Changing skins in Yahoo! Messenger 9.0
April 1, 2008 on 10:16 am | In 9.0 version, Features | 134 Comments
Our 9.0 version contains a whole new family of skins you can choose from to jazz up your IM window.
When you choose a new skin it changes the design of the headers of your contact list as well as your IM conversation window (and adds some accents in other areas).
To change your skin in Yahoo! Messenger 9.0, click the gold dot up near the top of the contact list window. It’s located near the minimize / mazimize / close buttons. Once the skin menu appears, hover your mouse on a skin to view it, then click to select it.
There are currently seven skins to choose from in Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 including graffiti, green fantasia, icy blue and violet flame.
Sarah Bacon
Product Manager
LOVE THE SKIN COLORS!!
Comment by Amanda Quinn — April 1, 2008 #
OMG, all those skin colors are perfect for when you are chatting, and when you are not in the best mood possible. When I change the skin, it feels so cool and makes me feel better, because I can express myself more.
Comment by zeidyris — April 1, 2008 #
those skins are sick
Comment by RayW — April 1, 2008 #
WOW. ^_^ Wait for a minute I thought there were more added. You guys should add a black one ^_^ I’d download 9.0 if there was a black skin there. If I was making the skin (which I have NO IDEA HOW to make one) I’d make one that was pearl black with pearl gray flames or stripes, I don’t know what the background highlights are called.
Anyone agree? Black skin….
Comment by Homer — April 1, 2008 #
yea… black skin would be cool
Comment by ariady — April 1, 2008 #
I DEFINATELY think the black skin would be perfect, I was just thinking the same thing actually when I was looking at the skins. I think the skins that are available now are great, but too colorful, I think we need some neutrality. Anyone agree?
Comment by Edgar Winter — April 1, 2008 #
thats is good
Comment by bissooo — April 2, 2008 #
Wow, Cool
Comment by Sunil — April 2, 2008 #
More shiny wrapper. =) Hype up existing features. Great.
Comment by !!SGFC!! — April 2, 2008 #
omg!! dats so freakin kewl!!!!! hahaha
Comment by Melanie — April 2, 2008 #
Umm.. Its awesome.. those skins.. great!
(..umm black skin would be cool! No offence!)
Hmm.. I was excited wif this new version.. BUT!!! then I experienced “auto restart” for my ym and msn! WTF!!?? O_o” LOL..
..N guess wat did i do? I uninstall ym 9.0 n reinstall ym 8.0 … sux tho.. -_-”"
Comment by Beck — April 2, 2008 #
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ya! the black skin would be cool
Comment by Zack — April 3, 2008 #
yeah i agree also.. it would be a really great kool addition to the skins selection.
Comment by zane — April 3, 2008 #
Rubbish – make it stable before you make more skins, pathetic, really pathetic.
Comment by Tommy — April 3, 2008 #
But where’s the classic skin? I only like the standard Window. I can’t find that option
Comment by Cliff S — April 3, 2008 #
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Pingback by Nuevas skins para Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 — April 4, 2008 #
Lovely feature. Just what messenger needs. A nice new wrapper to cover up the never ending and continuously worsening function of the program. It may not work worth a darn, but it looks pretty! GREAT way to spend company time.
Comment by Bill — April 4, 2008 #
Sarah,
I was just wondering when will the actual not beta 9.0 version be coming out?
Comment by two_psycho_rats — April 4, 2008 #
two_psycho_rats,
Sorry – I don’t have any definitive information on when 9.0 will come out of Beta. Stay tuned!
Sarah Bacon
Comment by Administrator — April 4, 2008 #
Yes, an all black skin in the next release please!!!
Comment by Parry Hotter — April 4, 2008 #
Sounds good, (this coming from a formerly dedicated but slowly converting 5.6 user
), but will there ever be an option to just use the default Windows skin? (like you can in 8.1 now)
Comment by Cliff S — April 4, 2008 #
Oh, I forgot to ask this! Will we be able to make our OWN skins? Now THAT would be cool
Comment by Cliff S — April 4, 2008 #
well its cool enough but the skins are all bright and too ache to my eyes and my friends. cn you have a seasonal skins to offered to your subscrbr?
Comment by liezl — April 4, 2008 #
good tho the skins so eye catching can you have some friendly skins and more features too.
Comment by liezl — April 4, 2008 #
Hmm I just joined today, gotta love the skins and the 9.0 yim
Comment by Tamara — April 4, 2008 #
Oh by the way, how about customizable skins, where we can choose a cedrrtain design to which ever color background available…like black and white polka dots, or red flames w/ yellow background…w/e just spilling out ideas
Comment by Tamara — April 4, 2008 #
Just make sure you include the classic skin, you will lose a lot of users to third party software alternatives if you do not include a native skin option. That is software design 101. Seriously guys…. come on.
