Yahoo! Messenger 10: Final version now available
November 12, 2009 on 7:37 pm | In 10 version | 189 Comments
Thanks to all of you who tried out Yahoo! Messenger 10 during the Beta period and provided feedback about your experience.
As of today, Yahoo! Messenger 10 is no longer in Beta. You can download the final version from our website. This latest version (10.0.0.1102) incorporates many bug fixes, including some related to our new video call feature. We’ve also improved the overall stability of the product.
If you’re a Windows 7 user, you’ll be glad to know this version is compatible with the new operating system.
Below is a summary of the features that are in Yahoo! Messenger 10. Be sure to watch the demo video at the end of this article for a quick tour.
High-quality video calls
We’ve completely redesigned our 1:1 webcam feature (under the hood too). Now you can make a high-quality video call to a friend with synched audio, right in the IM window. Features include the ability to swap video windows, position the video windows side-by-side, mute the call or place it on hold. You can even go full-screen with your video call. To get started, click the new “Video Call” button in the IM window (your friend also needs to be on Yahoo! Messenger 10). Tips for making video calls | Having fun with video effects
New “Y! Updates” view of your contact list
People are busy these days, doing all sorts of interesting things online. To help you keep up with your friends, we added an alternate view of your contact list that shows a real-time stream of their updates, including Messenger status message changes. If they’ve opted-in to share their updates via Yahoo!, you’ll be able to see what they’re saying on Twitter, reading on Yahoo! Buzz, listening to on last.fm, and more.
We also added additional features for how and when you see your friends’ updates. When a new update comes in, a “toast” alert will pop up in the lower right corner of your screen. If you want to disable these, go to Messenger > Preferences > Yahoo! Updates. You can turn alerts on and off and even update preferences by contact or by type of update.
Find more to chat about
Within the new “Yahoo! Updates” view, you’re sure to find more to talk about with your friends. To make it easy, we added a hover menu that lets you quickly IM a friend about their update. When you do, the update appears inline in the conversation window, so when you start your IM with “I can’t believe you like this song!”, your friend will know what you’re talking about. Note that your friend needs to also be on Yahoo! Messenger 10 to see the update inline.
Change your language easily
If you use the U.S. version but wish it could be in your local language, you’re in luck. When you start up Yahoo! Messenger 10, you’ll notice a new language menu on the sign-in screen. Choose from 16 different languages and the buttons, menus and various parts of the interface will change to that language. If you’re already signed in, you can also change your language under Messenger > Preferences > Language (you’ll have to restart Yahoo! Messenger for it to take effect).
As with any new release, we welcome your feedback about what’s working well for you and what’s not. After using Yahoo! Messenger 10 for a bit, go to the Help menu and select “Send Feedback” to get started.
Sarah Bacon
Product Manager
Awesome.. can’t wait to test it out.
Comment by Vinayak — November 12, 2009 #
Thank you Sarah, great job by you and your team. TGIF is right on time.
Comment by Henryk — November 12, 2009 #
so thats it?
why yahoo doesnt care about all the people who have requested aero and transparency effects?
sigh ….
Comment by Rouzbeh — November 12, 2009 #
Hi! Love the new version, but can’t find the launchcast plugin. Anybody can help? Thanks!
Comment by Grumphus — November 13, 2009 #
I’m sorry, but from what I saw on the other post, everyone was requesting system integration with Vista and 7. Did you listen to all those people and made a skin that looks like it’s from the same operating system?
Comment by Lucretiu — November 13, 2009 #
This isn’t an valid update. (its more like an adware)
Ok so what about all the people that requested the remove of Y! Updates because those people like me have other better things to do beside making traffic on yahoo sites!!!!!!
And what about Y inside I see appears too on the interface?
Can those 2 feature be removed by the user as I requested on the beta and so other people?
From what I see this is just an update meant to bring more revenue to yahoo…
If I wold like to see what others are doing I wold use tweeter, face book and so on…
I believe that Y! Updates uses RAM (and considering I don’t need it) so no performance update.
No interface needed update!
No integration with Win 7.
Comment by Mircea — November 13, 2009 #
I have downloaded the new yahoo messenger 10 and i try to install it, but i received an error. It’s the first time when i see this.
Here are some screenshots with yahoo messenger installation error.
1st – http://i37.tinypic.com/1267ckl.jpg
i’ve tried to click on retray but no results, and when i click on cancel here is what it’s said:
2nd – http://i35.tinypic.com/iqjyc1.jpg
I can’t install yahoo messenger, and i realy need it. So please let me know whan shall i do ?
Comment by JR — November 13, 2009 #
Whenever you instant message a user that is offline. You see this message
“username appears to be offline and will receive your messages after signing in. You can also send a message to username’s mobile phone.
Send an SMS Message (Ctrl+T)”
Is that really necessary? I mean what if the person isn’t mobile or offline. Maybe they’re just invisible.
Comment by SGFC — November 13, 2009 #
tank you for yahoo messenger group
Comment by Boken — November 13, 2009 #
Wow, another hit&miss by the Y!M developers crew
I was hoping the 10th release would change my mind in using other clients… but now I’m sure: Pidgin is the answer.
Comment by rats — November 13, 2009 #
It is sometimes difficult to log in with Version 10 in Windows 7. Please give me an update for that. Thanks.
Comment by Huu Dung Nguyen — November 13, 2009 #
Dear Staff;
The “new” Yahoo Messenger looks great.
I plan to use it a lot.
However, what happened to the chat room > “Salsa para los Rumberos”.
This chat room brought people from all over the globe who have a passion for Salsa music.
Thank you!
Comment by NuYoRican DeCorazon — November 13, 2009 #
So, Yahoo’s idea of a new version is to just mix up the features and call it a new version? Get on the ball! Everyone else has already caught on to Windows 7, why can’t Yahoo? Oh, that’s right, Yahoo isn’t capable of doing the right thing. Which is the reason for canning the WPF version of Yahoo, which was leaps and bounds better than this crappy rehash of a client they continue to push out since 2004. You’re not fooling me by simply calling it “10″. When I know in reality, it’s just version 8.2.
Comment by Marcus McCurdy — November 13, 2009 #
I know that not everybody love the transparency, but why yahoo can’t integrate with 7 look, or make skins for all kinds of users?
Comment by R3BoRN — November 13, 2009 #
I downloaded the final release of Y!M 10 (coming from the very first Y!M 10 Beta release) a few hours ago, used it since then and everything seems to be good so far. No lag, no crashing whatsoever. I really don’t understand why some people keep complaining about Yahoo! Messenger. Firstly – correct me if I’m wrong but the service was mainly designed to keep in touch with family and friends by IMing, voice chatting and now thanks to the newest version, we can also video chat in high quality video. IMO, those are the main and best features most people would use. Other things are just gimmicks if you ask me.
Comment by robert szombati — November 13, 2009 #
Here is a big bug, that was not fixed.
I need to rename my contacts. Please help me.
I can’t rename my contacts. It sais “A contact with the same Yahoo ID already exists”.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091111055704AACcH2j
And another case:
http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090914052517AA5TTnY
Comment by R3BoRN — November 13, 2009 #
Even though I chose a custom installation and unchecked all of the boxes, Yahoo still decided to change my home page, default search engine, and added shortcuts to various places on my computer. I’ve uninstalled, and will be telling everyone not to use this crap anymore.
