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The most annoying thing about all Odigo versions is that whoever writes them refuses to support multiple monitors (common feature since Windows 98 SE and especially on Windows XP). Most of us have far too many things running and eventually realized that it would be no good to our eyesight to keep making the fonts smaller, so assuming the computer has an AGP graphics card and a couple of old monitors are out there, it’s not very hard to plug in a couple of old PCI graphics card and let windows find them.
So Odigo (and ICQ) are the only major chat programs that dont like being moved to a secondary monitor. MSN not only goes there but stays there every time you restart it, Yahoo will not start in there but can be moved there. The only way to get Odigo in the second monitor is to resize the screen to 800×600 while its positioned in the right hand corner at 1600×1200 and that only works sometimes.
It would appear that it is an internet Explorer-related Java problem.
Before I got locked out, the only noticeable problem was that the pop-up window whenever I would start messenger would only appear half the time (sometimes when windows reboos, sometimes if I had to actually shut down messenger for whatever reason and restart it).
Internet Explorer 6.0.288.1106.xpsp2.021108-1929 is the version I have. The problem occured about 6 hours after the latest windows update changed a few things. There is no easy way to restore the system to the way it was. However, considering I cannot even load the Java version of messenger, it looks like Microsoft’s efforts to stop supporting their Java Virtual Machine and Yahoo’s efforts to create webpages with Java have crossed. It is up to Yahoo to fix it. About the only thing I can do is get another Windows XP computer which won’t be for a while….
Quote:quote:Originally posted by NettiWhen you go to yahoo help and look up this problem, this is what Yahoo says:
“If you receive this error message, please be aware that we are working on this problem and expect to have it resolved very soon. We apologize for the inconvenience.”
Theoretically yes. However, you may be surprised to hear that (I am in the UK) since this problem has happened, accessing the yahoo help pages is actually not possible. In fact, even trying to go to http://www.yahoo.com does not work, and even trying to start the java version of messenger on this computer no longer works (comes up with a message to update the microsoft java virtual machine, which is no longer officially available and not installed on this computer). All help pages to do with messenger and anything to do with reporting messenger bugs simply do not display on my browser, nevertheless all other yahoo-related sites and pages work just fine. It would appear that not only I cannot login to messenger, but I am also locked out from accessing any messenger help, so it has to be more than a bug that caused this.
I am another victim of the Invalid Login message after using Yahoo Messenger for 3 years and only for instant messaging (no chat rooms).
I have broadband at home and barring power failures and computer crashes Yahoo Messenger has been running most of the past 3 years. It would start automatically every time the computer would reboot and any time the connection was lost and the computer reconnected to the net; I never shut messenger down.
Two weeks ago, I went for an interview out of town, and accessed messenger from a large internet cafe. I was in a hurry and the connection was too slow to download it and install it for some reason, so I used the Java version instead. Everything seemed to work fine, I managed to talk to some friends online, left, came back home, messenger was running just fine. Precisely 8 days later I started getting the Invalid Login message and appears there is a messenger ban, but email works.
I can only come up with three possible explanations:
1) Someone who had previously used the IP address of the internet cafe I was using for about an hour (there are 200 terminals at that city center location) must have been banned from yahoo for breaking their TOS, and yahoo decided that everyone else who ever used that IP address in say the last six months must also be banned. So effectively I’m locked out from my account because I happened to travel 400 miles for a day to go to a job interview, used an internet cafe for an hour, said hi to two friends and came home the next day! If that theory is correct, I would find it an unacceptable policy.
2) Yahoo thought someone was trying to use messenger from another location or that I was sharing my password with someone miles away (as would have been seen from the ID, 432 miles in this case) and decided to block access to messenger. Even if this was to make sense, if this is the reason, yahoo should be very well aware that many users prefer to leave messenger on, and if they access it from elsewhere then yahoo will come up with “you’ve been logged out as you have been logged in to a different computer” or something similar. I don’t see why I should shut down messenger when being away for a day, and even worse, if I was to miss any messages I’d like to see them when I get home and messenger restarts there and have the archiving on, not in an internet cafe where they (offline messages) would be lost once I leave.
Perhaps the new version of yahoo has a direct option to go away and promptly log out from your home yahoo without causing security alerts.
Incidentally, my computer at home was logged in non-stop (no crash) for 14 days when yahoo messenger stopped working. I’ve rebooted since but it made no change at all.3) By using the Java version, someone managed to block my account even though I chatted or messaged no one new.
Either way, it’s an annoying feature and naturally no real messages from yahoo (none at all actually) about it.