Comment by blarg — April 5, 2008 #
I like the classic skin, but these are pretty cool too. Do let us make our own too!
Comment by Cliff S — April 5, 2008 #
Looking through the Y!IM directory, the skins for this are in /skins/, with alot of subfolders. Maybe someone can create an all black one using one of these as a template?
Sarah: Is this possible? If so, I see a whole new world of personalization for this
Comment by Cliff S — April 5, 2008 #
Hi everyone.
I found this blog on accident, and noticed some of you wanted a black skin for Yahoo Messenger 9.
Well, also on accident, I found a skin that somebody created. What luck, right?
http://www.boogiesbc.ro/darkside-yahoo-messenger-9-skin.html
Hope this helps.
Comment by Tyler B. — April 6, 2008 #
Me again!
Know what would be really cool for this? A coca-cola skin
Comment by Cliff S — April 6, 2008 #
That’s really cool Tyler B! Thanks for pointing that out.
Sarah Bacon
Comment by Administrator — April 7, 2008 #
I agree with the black skin notion. Green is my favorite color, and Im loving the green skin, but I would also like to be able to go with a black one 2. just to change it up every now and then. Or maybe you can do a green and black one, like a lime green highlight to a black background. That would be sexy
Comment by Reason — April 7, 2008 #
yahoo is being racist for not including a black skin and a white skin…
Comment by Josh — April 8, 2008 #
omg this is awesome! i getto change my color to suite my mood. ohh have to check out the site that tyler posted to see whats there. thanks for for giving us an update on the new 9.0. looking forward to having more fun with my yahoo!
Comment by peggy — April 9, 2008 #
Why is only the top being styled? Can’t there be something done with the background of the rest of the client? I mentioned this when v9 beta first came out. If your going to spend the time to make the styled headers why not make a background color or something less bland to accompany it..
But dont get me wrong the headers are great..
Comment by Matt S. — April 10, 2008 #
i dont even have the option 2 change the skin. there is no gold dot. can anyone help?
Comment by Jessi — April 10, 2008 #
Yea…the black one would be really nice.
Comment by A. M. D — April 12, 2008 #
hey i think it’s pretty cool to put skins on your messenger. it may express your feeling and or your emotions if you choose!!!!!!!! :^)
Comment by riquessa — April 17, 2008 #
You are the best
Comment by RADIO — April 19, 2008 #
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Comment by randy — April 19, 2008 #
Woww…. I love these new color skins… Looks so nice…
And if YM can be just like MSN a little bit, can creates a lot emoticons, it would be lots of funs…
Cheers to you YM
Comment by Momoko Tsukino — April 19, 2008 #
the best messenger is version 9.0:D:D:D:P:P:P:P
Comment by TU YO SHY-O UNMBRELA — April 19, 2008 #
where my old yahoo friends and folders they gone to. i like the skins and i had telephone and paid $10 but lost that to?
Comment by how come my beta just gone — April 19, 2008 #
i think that it would be really great if i could download more skins for yahoo messenger 9.0, im getting a little bored of these ones, i think a red one and a bronze one would be nice
Comment by kaytee — April 20, 2008 #
I am all about customizing my tools… I like to modify them to suit my needs, and moods. I love almost everything about the new Yahoo Messenger – my biggest disappointment is with the limitation in skins. In previous versions, there was an enormous amount of skins available from third-party developers – there are none for 9.0… I’m limited to only seven skins that come with the program
Comment by Mishell — April 21, 2008 #
I like the whole thing and am satisfied, thank you Yahoo!
Comment by John MacLean — April 21, 2008 #
Thx! it’s Great! i totally tod my friend and we dig it thx!
~pookaboost! lol @_@ ~
Comment by Pookaboost — April 22, 2008 #
which one is better guys?YM! for vista or YM! 9.00?
Comment by handa — April 23, 2008 #
Can I change the yahoo mesenger background?
Comment by tatung — May 5, 2008 #
could we do one with all comic ppl in it?!?
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Comment by bailey_ellis_kennewick — May 13, 2008 #
yea we demand! a black sin for this version! please???? i rili rili want a balck one!
Comment by abby — May 31, 2008 #
I so agree with you^. I hate these current skins.
The older version was better. *sigh*
Comment by Gia — June 4, 2008 #
I would TOTALLY love to be able to make my own skin. I like to coordinate my desktop background and my skins and not all the colors are covered.