Comment by Very Angry — November 13, 2009 #
Since a LOT of Romanians are using this program I would expect that it would have this language. Since I see no respect for us I am going to move to Google Wave as soon as it became public. Here I see there is a waste of my time…
Comment by haiucul — November 13, 2009 #
It doesn’t work with the macbook pro’s microphone under Win7:(
Comment by puska kellett volna bazdmeg — November 13, 2009 #
Thanks for this wonderful update, but still… You’ve finished a new Windows version in merely a few months, but you are still keeping the Mac version in beta since last year, or more. Please, don’t give the Mac users to damn… We really need a new version too.
I’m currently using Windows, Mac AND Linux. To ask for a Linux version it’s like asking for a cat to bark, you won’t do it anyway, but please… Put a bit your effort into the Mac version too.
Many thanks! ^^
Comment by Geo ^^ — November 13, 2009 #
You really disappointed me…this version doesn’t have Romanian language …a large percentage of Romanian use Yahoo Messenger so I was hopping that the final version will include Romanian language…I see that Yahoo doesn’t care about others countries who have many users of yahoo since we doesn’t have even http://yahoo.ro .
Comment by Ionutz — November 13, 2009 #
I love the updates tab! Thank you!
Comment by Mike — November 13, 2009 #
I like it because i can now make video calls. Thanks
Comment by Abiola — November 13, 2009 #
I selected custom install and unchecked all the boxes, but it didn’t seem to pay any attention to my requests. Changed my home page, added as a search provider in IE8, and put an icon on my desktop. Thankfully it didn’t install toolbar crap, but its still pretty jarring and annoying.
Comment by Jason Baginski — November 13, 2009 #
Well, the install of YM 10.0…1102us went fine for me BUT see my earlier post. The FULL version that I dl’ed from FileHippo.com DID NOT have any boxes to uncheck about the toolbar, etc., so I was worried at first but the install went fine and my homepage is still the same and nothing else added, at least not as far as I can see and none of my security programs alerted to anything else being changed except for adding YM. For others reading this, read my earlier comment and clean up your computer after uninstalling the older version (preferably using Revo Uninstaller) and then clean your registry and then download the FULL version from FileHippo and you should get a nice clean install. Don’t forget to go through all the Preferences Menu and get things back to how you like since YM will also go back to their default settings on a new install.
Comment by Lenny Vasbinder — November 13, 2009 #
It’s not good. I hate it. No integration with Vista and 7.
Comment by A — November 13, 2009 #
I’ve tried to download version 10 three times now and each time when it starts to install it says it is trying to install version 9.0.0.2166!
Comment by Ronn — November 13, 2009 #
+1 on it changing my home page and default search. I always uncheck all the ‘options’ at install, yet it still changed both home page and default search. But then, after install, it still always wants to run at windows start as well no matter that was unchecked before as well.
Comment by Chris — November 13, 2009 #
I can confirm that the Custom install ignores the settings for Search, Quick Launch Icon, Desktop Icon, and Home Page.
Comment by Marcus McCurdy — November 13, 2009 #
I cannot download the new version beta 10 was fine
system says encountered network error cannot download files even with firewall switched off
is anyone else encountering this
Comment by amandazz100 — November 13, 2009 #
it looks not so good. you said that got a language option but it’s horrible, 3 or 4 different english, different spanish dialects and all… we can’t find our language… that’s really bad and we should use patchs for it. and it’s not accessible though.. i didn’t like it at all
Comment by Messengerpark — November 14, 2009 #
What about the Romanian language ? When will be disponible?
Comment by topo — November 14, 2009 #
- NO Aero support ?!
- NO IM TABS ?!
- 16 languages ? there are 6,700 on this planet
Do you people even read the requests ?!
Are you paid for this, i hope not.. ?
If you ask me, and 90% of Y!M this deserves the version 7.
Comment by Sebastian — November 14, 2009 #
- when i use diacritics it crashes
- doesn’t remember IM window size
let’s make a list here.. maybe the “Send a feedback..” it’s just for fools..
Comment by Sebastian — November 14, 2009 #
Figures.
No Aero, Jumplist, or Pinned Taskbar support. No shocker there, I mean, they STILL use XP on every freakin’ machine in their company I guess, since ALL their screenshots of the latest yahoo are taken from an XP machine, after all.
And it seems it doesn’t even listen to your options during install, either! Forcing it’s toolbars, start pages, etc on you and screwing up your computer’s configuration!
Yahoo has officially abandoned its users, if Pidgin supported webcam over Yahoo protocol, I’d uninstall Yahoo in a heartbeat and never look back. At least Pidgin themes properly with Aero and doesn’t slow my machine nearly as bad or invade my computer’s configuration.
Comment by Lazure — November 14, 2009 #
***WARNING *** to anyone using a test plugin. They are no longer working as of this released version (v10.0.0.1102) of YIM. Prior betas up to this version still work with test plugins. Until this is fixed (or Yahoo starts the plugin dev program back up), I will be reverting to a previous version.
Comment by Gerry — November 14, 2009 #
I upgraded to this version on my laptop that uses Vista and now I can’t even get it to load. When I was installing it I got an error message saying that I didn’t have rights to run the icalc.dll or something like that but it still installs it. When I try to run it I keep getting an error message saying that it “Can’t load the resource DLL”. It doesn’t even show up on the programs list so that I can uninstall it and try to install it again which I tried to do anyway but I still get the same error messages. Until you provide me with a fix I will not be upgrading it on my desktop because it doesn’t work at all!
Comment by Ally — November 14, 2009 #
i keep getting this error when starting the application: the application failed to initialize properly (0xc0150002). click ok to terminate the application. I use winxp sp3…what to do???
Comment by NEo — November 14, 2009 #
I have the same problem as Neo
what should I do?
Comment by Cissy — November 14, 2009 #
okay i figured out how to fix the 0xc0150002 error
Download RegCure
http://www.jonathan2.tk
Scan your pc then reinstall YM
Comment by Cissy — November 15, 2009 #
After updating to the new version from BETA. when you lose the internet connection or disconnecting form the internet, yahoo messenger just crash instead of just try to connect again as previous versions
Comment by Ashraf — November 15, 2009 #
i cannot install it, i tried to because i was just curious if you solved the problem with the unavailability to select which one of the different profiles to be active (in 8th version is possible to select between alias)
BUT:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: YahooMessenger.exe
Application Version: 10.0.0.1102
Application Timestamp: 4af9f8ef
Fault Module Name: ntdll.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.0.6002.18005
Fault Module Timestamp: 49e03824
Exception Code: c0150002
Exception Offset: 0006f04e
OS Version: 6.0.6002.2.2.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 9d13
Additional Information 2: 1abee00edb3fc1158f9ad6f44f0f6be8
Additional Information 3: 9d13
Additional Information 4: 1abee00edb3fc1158f9ad6f44f0f6be8
Comment by Monique — November 15, 2009 #
Noticed some nice new features!
It’s good, but I would like to ask if Y!Messenger is going to be more integrated with Windows Live Messenger in the future in order to show the avatars of people using Windows Live, for example.
Comment by okotzam — November 15, 2009 #
regcure doesn’t fix the problem
Comment by NEo — November 15, 2009 #
just 16 languages ? where’s romanian language ?
Comment by R3BoRN — November 15, 2009 #
): it wont install for me! please help! i always get
‘Install Unsuccessful’
‘Yahoo Mesenger did not correctly install. This may have been due to other open applications or incomplete installs. Please try to install again after restarting your computer.’
heres my question on yahoo answers! id rly like the help!
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091115095728AAs3Yta&r=w
Comment by Asia — November 15, 2009 #
Y!M v10 = Y!M v9 + rubbish
Y!M v9 = Y!M v8 + rubbish
>> Y!M v10 = Y!M v8 + tons of rubbish !!!
