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Hello, I just downloaded version 8.0.0.701 this morning and it was working alright. I was chatting with a person and it was all good. I tried connecting to a chat room and my Yahoo Messenger just disconnects. I try reconnecting, it connects and a box says the request took longer than expected. I’ve never had this problem with the older versions! 😡
Is this just one of those silly glitches? Or is it something else…? Any ideas!? 😀
Just give it a little time and try again, that happens with all versions. It happens all the time for me since I always use chat.
I think you might be experencing a ID chat ban. Try waiting 24 hours before trying again. Hopefully it’s not a ban but just a glitch, because if it were a ID ban, it could last for months/years.
But I only created this ID this morning when I got Yahoo Messenger. They wouldn’t have a reason to ban it from chat rooms. 😮 I tried another user name and the exact same thing is happening. :crying:
Did you jump to alot of chat rooms in a short time? Well, if it’s happening with another name, try uninstalling Yahoo completely, and reinstalling it. It might help.
Not on this username I haven’t, I haven’t even been to any chatrooms yet. I only got this username this morning and I wanted to go to a chatroom, I pick a chat room, click on it and Yahoo disconnects on me.
Everytime it disconnects me it says after a short time, ‘Signing in to Chat took longer than expected. Please try again later.’ I have tried this morning and now and it still won’t connect. I’ll try uninstalling it and reinstalling it again. 😉
Did you install the American or Australia version on Yahoo messenger?
there might be a problem with the Australia version.
I think I got the American version. It wasn’t from the Australian Yahoo site anyway. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ That’s where I got it from.
I’m reinstalling it now, it’s taking ages because I have boring old dial up. 😡
Ahh! I reinstalled it and now Yahoo Messenger won’t even work at all. 😡 I think I should just download an older version of Yahoo instead. This new version isn’t very good with my computer and it’s only new! It’s very annoying, it froze up my computer before when it installed and the computer ended up resetting itself. :rolleyes:
I’d suggest the usual complete un- and re-install (including registry cleaning and deleting the yahoo folder from Programs). I’d run a virus scan too, just to make sure you’re not infected with any kind of virus or trojan.
As to the chat problem, im not sure what it is, but it may just be a yahoo thing. When i sign into chat, it takes quite long time and my messenger miraculously sets itself to “invisible for everyone”, and alot of my friends currently have problems signing into chat at all.Hi, yuna
Looks to me that your firewall is hindering your connection.
Reason it wont work now is either the new exe has not been allowed or your actual download of the messenger was corrupted!Try changing your connection settings in messenger preferences and make sure your firewall has given messenger full access to function properly.
Is your Dialup very slow?..this could be a catalyst for been disconnected, or if your connection is been used up by other things like p2p programs etc.
magun wrote:No it not a virus.No, I don’t think it is a virus because I did a virus scan last night and nothing showed up. I am installing again now, if it doesn’t work this time.. I’m going to download an older version of Yahoo.
Thank you for all the tips! 😀
My dial up connection is sort of slow sometimes but I’ve never had these problems with Yahoo before, every now and then I might off but not like this. Oh and I did change the settings to allow the firewall access. It didn’t connect at all until I changed that.
We’ll see what happens when I install it again. I’ll post a report after it’s done. :p
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