Making my own skin would ROCK!!!
Comment by Amy — June 7, 2008 #
ok skins are great but in the days of custom everything almost on the net why cant it be easy for us to make just the right skins for us . aol has been like that from a long time and even aim is like that so why cant yahoo be that way?? i want to show my friends me and useing a display image doesnt alway do me justice come on more feature for customization PLEASE
Comment by Jessi — July 1, 2008 #
I was looking for a way to add new skins to the 9.0 also. The new ones are really neat but I agree with the making of your own skins. It would be great if we could use our own pics, colors, layout of our friends list. There are some items I use and some I don’t, such as my address book being under my list of friends. I want to be able to show/hide that and the ads at the bottom, they can be pretty annoying when you accidently hover over them with your mouse. It gets in the way. I do love my yahoo messenger, for those who scrutinize it, don’t use it. In my opinion it’s way better than MSN, Windows, AIM and ICQ.
Comment by Stacie — July 19, 2008 #
I downloaded and installed the black version listen above by the person that created it. I have to say, I was about to uninstall this version, until I went to black. It is beautiful and elegant. I think one of yahoo’s problems is, they are still making everything in pastels and pansy looking. Who wants that forever… I mean.. the world has proven, time and time again, that fads come and go… Yahoo, Prove to us that you don’t just want to be a fad.. Listen to your users! Don’t stay pastel, as if you were still in the infant stage, you have grown up, and us, with you… Show the maturity in your products….. Yahoo really can be elegant too!
Comment by Frend Projects — July 22, 2008 #
Well it would be nice if they had something where we could create our own design by either a link from the messanger or something like the way they have the avatars…that would be really cool…I like the idea of a black one as well…
Comment by Andy — August 18, 2008 #
is possible to get a yahoo messenger look like a excel sheet or something like this to let me chatting for office please help me i need it because always my manger catch me when am chatting
Comment by jawad — September 8, 2008 #
Definately needs black *sniffles*
Comment by Kacie — September 16, 2008 #
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real great skins!!
Comment by ray — September 26, 2008 #
HELLO FRIENDS PLZ ..Help
Actually Frnds…I clicked on the Golden drop to change the skin & selected the “Custom ‘ option. But then ..my title bar only went off. It looks black when I take my cursor there. So ..I can’t even see the Golden drop option. Plz ..Help ..How to change my skin ..?
Comment by Anudeep — September 29, 2008 #
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GREAT! but does they have other themes/skins for yahoo messenger 9.0???
Comment by Aredeef95 — October 1, 2008 #
it`s beautiful…but does they have other skin for messenger 8.0???;)
:D ..i need a black skin for my messenger to asemanate with windows
Comment by andrey — October 7, 2008 #
Hi andrey,
The final version of 9.0, available at the link below, includes a black skin.
http://messenger.yahoo.com/win
Sarah Bacon
Comment by Administrator — October 7, 2008 #
I really like the black one.
Comment by Jem Lacorte — October 26, 2008 #
i cant add any skins to this 9.0 messenger it wont add matrix theme or work right it sucks
Comment by ws4life16 — October 30, 2008 #
hey! what about orange skin? if there is an orange skin i will surely download yahoo messenger 9.0
Comment by Katrina — November 6, 2008 #
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hi,
I have been using the beta 9.0 beta version and loved it. now I d/l the full version and there seems to b a glitch with the skins…after the d/l it put my skin I had from the beta version and when I went to change it the messenger froze and now the skin inlcuding the top bar of the messenger is GONE!! This also goes for when I open a messenger window, it has NO top bar so I can’t move the window arround or close it. I have to right click on the task bar to close the messenger. This has happend on 2 computers that I have d/l the messenger on both running XP!!! On the first computer it resolved itself but I have no clue how, now I’m stuck with a half A** lookin messenger window. :0(
Comment by Ireen — November 18, 2008 #
WE WANT THE DEFAULT WINDOWS SKIN!
Comment by bummmm — November 24, 2008 #
w0w tnx men tnx I got black
Comment by BloodLast3 — November 26, 2008 #
thanx for skins
Comment by ELaa — November 29, 2008 #
Give us back the classic skin! I don’t know how Yahoo can be so ignorant to their users. I am changing to 3rd party now, at least I get rid of the ads as well.
Comment by Fygo — December 5, 2008 #
how do you get the new skins???
Comment by millie — December 5, 2008 #
Thank you so much!It’s great!!!
Comment by James — December 13, 2008 #
but Just a skin?