…keep using v8.1.0.421 on my new Windows 7 lappy because of the new crappy themes still not supports Aero.
Waiting for a day that v8 is set to retire, I’ll remove it and install Pidgin or Trillian,…
Comment by AnOldMan — November 15, 2009 #
Why the new messenger is not included all the language from the world ?
Comment by Andrew — November 15, 2009 #
This is unacceptable! 99% of the Romanian population uses Yahoo! Messenger and there is no romanian language?!?!!
This must be a really bad joke, and it’s not even April fools.
Comment by Gaby — November 15, 2009 #
I foolishly downloaded the new version because this post had ‘Works with Windows 7′ as a feature. 50% of the time when I try to start it on Win7 it freezes on startup – I can’t even kill it from the Task Manager or by logging out so I instead have to completely reboot my computer!! NO other program crashes this badly on my Windows 7 laptop.
Compatible with Windows 7? I think not!! Even when it does run, there’s no Aero support. While every other program sports the ‘new’ (OK, 4 years old) Aero look and feel, Yahoo! Messenger still has its own horrible skins. They might have been cutting-edge for Windows 95, but on Windows 7 they look utterly horrible.
Jumplist support? Windows Live Messenger allows me to do all kinds of things from the taskbar. Yahoo! Messenger has ZERO jumplist support and doesn’t follow Windows 7’s design guidelines at all.
The new video calling is nice enough, the rest of the features are pretty useless. Yahoo! should forget about trying to imitate Facebook/Twitter and concentrate on making a decent client that is reliable, looks good, and integrates into Windows properly.
Comment by Natalie — November 15, 2009 #
AnOldMan > does 8 at least leave the aero window borders alone? I’m afraid I don’t have an installer for 8 laying around, and I last used it way back in XP days, so I don’t how it fares with windows 7.
Comment by Lazure — November 15, 2009 #
PLEASE FIX YAHOO MESSENGER 10…. WHEN YOU INSTALL AND UNCHECK MAKE YAHOO YOUR HOMEPAGE, IT STILL MAKES IT YOUR HOMEPAGE… FIX THIS ISSUE!
Comment by Mike — November 15, 2009 #
new messenger 10 takes up more memory
Comment by zip — November 15, 2009 #
NO integration for Windows 7? For Vista also…even though Vista is launched for some years…it’s a real shame for Yahoo people. Hey, wake up!!! Windows XP it’s dead guys!!! Make a version that millions of users expect from you, something glossy for Vista and 7. Sometime in the past there was a Yahoo Messenger version for Vista which looks great even if had limited features. Why did you abandoned that project?
THE NEW VERSION IS UGLY AS THE OTHERS AND LOOKS LIKE WE’RE 10 YEARS AGO. WAKE UP YAHOO PEOPLE!!!
Comment by dragos — November 16, 2009 #
IT DOESN’T WORK ON WINDOWS 7!!!
I thought they made it better this time but I was wrong.
I receive error messages every time when a contact sends me an IM.
Comment by cindy — November 16, 2009 #
WTF?
. WHEN YOU INSTALL AND UNCHECK MAKE YAHOO YOUR HOMEPAGE, IT STILL MAKES IT YOUR HOMEPAGE… FIX THIS ISSUE!
Comment by mircea — November 16, 2009 #
JUST PLEASE, SELL YOUR USER DATABASE TO MICROSOFT, SO WE CAN USE LIVE MESSENGER AT FULL CAPABILITES!
THANK YOU ON THE BEHALF OF 99.(9)% YAHOO MESSENGER USERS.
Comment by Maicăl — November 16, 2009 #
All these comments and i don’t see any reply from the yahoo side!!
Are you intentionally building up this frustration among yahoo users by not listening or u guys just waiting to surprise the same crowd with a better version of YM with integration to windows vista and 7 hoping for a splash? I hope its the latter one.
Comment by Lerauxe — November 16, 2009 #
Doesn’t allow users to report a bug. + Video calling is not possible if only 1 person has webcam.
= Regretting having upgraded to new version + Don’t know how to go back to earlier version
Comment by Pran — November 16, 2009 #
Yahoo IM 10 looks great and worked great on my XP machine. All the video worked wonderfully. On my new Windows 7 though it doesn’t. There are several major problems. With Broadcast on, the frame rate goes from near real time to about .5 frames/sec. It can’t even find the webcam when opening video in a chat window. Help please! I have loved version 10. It just doesn’t work with video on a very expensive Windows 7!
Thank you,
Hank
Comment by Hank — November 16, 2009 #
I don’t like it… add areo and redesign it for windows 7
Comment by A — November 16, 2009 #
Seriously… I can’t be the only one who is upset that Yahoo STILL doesn’t support Tabbed IM Windows for Windows users?! This is ridiculous! The Mac and Web versions have it and EVERY other IM Client has Tabs! I am SO sick of my desktop being cluttered with Yahoo windows! What is the point of this blog if you ignore all of the Feedback you get?!?!
Comment by theJRT — November 16, 2009 #
I agree with the majority here this should not be final.. it says windows 7 support but there is nothing ground breaking about this for windows 7 users.. no jump lists and yeah it needs aero and need to be redesigned to be considered a jump from version 9 to 10. what did they do? just add a bunch of different icons and a new way of video conferencing.. i also noticed that some of the new icons are not present in certain areas so u have a mix of the new and old ones.. this makes it look like a not finished product.
Comment by Matt — November 16, 2009 #
This is unacceptable ! 80% of the Bangladeshi population uses Yahoo! Messenger and there is no Bangladeshi language/Audible etc. etc. !
Comment by Sharif — November 16, 2009 #
You are well beyond reality!!! Still without aero integration after years of Vista and now 7??? I switched on windows live messenger man…
Comment by nick — November 16, 2009 #
Hi,
Well, Sarah Bacon (Product Manager) says that it supports Windows 7. Then why dont they mention it on their website main page. It shows the system requirements as Windows XP, Vista. I beleive that Yahoo would have had its hands on win7 many many months before, like RTM version or something of that sort. I still have the Y!9 on my win7 running pretty ok… and after reading all these comments i dont dare to spoil my brand new Win7 laptop by installing this crap.
Yahoo! went too commercial and have already crossed the line since long back when they first started to show ads, plug-ins and insider on the main window. Sure, we can hide plugins and insider, but wht abt Ads?? I like a chat client to be simple and light weight just like Gtalk. I only use yahoo because of my friends who still use yahoo.
I mean common guys… its V10! you should have done more…. It should have actually been like an automobile manufacturer launching a new generation of its famous model… not just adding a tail light modification.
May be you are making good revenues with your messenger versions, but you are just lagging way behind in terms of user satisfaction!
My next yahoo messenger upgrade will only be when it launches a fully tested and compatible with Win7 version. I would be even more happier if it launches a 64 bit version…. common guys… wake up….!! we are entering 2010… Its not a crime to ask more people friendly technology!!!
“If you are not here to win… then you are just a TOURIST!!!”
Comment by Menas Ahmed — November 17, 2009 #
This version of Yahoo Messenger it’s version 8 with 10 instead of 8. It brings not so much new things. I hope you will be working to version 11 since version 10 is a crap…and in the future you should retire all versions 8,9,10 and leave only the 11 version which will be a completely new designed version who will satisfy all yahoo users with new design and more languages. Thx for listening my complains.
Comment by a person from Romania... — November 17, 2009 #
Ok people from Yahoo, what do you want? I mean, look at all those comments. 67 , with mine 68. Why aren’t you listening, huh? Is it that hard to make some changes so that the users would apreciate your client more?
