Yahoo Messenger FAQ

Well bots are always being created and if one gets deleted 10 could replace it easily. The only way to stop this would be to require people to show more proof of identity when they register for an account, which isn’t going to happen anytime soon, since people wouldn’t go for it and Yahoo! would lose out on potential users. So it’s probably not worth it to them to stop bots.

It really depends on the Terms of Service violation. If the complaint is found to be true and severe enough, Yahoo! will delete the violating user’s ID.

As you may have noticed, there’s no longer a Super Webcam button in Yahoo! Messenger. It’s not that yahoo had taken this feature away or that you’ve lost functionality, but rather that yahoo made upgrades so this enhanced connection is now available to all users. Hence, no need to choose it – it’s always on for you.

You can control the frame rate a little with the slide bar in webcam preferences, move the slide between faster speed and better quality.

Frame rate estimates:

Best Quality – 1 frame a second
Faster Speed – 3 frames a second
Small Cam – 5 frames a second

Thanks to Cchris78 for this and for more information read this thread, HERE.

NO, if they are using a newer Yahoo! Messenger, you will always show up as “Add request pending” on their buddylist so they will not know when you’re online and won’t be able to view your status messages. (But with an older version of Yahoo! Messenger, and some third party Messengers, they will be able to see you as online and they will be able to see your status messages.)

Can’t see you own text or anybody else in Chat or IM ?

This could be caused by a scripting issue.

Close Yahoo! Messenger and all IE (internet explorer) windows

When you send or receive an instant message and no message appears, you probably have scripting disabled in your Internet Explorer.

To enable scripting:

1. Click the “Tools” menu on your Internet Explorer toolbar and select “Internet Options.”
2. Click the “Security” tab.
3. Click the Internet (globe) icon and click the “Custom Level” button.
4. Scroll down to “Scripting.”
5. Enable the following:
* Active scripting
* Allow paste operations via script
* Scripting of Java applets are all enabled
6. Click the “OK” button at the bottom of the window.

Note: Restart Yahoo! Messenger and you should start seeing text in your IM windows again.

If this does not work please try the following

go to Start – then Run – then type regsvr32 jscript.dll – then press OK

then

go to Start – then Run – then type regsvr32 vbscript.dll – then press OK

This should fix the issue.

if you still have issues you can try this user submitted fix by stupidisasstupiddoes

Method B

Open the registry Key HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionInternet SettingsZones

You will see this…

You will see the invalid node [] (could also be a L or something else) at the top!

You need only close messenger, delete that single out of place node then restart messenger.

You should always have 0,1,2,3,4 nodes intact.

These hold all your IE browser settings for surfing and local browser controls, like the IE browser control used in chat clients including the chatscreen and pm windows of yahoo messenger.

Yahoo! Messenger ignores (nearly) everyone in the chat room.

Workaround: This is because there is a bug in the ‘Ignore anyone who is not on my Messenger List’ feature. To correct this..

• Go to the Yahoo! Preferences
• Then go to Ignore List
• Select ‘Ignore only the people below:’
• Press Apply then ok