idle time

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August 31, 2004 at 7:28 am #2498

supergirl17
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hello All,
Can anyone tell me that how/when does the messenger show the status as ‘idle’ and it shows the idle time also? Is there a possibility that a person is actually ‘away’ from the computer but something might be happening on his or her screen that might have stopped the idle status to appear? What does the interaction mean anyway? Is it when u move the mouse or can it be broken by anything else also?

Thank you,
Supergirl 🙂

August 31, 2004 at 11:30 am #38915

trust_no_1711
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In preferences you can select if you want to appear idle or not and also for how long. The idle staus shows when u dont use your computer for the amount of time that you have set it to. By this I mean if u do not touch your computer at all. Once you start to move the mouse or click anything on the keyboard the idle staus would disappear.

there are programes out there though that allow u to ‘fake’ idle but I havent used them so dont know much about them, hope this is of some help 🙂

August 31, 2004 at 3:08 pm #38916

amy_d_g
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Also I have noticed that the idle doesn’t always work right for me. Sometimes I’ll be working in another program, and when I close it out I’ll be idle… I’ve even had it happen when I’m playing yahoo games for some odd reason. I am running windows 98 on a really old system though, so that might be why… but my new pc will be here this week YAY!!! 😉

August 31, 2004 at 10:52 pm #38914

herberg2
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You’re not the only one — myself and everyone I know who uses the newest Yahoo Messenger on a Win9x/WinME system has the same experience. Idle time is now completely broken for us. Unless you’re actually using the Yahoo Messenger itself, you will be set as idle at your preset time — even if you’re actively using your computer. It’s been especially inconvenient since Yahoo doesn’t have the ability to automatically change status message after a pre-determined amount of time. So our choices are either disable idle time completely making people believe we are always there … or keep it enabled and risk having people believe we are not there even if we are.
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