It can’t be that hard to introduce Aero look. Or Tabbed windows. If you’ll continue with this attitude, you’ll get nothing. You don’t have the only IM Client on the market. I upgraded from v9 to v10 hoping I would find even a fraction of what I wanted. I’ve sent you feedback , but what if?
I’m just a worthless IM user, and you have all the good ideas and everything you say is good, isn’t it?
C’mon! Is it that hard to give a reply?
We don’t need the Y!Updates tab. We don’t want ads. We don’t want these skins. If you wanna do something right, that do this :
Add an Aero look
Add Tabbed windows ( like in the Y!M for Vista)
Remove Ads
Remove the Y!Updates Tab
and for users from Romania, add the romanian language pack.
Please, listen to what we have to say!!!
Comment by A citizen of Romania — November 17, 2009 #
If file transfers and photo sharing isn’t fixed then I don’t think I care very much.
The file transfer and photo sharing issues have been a persistant issue for a long long time now, we’re talking a couple of years at least.. and it’s never been fixed.
I can transfer fine in AIM, MSN, Google Chat and some third party clients like pidgin do well too, but yahoo fails .. if I retry the file 2-3 .. sometimes 8-10 times.. then it goes.
I saw no comment about fixing that so i’ll assume it’s not since I’ve not had a chance to upgrade yet.
Comment by Lonnie — November 17, 2009 #
dear Sarah
I have problem with my yahoo messeger about adding my freinds on the list . I use vista .I appreciate your reply .
mitra
Comment by mitra — November 18, 2009 #
Dear Staff;
Early this morning while using the current Yahoo! Messenger 10…
I had attempted to initiate my web cam it crashed every time within an IM window…
While the web cam is active it’s to large that it blows it off my monitor…
I can’t even type a message & I can barely see the audibles…
@ the present moment I’m still using WIN XP Pro SP3.
What shall I do to recuperate from or correct this situation of mine?
Thank you!
Comment by NuYoRican deCorazon — November 18, 2009 #
Yahoo messenger 10 final crashes on windows 7 32bit when ever I open a chat window.. FAIL reverting back to 9.0
Comment by Calcipher — November 18, 2009 #
You should listen to your users, yahoo messenger team, not ignore them. Nothing has changed since beta. I find version 8 much more apealing than than version 9/10. The 10th version of ym should have been something “big”, not a 9.x version. If version 8 will get retired, i too will retire using ym. Good job team!
Comment by Alex — November 18, 2009 #
Not very impressed with the new version. Seems like Yahoo Messenger doesn’t have a strong vision behind it, and is more and more turning into bloatware. Look at the current leaders in software – Google, Apple, Microsoft – all concentrating on making things smaller and faster and more user-friendly. A few of my complaints:
Photo Sharing – this does not work smoothly, and is often very buggy and stalls, requiring a lot of restarts. Also, users on Macs aren’t able to use this feature, which is one of the few things that makes YM stand out from the competition.
Controlling who sees you as invisible/visible also seems kind of buggy, with people who I’m supposed to be invisible to seeing me as online and saying ‘Hi!’, while others who I want to be visible to ask me why I’m invisible when I message them.
There was also something in the version 10 hype about ‘watching videos together’ but I don’t see the feature anywhere, and I do think it would be neat to actually be watching the same video at the same time, (for example, so the other person sees when the other rewinds, or pauses).
Comment by fd — November 18, 2009 #
@fd – The feature where you can watch videos together is in version 9 and 10. When you share a video link from a video service like YouTube or Yahoo! Video in your IM conversation, the video appears inline in the conversation window. If the video type is supported by the Zync plug-in (e.g. YouTube and Yahoo! Video), a yellow “Watch With Me” button appears in the video window. Click that and the Zync plug-in launches. Not every video type is supported by the Zync plug-in – only Yahoo! Video, Flickr and YouTube. So if you’re sharing a video from another service, the Watch With Me button will not appear. More info here:
http://www.ymessengerblog.com/blog/2009/02/27/zync-plug-in-watch-videos-with-a-friend/
Sarah Bacon
Comment by Administrator — November 18, 2009 #
Ok, thanks Sarah, I will have to try that next time the opportunity comes up. I would like to see it support more video (especially uploaded from an individual’s computer), but that’s interesting.
Thanks for your reply.
Comment by fd — November 18, 2009 #
First, I find it extremely disturbing that your setup changed my browser default page and search engine after I explicitly unchecked those options.
Second, 50Mb Working Set? Really? Outlook 2010 takes less than that. Word 2010 takes up 20Mb of memory and probably has magnitudes of features more than your application. Please add a Lite SKU, no plugins, no audibles, no “Y! Updates”, no “skins”, no chat… just a thin, fast IM client.
Third, native theme support (Aero on W7, XP Theme, etc). I’m sure “custom skinning engines” were all the hype back in 2000, but Windows’ theming technology is mature enough now to satisfy most users’ requirements.
Comment by TekmanRO — November 18, 2009 #
Why is the yahoo messenger always configuring my network connections before allowing me to sign in. And sometimes it does not sign me in. Please, I want a lasting solution to this problem. I am using the all new yahoo messenger 10. the newest version. Thank You.
Comment by Armstrong — November 19, 2009 #
I will stick to y9 until i am forced to upgrade. nothing special on y10. just a bunch of useless stuff. like i care where Joe blow went out to dinner too. got anything else to offer? and the new cam interface is just another thing the perverts and idiots in the chat rooms can use to harass the women. definitely not an upgrade. just a new look. with a lot more bugs for the Booter programs to take advantage of.
Comment by Johnny12467 — November 19, 2009 #
please i need a help on my yahoo messenger 10.I have done very thing but the problem is that i can’t sign on,it keep on showing me troubleshoots and i dont know how to work on that please if you very well on windows vista basic.
Comment by dazzy — November 19, 2009 #
@dazzy – Please contact customer care for assistance: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/messenger/messenger10/forms_index.html
Sarah Bacon
Comment by Administrator — November 19, 2009 #
Anyone know how to import a previous archive into the archive for 10?
Comment by vince — November 19, 2009 #
Hey Sarah! How come your yahoo messenger doesnt have an ad????
Comment by moi — November 19, 2009 #
@moi – My Yahoo! Messenger does have an ad. I used Photoshop to remove it for the screenshot so it wasn’t so large.
Sarah Bacon
Comment by Administrator — November 20, 2009 #
Please introduce updates on Yahoo! Messenger as well.
Photosharing please…
Comment by Chet — November 20, 2009 #
Please stop making new versions with bloat features that nobody wants. The only reason you made a new (major) version of messenger was to include a new video chat system.
The users have been asking for such a long time to get tabbed conversation windows. Why don’t you implement that?
We want innovations that make Messenger easier to use, not things that would make it run slower.
So please… WE WANT TABS!
Comment by Ove — November 21, 2009 #
I see we still have no tabs in this version
Oh well… skipping another version…
Comment by Tabs! — November 21, 2009 #
Why did you disable ALT+SPACE to access the window menu? I used it all the time to do ALT+SPACE+N to minimize windows.
Why would you bother writing code that removes that feature instead of working on tabs?!
Comment by Ove — November 21, 2009 #
Firstly, sorry for this post being off topic
Ms. Sarah Bacon – may I ask why Yahoo! has abandoned the Messenger-All-Stars Group? I say abandoned because there is no activity since Dec. 2008 and also, no new topics are allowed.
It is really sad that you abandoned the Group and everything that included the Y!M All-Stars program. Every single detail regarding to the Y!M Power User program was there to find but now, everything’s “dead”/expired. Sorry if I keep asking but can you please tell me what (if any) the future plans are for the program? I want to know if there still is hope for it to be active and please don’t tell me you have no news because I know you do. If Yahoo doesn’t know, then who does? And I am sure I’m not the only one who wants to know what is going on.
