuff:

http://www.carbonize.co.uk/Yahoo/messystuff.zip

You can edit/add and delete custom status messages! Very small download, saves editing the registry each time.

June 10, 2003 at 6:06 am #95279

kitty21_129
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hi, not to waste ur time, but I am super new at this, how do I get to this register ur talking about? thnx:o

June 10, 2003 at 6:19 am #95271

Brian
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Start Menu >> Searc >> For Files or Folders >> RegEdit…

You gotta know what you’re doing with regedit otherwise leave it alone, it could do serious pain for your Windows…

http://www.RegEdit.com

June 10, 2003 at 6:23 am #95272

Nhyrvana
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kitty….
you can just make 5 new ones….
old ones gone then…..or rerun messenger installer and it will remove them………
or look here.. http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mesg/mesg-16.html

June 10, 2003 at 7:31 am #95278

kitty21_129
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Thanks, Brian I think I better leave that one alone.

Nhyrvana, looks like ur’s is the safest way for me.

Thnx to both of u.

June 10, 2003 at 11:27 am #95276

freddy
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hey, it’s really not difficult at all.

Editing the registry is only dangerous when people just can’t help but randomly start deleting keys lol

If you do as the instructions say it’s fine!

And once you’ve done it once, you wont be afraid to do it again, and the registry has a lot of things to offer in terms of customising programs. http://www.regedit.com (part of winguides) is a great site of tricks.

There is a registry editing tutorial here http://www.freddys-utilities.co.uk/regedit.php (in my new look, clearer site!) but its not aimed at removing custom messages, but does have backup info.

That program above does it all for you, a friend wrote it based on some info I gave him about the registry keys.
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