Comment by James — December 13, 2008 #
Eew. I hate the new style of the window. Please put in a classic yahoo messenger skin? Its not the colors I hate, but the whole bubble and flashy look that is similar to Windows XP and Vista’s default style.
Comment by Newguyde — January 15, 2009 #
Skin Customization??
Comment by Anonymous — January 17, 2009 #
a very very very white skin would be nice…
Comment by patrick — February 3, 2009 #
Q. how can you tell someone is stupid?
A. If they type to characters o, m, and g in sequence.
Or, if they freaking care in what COLOR an application appears.
Now however strpping the Classic skin from Messenger 9 is a mistake. There are some of us that use a PC to WORK with and not a toy.
Comment by Dan Milina — February 21, 2009 #
how can i download the different screen for yahoo messenger 9??
thanx..
Comment by Richen — February 23, 2009 #
THIS SKIN IS SICK BUT…I CANT GET THE DOWNLOAD!!!!!!Lol
Comment by kameron johnson — March 1, 2009 #
there is a lil problem i this skin.. i choose a purple skin and then its gone.. freakin’ ym skin is gone.. with no skin frames and no Messenger menu for that pull down skin chooser.. its messed up.. how can i fix it?
Comment by monkeymaster — March 10, 2009 #
W E W A N T C L A S S I C !
W I N D O W S D E F A U L T S K I N !
Comment by NO SKIN! — March 21, 2009 #
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I just want that old windows classic blue color skin with no fancy trendy effects !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by User — April 1, 2009 #
Where is the classic skin?
Why would you remove it? Please release a classic skin.
Comment by yahoo!user — April 4, 2009 #
hey guyzz thanx a lot….i was tryin dis rubbish for about 2 hrs n couldnt change dis stupid skin……..wen i checked dis out it was really awesum!!!!!! thanx a lot……
Comment by jenifa — April 5, 2009 #
I refuse to install v9 withought a classic skin, its actually used in offices sometimes to quickly get in touch with co workers as a work tool.
Comment by David G — April 8, 2009 #
Until you put the classic skin back in, I’ll stick to Yahoo Messenger 8.
Comment by Chris — April 10, 2009 #
U GUYS NEED TO MAKE A BLACK AND ORANGE SWIRLE SKIN OR ONE WITH LITTLE SMILEYS ALL OVER IT THAT WOULD BE COOL
Comment by tina — April 15, 2009 #
I loathe this version of Messenger! We’ve ended up trading pretty colours for even smaller menu fonts, making it nigh on impossible to use.
I’m going back to Version 8, or failing that, Trillian.
Comment by Luna — April 20, 2009 #
I really would like to see some hello kitty and other characters for skins! I think everyone would love them!
Comment by James — April 24, 2009 #
I’ll be using v8 until you include a Classic Skin for v9, without that “aero” fancy look.
Comment by Adrian — May 4, 2009 #
i really think you guys should create more skins for yahoo messenger or create a downable program so that we can get more. thank you
bonnie
Comment by bonnie austin — May 5, 2009 #
I can-not change skin color in my new yahoo messenger 9.0 It does not show mw minimise, enlarge and close. I don’t know if it’s because my messenger is too long, or what???This is upsetting!!! Can you please suggest something? Thank-You; Marion
Comment by Marion Cottrell — May 6, 2009 #
CLASSIC SKIN, PLEASE!!!
Comment by Indigo — May 8, 2009 #
not TOUCHING it until you re-release with classic skin, what the HELL were you people smoking when you had the genius idea to remove the classic skin…..
Comment by jas — May 15, 2009 #
UNTIL CLASSIC SKIN ARRIVES WE INTEND TO STICK WITH VERSION 8.0
Comment by bluefaces — May 20, 2009 #
Just give us back the classic skin please!!!
We don’t want color skins, we want the Operating System’s windows!
Comment by Arise — May 21, 2009 #
my bar turned black and now i cant change the color because it got messed up. what do i do?
Comment by b.g. — May 24, 2009 #
i love all the skins. especially the green one.
Comment by Trish — May 30, 2009 #
Where is the option to disable all those )#@()&# skins!!!?
Comment by MG — May 30, 2009 #
Sarah and the other folks at Yahoo, will you PLEASE stop ignoring the many requests for a classic Windows skin option? Believe it or not, not all Yahoo Messenger users are mentally challenged 13 year old girls. Many of us would appreciate being able to use the operating system’s default theme, as in older versions. The glitzy “new look” may be fine for the kiddies, but for the rest of us, it’s crap.
For now, I’m going back to version 8. The new features aren’t worth losing the classic option for.