I can already tell that I won’t get any reply from you, in fact I’m 99% sure I won’t get any response but as a old Yahoo! messenger user who uses Yahoo Messenger and lots of your services on a daily basis, I keep hoping to get a clear answer regarding to my simple question. Thank you.
Comment by robert szombati — November 21, 2009 #
i sue windows 7 enterprise 64bit
download the Y!Messenger 10 last version from yahoo website
when have new mail i double click the new mail icon on the taskbar but i get this error message:
There was a problem sending sending the command to the program.
and nothing happend ( no page on web browse open )
need help please!
Comment by solid-snake — November 21, 2009 #
Hi,
Well, Sarah Bacon (Product Manager) says that it supports Windows 7. Then why dont they mention it on their website main page. It shows the system requirements as Windows XP, Vista. I beleive that Yahoo would have had its hands on win7 many many months before, like RTM version or something of that sort. I still have the Y!9 on my win7 running pretty ok… and after reading all these comments i dont dare to spoil my brand new Win7 laptop by installing this crap.
Yahoo! went too commercial and have already crossed the line since long back when they first started to show ads, plug-ins and insider on the main window. Sure, we can hide plugins and insider, but wht abt Ads?? I like a chat client to be simple and light weight just like Gtalk. I only use yahoo because of my friends who still use yahoo.
I mean common guys… its V10! you should have done more…. It should have actually been like an automobile manufacturer launching a new generation of its famous model… not just adding a tail light modification.
May be you are making good revenues with your messenger versions, but you are just lagging way behind in terms of user satisfaction!
My next yahoo messenger upgrade will only be when it launches a fully tested and compatible with Win7 version. I would be even more happier if it launches a 64 bit version…. common guys… wake up….!! we are entering 2010… Its not a crime to ask more people friendly technology!!!
“If you are not here to win… then you are just a TOURIST!!!”
Comment by Menas Ahmed — November 22, 2009 #
i cant install yahoo 10, on my windows 7, it said that it is not compatible.
Comment by kryptonite — November 22, 2009 #
what is happening that i cannot seen what others are sending to me or other to what i am sending to them, my message appear not to be seeing. Can you let me know what will i do using this latest version so that those that are using lower version can chat with me
thank you
Comment by agada sunday — November 23, 2009 #
Installation need admin permission, so installed in admin account. However, when launched in an user account, it failes and always pops out a dialog box saying “cannot load resource dll”.
I don’t want to chat with people using the admin account. How?
Comment by bbqfan — November 23, 2009 #
Two quick questions please:
- does installing the new version preserve my message history?
- can the Y! UPDATES tab be completely closed?
Comment by Ivo — November 24, 2009 #
muy bueno
Comment by lina zapa — November 24, 2009 #
@Ivo – Upgrading to a new version on your machine will not remove your message history. And no, the Y! Updates tab cannot be hidden from the interface.
Sarah Bacon
Comment by Administrator — November 24, 2009 #
How can i see what version of Yahoo Messenger is using a contact from my list? (I am using the latest version 10.0.0.1002.)
Comment by Ionutz — November 25, 2009 #
I really wanted to upgrade, as I have liked the Y! messenger for a long time. and when I did, it no longer displays avatars or contact pictures, cant share files.
I am using Windows Home Premium. What is going on? how can this be fixed? I have tried looking for the version 9 installer, but cannot find it.
Please help!!!
Comment by Gil — November 25, 2009 #
I dont like the new mwssanger 10, I never had trouble with live chat to my friend till we both down loaded the new messanger. Now she gets all this noise and cant hear me, and I get dropped words from her. Hate it!!!!! get off of Yahoo games and have not as much trouble.
Comment by Ruth — November 25, 2009 #
Really unhappy with the new version…
cant see my display picture, cant see video, cant see file sharing!
please help! how do I get back to version 9?
Comment by Gil — November 25, 2009 #
I installed yahoo messenger 10 final! I can chat in chat room but cannot send private messages to the chat room people in a separate window.
Comment by r — November 27, 2009 #
The call log history malfunctioned in v9. I have set it to email call logs to my Yahoo email but it’s broken. I wonder if the call log history feature is fixed in v10.
Comment by Kelly — November 28, 2009 #
please bring windows 7 aero support and windows 7 intergration. if this ever happens than i will be happy otherwise this product sucks
Comment by Matt — November 29, 2009 #
use Digsby,
- AERO support
- TABBED IM’s
- LOW MEMORY CONSUMPTION
- and a lot of features
thank you Yahoo for helping me find Digsby!
Comment by ToMatt — November 29, 2009 #
Ditto on comments about test plug-ins no longer working. The latest Yahoo alert sounds have been inaudible for a long time, and I can no longer load a plugin to fix that. I copied the old sounds over the new ones, but that doesn’t seem to work either. Did Yahoo listen to the many complaints about this issue in prior versions? I also agree with comments on webcams. Mine still freezes frequently in YM but not in other apps, and it caused the person viewing it to crash at least once.
Comment by Steve — November 29, 2009 #
Please PLEASE make it possible for users to delete their custom status messages!! It would surely be a great hit as a feature. It’s SO annoying to not be able to delete them.
Comment by Diana — December 1, 2009 #
I have downloaded version 10 twice but no luck as pc-to-pc calls option is not available at all. I can send screenshots if you want to take a look.
Comment by Raj — December 2, 2009 #
@Raj – Did you download the US version of the India version? The India version does not support voice so be sure you’re using the US version, available at http://messenger.yahoo.com/win
Sarah Bacon
Comment by Administrator — December 2, 2009 #
How do I keep my cam from not auto-zooming in 50%? this is only happening in YM 10.
It is extremely irritating, and I have been asking for weeks for a fix. please address this?
Thank you
Comment by Bill — December 2, 2009 #
@Bill – The zooming issue tends to occur when your web camera has facial tracking turned on. Try turning it off and it should correct the issue. Thanks,
Sarah Bacon
Comment by Administrator — December 2, 2009 #
Can I get a link to a standalone installation file? for the latest version?
Comment by Yesar Al Maleki — December 3, 2009 #
Hi.
I can not locate where the message archive now…
There is nothing in C:\Users\Mark\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\Profiles folder. But i can view my archives in yahoo messenger…. the problem is I don’t know where i can import message archives I had since before I upgraded to version 10. And, I don’t know how I can backup my archives on this version.
Comment by Mark — December 3, 2009 #
how come the video call doesnt work? can u fixed it pls.
Comment by jayems — December 3, 2009 #
Hi Mark – I’m on Windows XP and my archives for 10 are under the following path:
C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\Profiles\USERNAME\Archive
Hope that helps,
Sarah Bacon
Comment by Administrator — December 3, 2009 #
Standards slipping even further… you guys are so far behind MSN and Pidgin right now. I can’t even change my status to show what music I’m playing in Spotify and iTunes, as late as December 2009? Extremely poor.
Comment by Stephanie — December 3, 2009 #
Sarah,
My cam has no facial tracking feature. The problem of the 50% zoom in started occuring with the latest beta only.
I appreciate your reply.
Bill
Comment by Bill — December 4, 2009 #
@Stephanie – This may help you:
http://www.ymessengerblog.com/blog/2009/10/28/new-foxytunes-plug-in-control-and-share-your-music/
Sarah Bacon
Comment by Administrator — December 4, 2009 #
Sarah,
I searched though every setting I have, but have found no facial tracking feature. I am on an HP G60 Laptop running Vista.
