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1. Besides the security update can Yahoo! offer a patch for Voice Chat in Chatrooms and make it work in Windows Vista too? We the users of Vista feel left out as Yahoo! keeps neglecting this issue forever. If only you would provide such an update which could make it work again there wouldn’t be anymore complaints over it. Its even worse for us because if we don’t have voice chat we are forced to use text based chat wherein all the screen is filled with messages from Bots or Booters (trying to lag the room with random chat strings specially webdings). Please help us.

   Comment by Rick — July 2, 2007 #

2. im vista and the voice works fine in chatrooms . aaabbb yu need the truespeech codec installed from http://www.bytescribe.com and Y Tunnel Pro…..looks like chet simpson was ahead of the game again yahoooooo

   Comment by steve — July 3, 2007 #

3. When will Vista users actualy get the new “Vista only” messenger? I can take a beta,ALPHA,or PRE ALPHA! Maybe if u get a public test on it,it will be released sooner!

   Comment by otto888 — July 3, 2007 #

4. Yeah, users were waiting for the new Vista messenger since January. It is past second quarter and no beta or a release date. Only that “it will be released in the coming months”.

   At least they could have posted an explanation why they are still developing it.

   Comment by Dragos — July 3, 2007 #

5. I have installed truespeech, it doesn’t help!
   I have installed Y!Tiunnel! It doesn’t help!
   I have installed Kazoo! Doesn’t help!

   Comment by Tommy — July 4, 2007 #

6. i have installed yahoo messanger and i was unable to download because of security update

   Comment by shalu — July 5, 2007 #

7. I can’t get any version of 8.1 to work on Vista without crashing Firefox every time I go to Yahoo Mail. Forget hiring designers to make pretty skins for the Vista Messenger, can we just get one that WORKS first? Pleeeease?

   Comment by Al — July 5, 2007 #

8. Curious as to when your chat servers will work the right way. It takes forever to get into chat ot you get in and the window does not come up. When you are asked for answers, you give a round about answer. If you don’t know, then say so. Also, if your servers aren’t working then post something to let us know this on your webpage. Common sense goes a long way. Listen to your users and quit worrying about bing cheap and spend the money it takes to make it work right. Keep going and your users will go elsewhere. You will go out of business. BE SPECIFIC in your answers to our questions.

   Comment by mong00s3 — July 5, 2007 #

9. For the vista users out there that are STILL having “issues” with the voice on yahoo, here is a site that I installed, I know have “voice” in yahoo chat rooms and conferences.. Hope it works for you too! first off go to your control panel to the “uninstall” section aka add/remove programs, make sure yahoo messenger is in there, if it IS then run this site, if it’s not (and trust me, I’ve found out with vista that it DOESN’T have to be in your add/remove programs to be valid, just simply go and redownload it, no need to delete or uninstall the other one, then double check again to see if it’s in the add/remove programs, if so, load this site.. Keep it in a saved file in your mail (preferiably yahoo) cause sometimes you have to uninstall it and reinstall it..

   http://www.yazakpro.com/chatstuff/yahoo/vistayahoovoicefix.html

   no need to reboot yahoo nor your system after you install it, just go to a room or conference and WAH LAH you have voice on yahoo with VISTA!…

   Comment by Hiedi — July 6, 2007 #

10. good lord i can never get in to chat and when i do lalalal i have voice but what the heck good is it if i cnt talk to my freinds

    Comment by carol — July 7, 2007 #

11. I was camming with a new friend on yahoo messenger recently. After about a minute I noticed that I was watching myself on my friends cam too. In other words with the two cams opened I could see myself on both cams….Can anyone figure that out?

    Comment by tom — July 10, 2007 #

12. Anyone having problems getting IM’s from other Yahoo members? I have Vista and have re-installed messenger 3 times. But, other who are using an older messenger will IM me and I never get them. Also, my messenger will re-boot and re-log in several times in a day. HELP! losing friendships over this, they think i am ignoring them!!!!.

    Comment by denise — July 12, 2007 #

13. Hi Denise,

    Sorry to hear you’re having problems with 8.1 on Vista. I recommend trying Yahoo! Messenger for the Web which works with your web browser (no install required). Just go to http://web.im and sign in with your Yahoo! ID. Your friends list will appear there when you sign in.

    Sarah Bacon

    Comment by Administrator — July 13, 2007 #

14. Since I installed Vista, and upgraded Yahoo IM to 2.1.0.402, I cannot choose “appear offline to this contact”. It’s either online or offline permanently.

    Can anyone help ??

    Comment by Annette — July 13, 2007 #

15. Honestly I dont know what you vista people are complaining about OS X and Linux yahoo doesnt have voice chat never did, As for Yahoo!’s incompetence everyone knows they dont know what they are doing. This is an extremely irresponsible company with very poor business practices and customer support. but hey remember deep down YAHOO CHAT IS FREE! so get over it

    Comment by Doug Maupin — July 17, 2007 #

16. I’m losing my mind forreal, I come back home from school over there summer and get a new computer after two years yall aint get vista up yet? I’m losing my mind in the chatrooms can’t hear a thing folks want me to talk how? Hell! I can’t even hear what they are saying…..Plz Tight’n UP ASAP!

    Comment by fla_dimplez — July 18, 2007 #

17. Mine says that the tsp _ codec is already installed but i have no voice.

    Comment by bluewolverine — July 20, 2007 #

18. i installed the tsp codec but it doesnt help with voice chat on yahoo messenger. if you download trillian you can get voice there though. trillian sucks but its better than not having any voice at all.

    Comment by jeweladdict — July 22, 2007 #

19. i just got a windows vista comp. and every time i try to sign in, it says to confugure your proxy or firewall settings or click on help, but i tryed both and neither worked. so what do i do??

    Comment by ashley — July 29, 2007 #

20. voice in chatroom now works on my vista ultimate. just uninstall old ym, re-install the new ym version 8.1.0.21 and tsp codec. bingoooooo….

    Comment by jun — September 28, 2007 #

21. correction: should have read ym version 8.1.0.421

    Comment by jun — September 28, 2007 #

22. what to do……..I have Windows Vista and cannot voice in chat room. I am able to hear, but cannot voice. I have check mic and it is installed correctly I believe……..why can I hear but I cant voice?

    Comment by Lin — March 1, 2008 #

23. hi. i am using windows vista & problem is when using messenger i cant hear others voice but they can.its really annoying me…

    Comment by shivesh — September 20, 2008 #

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