Comment by John — May 30, 2009 #
I am disappointed that now I can’t FULLY SKIN my YahooMessenger ! ! ! ! I miss that when I had the older versions of yahoo – - how sad ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
Comment by Jackie — May 31, 2009 #
The new messenger colors SUCK! They are TOO PASTEL and the text is unreadable.
Who in hell made all these idiotic comments above about how “cool” the new skins are.
Take these skins and shove them. Give us back a readable messenger with a Professional Graphics look. This is so crappy!
Comment by John — June 1, 2009 #
my god…yahoo mesngr 9th version sux…i wl reinstall….8th version….ds is cheee….8th 1 is much better….
Comment by saloni — June 2, 2009 #
add some more skin or give the messenger a better look
Comment by Cliff — June 4, 2009 #
i wish YM version 9.0 copuld have more skins to select to like cartoons, anime, and not single plain colors..pls. update this version soon so we can enjoy it more and please add new emoticons…thanks..
Comment by eula — June 4, 2009 #
You guys shoul make alot of new skin so if we get really tired of it then we change the skin. an anime one or a a rainbow one would be awsome!
Comment by Dani — June 6, 2009 #
Still using version 8/or other messenger w/ YM support. All skins included are good BUT NOT FOR EVERYONE. Bring back the classic skin support. PLEASE, seriously.
Comment by CLASSICisWIN — June 9, 2009 #
LOLZ !
stop complaining !
why need to complain ?
u want skin , Google it !
Comment by HAHA — June 20, 2009 #
please please gave us the classic skin, i beg you
Comment by arifandi — June 21, 2009 #
unfortunately just had to try this because i kept getting a system notification about my messenger version getting suspended..
now i see that classic (no skin) is gone and so will this version. i don’t know what programming moron decided to remove classic cairo api so my version(7) will be killed so be it..not worth the trouble. yahoo has lost search engines war long ago and obviously with that path into programming crap, it’s going to loose much more in the future.
miranda.
Comment by ymessfked — June 30, 2009 #
here’s a workaround to get a windows-based theme(aka classic)
first make sure to use/select the ‘default’ theme
open yahoo mess folder, go to skins then to default folder..there you will find a folder called theme, delete it
this is only a work around, there will be some redraw problems when resizing the window etc but atleast you’ll get a half-decent yahoo following windows native api
Comment by ymessfked — June 30, 2009 #
..and i’ll still be deleting that piece of sh**
Comment by ymessfked — June 30, 2009 #
I like all of it.
Comment by Mark — July 6, 2009 #
Cool! Very creative. The new yahoo has more great features! Always getting better.
Comment by Violet — July 7, 2009 #
I NEED CLASSIC SKIN TOO!
Comment by woots29 — July 12, 2009 #
I like only the black skin from there new skins however I don’t know why the classic skin (windows skin) is not available anymore. On windows vista and windows 7 this option makes the skin look very cool. Yahoo messenger 8 had this option but 9 doesn’t have it. Why?
Comment by uniquedarkboy — August 14, 2009 #
Go back to native windows style.
Give back the classic skin of yahoo messenger.
Comment by EXTAS studio — August 18, 2009 #
I’ve applied the last theme in yahoo messenger 9 by clicking on gold dot up near the top of the contact list window. Now i want to apply another theme. But i can’t do this because that theme disappeared that gold dot.
Now what should i do to change the theme??
Comment by Vinay — August 27, 2009 #
@Vinay – You can also change skins by going to Messenger > Preferences > Appearance.
Sarah Bacon
Comment by Administrator — August 27, 2009 #
Thanks Sarah….
It sorted out my problem..
Comment by Vinay — August 29, 2009 #
Sarah, Thank you so much for that information. It worked for me, too.
Comment by Dee Sumere — September 4, 2009 #
The skin information really helped me. Thanks
Comment by anu — September 4, 2009 #
Give back the classic skin of yahoo messenger.
Comment by Bogdan — September 21, 2009 #
I have changed the skin and now it is not possible for me to even see the icons like close,minimise,maximse etc wht needs to b done.
Comment by Sandhya — October 18, 2009 #
when using the graffiti skin and typing a msg, instead of seeing XXX is typing a message it has little insults like, XXXX is typing with two fingers and XXXX is typing a good comeback etc.
DOES ANYONE ELSE KNOW ABOUT THIS?
Comment by sherrie — October 30, 2009 #
I bet the designer must be a little kid or so, who likes it colorful and forgets the first rule in designing: KISS!
Or you even have never heard of KISS?
KEEP IT SIMPLE, STUPID!!!!
Comment by Thanh — October 31, 2009 #