One thing I did notice however. My cam appears normal until the person with whom I am calling picks up. Then my video flashes a second of white, the cam restarts, and it is zoomed in 50%. If they do NOT use video in a video call with me, but I DO, then my video looks completely normal.
Comment by Bill — December 4, 2009 #
@Bill – Thanks, this is helpful. It’s something we continue to look into it. Appreciate it,
Sarah Bacon
Comment by Administrator — December 4, 2009 #
Hi Sarah.
Thanks for the reply. I’ve checked that path (C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\) but there is no Profiles folder there. Oh btw, I am using Vista.
It’s really weird because from previous YM versions using Vista I am accessing my archives on C:\Users\Mark\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\Profiles folder.
Now I don’t know where are those archive files are being saved. I also copied my older archive messages on C:\Users\Mark\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\Profiles folder but I can not see them displayed on the yahoo messenger when I access them thru Contacts\Message Archive (i can only see the archive messages i had when i installed version 10.)
Thank you for attending my concern.
Regards,
Mark
Comment by Mark — December 5, 2009 #
Yahoo messenger 10 willn’t completely finish installing on windows 7 64 bit. Do you know anyway I could fix this?
Comment by jason — December 6, 2009 #
i have downloaded yahoo messenger 10. But the problem is that when i enter into any chat room, there in main window i can send msg and other can see that. But if i send msg to any user in that chat room in a private message window, msg is not being sent to them. user send me msg i can see those msg but in Private message window, my msg r not reaching to those users….
if any one is there in my friend list i can send msg to those users.. only problem is if send msg to those who r not added in my frnd list and who r in chat room…
plz give any solution to this problem… i m not being able to chat on yahoo messenger..
Comment by r — December 6, 2009 #
I have attempted to upgrade my YIM 9 to YIM 10 without sucess. I keep getting version 9.0.0.2166. I have Windows Vista, am I not able to download YIM 10 yet? I have uninstalled 9.0.0.2166, and gone to the YIM 10 install website, have done the Run then Run numerous times, and I still get the 9.0.0.2166 version installed! Frustrating to say the least.
Comment by Graeme — December 6, 2009 #
@graeme – The issue is that you have an AT&T Yahoo! ID, and version 10 is not yet available for AT&T Yahoo! users. But here’s how to get around it. Go to yahoo.com and make sure you are SIGNED OUT of Yahoo!. Then go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/download/win and download it again. You’ll get access to 10. Basically you need to not identify yourself as an AT&T user when you go to the download page. Thanks,
Sarah Bacon
Comment by Administrator — December 7, 2009 #
Hi Mark – On my Vista machine, this is where the Messenger 10 archives are:
c:\Program files (x86)\Yahoo!\Messenger\Profiles
Hope that helps,
Sarah Bacon
Comment by Administrator — December 7, 2009 #
I’ve been a long time Yahoo! Messenger user, since at least 2002, and have enjoyed seeing the new updates every version, even including the short-lived Yahoo! Messenger for Vista, which I quite liked. While some of the changes were frustrating, such as the custom status dialog disappearing and becoming a small text field, and the ‘profile’ system becoming less useful (including the omitting of the Nickname field, which was useful for chat – I predict a complete omission of chat eventually)…
I have to admit, the new Status/Update menu is beautiful because I can see all the status changes from friends, and since many of my friends use statuses for when they’re out of the house or asleep, I can see what time they set it and everything. These features are really helpful, and I’m looking forward to seeing what 11 could implement if it’s integrated into Windows 7 like AIM and MSN already are. And the new video call feature is nice because it’s finally integrated into the IM window, but the standard webcam is still external and can support many viewers. Before long I can see Yahoo! having a multi-viewer audio+video stream similar to Stickam, only much better and more secure, possibly close to uStream.
However, I do have one complaint. It’s partially just my computer, I’m sure, but when I’m using Windows XP — I have 7[RTM] and XP dualboot, but 7 doesn’t entirely support everything I use, and I’m still used to XP — Yahoo locks up, or freezes, every 5 minutes. Not exactly 5 minutes, but, might as well be. I’ve completely uninstalled it, deleted registry values, removed all traces of Yahoo Messenger from my computer, then reinstalled it again and it still continues to freeze every 5 minutes. Does it with any account I sign in on, and any version of Yahoo — I still have the installers for 7, 8, 8.5, and various versions of 9, and the latest for 10. All of them freeze constantly, and I’ve become unable to use Yahoo anymore. I really would like a fix for this, at least a reply via e-mail as to what I could do to fix it, because Yahoo has always been my IM client of choice, and it’s my main method of talking to 90% of my friends.
Comment by Braden — December 7, 2009 #
Hi Sarah.
Thanks for the reply.
Again, i can not see the archives folder in c:\Program files (x86)\Yahoo!\Messenger\Profiles
i just find it weird that i can see archives via yahoo messenger but I can not find where those files are located. is there no solution for this? if i reinstall ym i’m afraid i will lost all those messages.
It’s only on this version i encounter this problem on message archives, and i am using yahoo messenger for many many years already.
- Mark
Comment by Mark — December 10, 2009 #
Mark and Sarah,
I also find I am having the same issue. I have used Messenger for years and have archives I refer to constantly. I have always used the following location for backing up these archives as well as transferring from one machine to another C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\Profiles. I upgraded my OS to Windows 7 Pro 64 bit at the end of October and promptly installed Messenger 9.0.0.2162 and now find my archives in C:\Program Files (x86)\Yahoo!\Messenger\Profiles\\.
No problem so far.
I just ordered a new computer (with Windows 7 Pro 64 bit), installed Yahoo Messenger 10 on it and signed in with my Yahoo ID. I made sure that the application was set to archive, had some test conversations with friends. went and looked in C:\Program Files (x86)\Yahoo!\Messenger and there is no “Profiles” folder there. I also looked in C:\Users\\AppData in all three folders (Local, LocalLow, and Roaming) and there is no indication of a profiles folder in those locations.
So I copied over some (a handful of friends) of my profiles folder from my old machine onto the new machine. When I am signed in I can see my archives for those few friends I copied over just fine, which again, is great.
I can also see the test conversations I have had since installing the new version. However, those test conversations are NOT stored in the directory C:\Program Files (x86)\Yahoo!\Messenger\Profiles\\Archive\Messages. I determined this as the users with whom I had test conversation did not have a folder created.
So, Sarah I think what we need to know is the default location for where Archives are stored in the new version and in what format those are stored so that we can continue to archive the new messages and be able to transfer ALL of our archives (pretty sure we’ve got the old methodology figured out) if anyone were to switch machines in the future and wanted to take their entire archive with them.
I hope this information has been helpful and hope to receive the information for the default location of archives soon! If there are any questions or comments please let me know!
Jon
Comment by Jon — December 14, 2009 #
@Jon and Mark – Check in this directory for your archive files (replace “Program Files” with “Program Files (x86)” if it’s a 64-bit OS):
C:\Users\\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\Profiles
Note that by default, this folder may be hidden. See the screenshot below for advice on how to unhide it:
http://ymessengerblog.com/images/folder_options.jpg
Hope that helps,
Sarah Bacon
Comment by Administrator — December 14, 2009 #
If you get the error message: Failed to intialize properly (0xc0150002)….go to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555175 and follow the directions to fix your windows installer. It actually does work!!!!! After you do all that……download the messenger again and it should work
Comment by Monica — December 14, 2009 #
I have Vista. I do not know exactly what happened, but somehow my messenger stopped working. I was able to sign in but couldn’t go into a chat room. So I uninstalled yahoo messenger and installed version 10. Then I started getting the error of the application failed to initialize properly (0xc0150002). For about a week now, I have been researching it and trying to figure out what to do to get mine to work. I have uninstalled and reinstalled different versions of yahoo (8,9 & 10). Yahoo Messenger 8 and 9 can be found online on other websites. I had tried completely uninstalling yahoo, removing the yahoo folder from Program Files, and going into the registry and deleting all Yahoo related items and then reinstalling yahoo. It seemed with version 8, I could log in and go into a chat room but I could not receive ims from anyone. I would get some error about not having enough memory. With version 9, I could sign in but when I tried to go into a chat room, I would get an error saying there was not enough memory. With version 10, I could not sign in at all.
I found this link http://www.kpsolution.com/blog/tag/yahoo/ online and I followed steps 1 through 6 and then installed the latest java update (after step 12), rebooted my computer, then installed version 9 of yahoo to see if it works. It does.
My next step is to install version 10 and see if I have any problems. I will post my results.
Comment by Laura — December 14, 2009 #
Sarah,
You are a gem! This is exactly what I was looking for and I am guessing Mark as well. Your attentiveness to your work speaks volumes about your character.
Thanks for making my Yahoo! experience even better!
Jon
Comment by Jon — December 15, 2009 #
You’re very welcome, Jon. Glad I could help!
Sarah Bacon
Comment by Administrator — December 15, 2009 #
Hi Sarah and Jon.
I’m happy Jon you got yours working.
Now here’s my case…
I am on Vista (32-bit).
Like i mentioned earlier, i installed yahoomessenger 10. And like what i did on previous version of yahoomessenger, i copied all the message folders to “C:\Users\Mark\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\Profiles\yusername”
So i was able to see all the old messages via yahoomessenger.
After a couple of days, when i check the archive (via yahoomessenger) i can only see the “new” messages. But when i check the “C:\Users\Mark\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\Profiles\yusername” folder the old messages are still there… the “new” messages however are not. I don’t know where it is being saved.
So i thought, my yahoomessenger 10 was corrupted. I went to format my laptop. installed ym 10 again but with same result. “new” messages aren’t still on the message folders. (But i can see it on the archive via yahoomessenger 10).
I uninstalled version 10 and reinstalled version 9 of yahoomessenger. Same scenario so I thought maybe it still caches version 10.
So I went to format my laptop again and this time installed yahoomessenger 9. I can now see my old messages when i place it in “C:\Users\Mark\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\Profiles\yusername” folder. including the “new” messages.
Happy ending? Not again.
Just after a couple a days, yahoomesseger will only display archives of “new” messages. And the folders of these “new” messages are not again located in “C:\Users\Mark\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\Profiles\yusername” folder.
Does it have something to do with windows updates like i regularly do?
Archives are really important to me that’s why im so bothered by this problem.
- Mark
Comment by Mark — December 15, 2009 #
I cannot log in after updating to yahoo messenger 10
Comment by Curtis — December 15, 2009 #
the addition of the captcha window to the messenger was welcome, so we don’t have to go to the separate browser window to type it in. But even with all these changes and the captcha, how come booting is still allowed? There are booter still being made somehow and people still doing it. It seems to be better perhaps than a few years ago maybe, but it’s still happening.
Also with the captcha, there are those spam and porn bots crawling around again? How can that be? can they defeat the captcha?
Comment by captcha_still_boot — December 15, 2009 #
@Mark – Have you confirmed your archive settings are set to “save all my messages”? Go under Messenger > Preferences > Archive.
Sarah Bacon
Comment by Administrator — December 16, 2009 #
Hi Sarah.
Yes, I’m very sure with that.
- Mark
Comment by Mark — December 16, 2009 #
Hey I just found it now!
The “new” archives are located in this folder:
“C:\ProgramData\Yahoo!\Messenger\Profiles\”
I don’t know how it ended there. I don’t recall any configuration I did on my messenger.
I moved my “old” messages on this folder and now I can see all the messages on yahoomessenger archive together. Finally! Just like old times.
If your technical team would investigate how this happened, you may want to tell them that they can start on checking out the effects of recent windows update to yahoomessenger application.
By the way, I do still have one little problem though, when you are on the message window on yahoomessenger, and you want to choose an Emoticon, the icons would not display on the options. So I have to mouse-over to the “invisible” icons and see the tooltip (’smile’, ‘confused’, ’surprise’, etc). Am I making sense?
- Mark
Comment by Mark — December 16, 2009 #
I, like many others, have the same problem as Laura. While installing a “0xc0150002″ error shows up, but the installer runs “successful” to the end. Everytime I try to start Y!-Messenger the same “0xc0150002″ error occurs. I had no Problems with v9 before. My computer is an up to date patched XP Pro with IE8, newest Flash, Shockwave and JRE.
If you search the web, you find a lot of people searching help to this error, but no solution.
-Steffen
Comment by Steffen — December 18, 2009 #
*sigh.
Gawd, this yahoo messenger version lacks a lot of features and “pizazz”. It even has a lot of problems.
Bring vista preview back.
Boo Yahoo.
Comment by Cole — January 5, 2010 #
How do you activate the sound effects or soundtrack feature when you’re voice calling?
Comment by Tin2 — January 5, 2010 #
@Tin2 – Sorry, sound effects and soundtrack features are no longer available in Yahoo! Messenger 10.
Sarah Bacon
Comment by Administrator — January 5, 2010 #
I want the purple im environment back
Comment by Sam — January 6, 2010 #
after the video call my screen is huge. even when i log out and back in. or even if someone else IMs me…HELP PLEASE
Comment by Anna — January 6, 2010 #
@Sam – Sorry about that, it had expired. But it’s now turned back on! Try it again and it should work (you may need to sign out and sign back in again).
Sarah Bacon
Comment by Administrator — January 7, 2010 #
Sarah, is there anyway you could possibly bring back the sound effects and soundtrack feature of the messenger like what Tin2 was asking for? Its kinda cool.
Comment by Gillie — January 8, 2010 #
@Gillie – I’m sorry but we don’t have plans to bring the sound effects and soundtrack features back to the product.
Sarah Bacon
Comment by Administrator — January 8, 2010 #
Any plans to fix the bot/spam/porn issue that’s been plaguing Yahoo chat for years now?
The CAPTCHA method completely failed and is utterly pointless to even have it still integrated into the rooms. There are much, MUCH better methods available now to finally get rid of this problem once and for all.
Thank you,
JJ
Comment by John Johnson — January 9, 2010 #
why cant I dl the messenger 10 or any messenger version from iran?????????
Comment by naeimeh — January 10, 2010 #
I am using yahoo messenger 10. I cannot listen my call history which i had it before with my friends. If i reinstalled will my old call history stay alive or will it erase.
Please let me know.
Thank you
Comment by Anil Kumar — January 11, 2010 #
I am trying to install YM 10 on my work laptop. YM downloads successfully, however, when it get’s to toolbar, only 15% of it downloads and then I get the following error message: “Install Unsuccessful….Yahoo! Messenger did not correctly install. This may have been due to other open applications or incomplete installs. Please try the install again after restarting your computer.”
I’ve closed all applications, restarted my computer…but haven’t had any luck. I had version 9 installed prior to this, and didn’t have any issues, but this time around I can’t get it downloaded. Could someone please provide me with some assistance?
Thank you!
Comment by Kis — January 18, 2010 #
Dear yahoo team,
Comparing u with google,microsoft technologies, sadly to say tht you have left yahoo behind by producing such defective products,though joined hands with microsoft.
Y-Update tabs not working.crashed messenger while going to do tht.
Please, fix present bugs in all products then launch new one’s.
yahoo mail,messenger,yahoo answers all tht.make all working right and simpler like google products.
Hopefully.
palak bhansali.
S/w developer
Comment by palak bhansai — January 18, 2010 #
To turn off the Yahoo skins and allow Windows 7 Aero themes, go to C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\YahooMessenger.exe right click ‘Compatability’, check ‘Disable Visual Themes’.
I am a paying Yahoo Mail Plus/Phone customer and I consider it downright rude that Yahoo doesn’t explain this option in Messenger Help considering the number of people asking for it. Branding is one thing but come on.
Comment by Jimmy — January 20, 2010 #
the YM10 is still full of bugs on windows 7. it constantly stops working and crashes. i even have friends who on vista xp and it is doing it to them too. yahoo! needs to fix that problem. if i can find ym9 i am going to reinstal it till ym10 is fixed.
Comment by Tim — January 22, 2010 #
I tried to download the yahoo messenger 10 but during the installation it stopped and showed a message saying,” yahoo messenger is unable to download files needed for installation. Please check firewall settings and retry installation.”My firewall is on and everything seems normal. Do you know why this is happening?Please help me. Thank you:)
Comment by Tahera Ali — January 25, 2010 #
@Tahera Ali – Please contact customer care for assistance:
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/messenger/messenger10/help10.html
Sarah Bacon
Comment by Administrator — January 26, 2010 #
A few things I’d like to see within the next update.
Text Format (Give Users The Choice to Choose which Option they would prefer through preferences menu) I prefer 8.1 text format myself.
Links (tabs or seperate windows) through the preferences.
I like messenger ten despite a few things. Which I hope can be fixed within the next update.
Comment by erica — January 29, 2010 #
Hi,
My issue is that after installing YM10 all my Windows sound will turn off. I can hear everything (music, calls, videos, etc) just all the sounds of Windows won’t work, like error sounds, windows start, windows shutdown, etc.
I’m using Windows XP SP3.
Any help or bug fix will be appreciated.
Comment by Mio — February 1, 2010 #
I can’t download messI can’t download messenger 10 then i get:
Internet explorer script error
An error has occured in the script on this page
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yes or no
I click on yes get the same error and no the same error
What can i do i can’t download evrything you sent me this afternoon it stops downloading the Messenger after 3 or 4 seconds
I tried everything that you sent me and i cant after 3 or 4 seconds it stops
I need some help! Please
Comment by Michael — February 1, 2010 #
I cannot for the life of me get “Messenger10″ to work on my Windows 7 Operating System. I ran the compatibility troubleshoot & it says it is NOT Compatible wth? FML!
Comment by krispy_mnmz — February 2, 2010 #
installer from your site is dysfunctional
in other words it fails to install
I have made sure there are no phantom strings of browsers or any other application running to interfere, but keep getting the same error that says the installer file is corrupted or incomplete and to contact the author.I have launched it both from your website and after downloading it.
I even tried the /ncrc suggested command switch, got same error, tried rebooting, got same error message.
and there is no virus on this machine
Comment by jimc — February 2, 2010 #
Can’t install messenger 10…keeps giving me incomplete install message. I have tried everything to fix this, but still nothing….what next?
Comment by hallie — February 10, 2010 #
@hallie – Please contact Yahoo! customer care for assistance:
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/messenger/messenger10/help10.html
Sarah Bacon
Comment by Administrator — February 10, 2010 #
There is a windows border bug in YM 10. When your borders are set thick, the chat window maximizes beyond the screen edges, partially cutting off the first menu item text and cropping the top of the window so the minimize/close buttons are off screen.
This same problem makes the top bar of the window hard to grab when in restored size because the window title bar gives you the resize cursor instead of the move one for as much pixels as u have set for border.
This probably only affects Windows 7 and only affects ppl who have wide borders set so it’s unlikely it’ll be fixed.
Comment by Carl Jenkins — February 12, 2010 #
hey i cant install with with windows7.. Yahoo should have fixed this already!
Comment by mary rose — February 14, 2010 #
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I downloaded and Installed yahoo mesenger 10, to my dismay I could not find the button to allow me to chat like pervious version of Yahoo messenger. How do I get to the good old chatroom ?
Comment by qala — February 19, 2010 #
i cant chat with a contact in my messenger list. his invironment, buzz, audibles, webcam, send files, etc. are hidden to me. and my messages are not reaching to him. what can i do?
Comment by hashim — February 19, 2010 #
@qala – Go into the Messenger menu at the top of your main Yahoo! Messenger window and select “Yahoo Chat” to get started.
Sarah Bacon
Comment by Administrator — February 19, 2010 #
hi
how can i get the new yahoo mesenger with the new emoticons ?
they are realy nice and i want them
Comment by kenan — February 24, 2010 #
@Sarah Bacon: What is the ETA for the AT&T version of Yahoo Messenger 10?
I saw an earlier comment that version 10 was not yet available:
http://www.ymessengerblog.com/blog/2009/11/12/yahoo-messenger-10-final-version-now-available/#comment-195823
Comment by Matt Seitz — February 28, 2010 #
@Matt – Should be another month or so. If you are an AT&T user and you want version 10, you can still download it. Just be sure you’re not logged in to the Yahoo! network when you go to the Yahoo! Messenger website to download it.
Sarah Bacon
Comment by Administrator — March 1, 2010 #
***TABBED IMs, PLEASE!!!***
I can’t stress this enough! Its the only thing that makes using Yahoo Messenger such a pain. I also use Trillian, for all my other messengers. But Trillian doesn’t support Yahoo very well. If Yahoo would just give us tabbed IM, it would be so much better.
And the fact that they had something similar in YM8, but you had to use a registry edit to do so makes it obvious that it is possible. It just seems spiteful that they even took that out in the latest version.
Comment by Brandon — March 4, 2010 #
I just downloaded yahoo messenger 10 and I get an error that it cannot resource dll…I have been trying for a while now uninstalling and installing and still the problem persist…
help me please I really need messenger…
Comment by carmen — March 6, 2010 #
I’ve been using yahoo messenger 10 for a while now and there are times that it won’t work so I have to uninstall it and then install it back and here’s my problem, I’ve been trying to install it again but a message keeps on popping. It says, “Yahoo! Messenger is unable to download files needed for installation. Please check firewall settings and retry installation.” I’ve seen a user with the same problem too, Can someone tell me how to fix this?
Comment by joie — March 11, 2010 #
Installed yahoo messenger 10 but there is no option of pc to pc call. i searched and tried a lot but not able?
Comment by satwant — March 13, 2010 #
YM 10 is faster than YM 9 , but I hope to find ( Arabic ) language in the next YM .
Thank you
Comment by Mostafa — March 25, 2010 #
Yahoo did not do a good job with this release at all. This version does not support voice calls to landline or mobile. Wonder if I can get my money in my yahoo account refunded to me since I can no longer make calls to my friends overseas.
Comment by Wingster — April 24, 2010 #
HELP
Comment by DAVIDMARTINEZ — April 28, 2010 #
I NEED YAHOO MESSENGER
Comment by DAVIDMARTINEZ — April 28, 2010 #
أنا أتمنى أن يحتوى ( الياهوو ماسنجر )الجديد على اللغة العربية
I wish next yahoo version to include ( Arabic ) language
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Comment by waqas iqbal — May 14, 2010 #
Hi,
i down loaded the version 10,every thing fine except video call and voice call keys are inactive,how can i make them working?
Comment by Nakul — May 15, 2010 #
I am using 64-bit Windows Vista, and was wondering where the Profile folders and message archives are kept on the hard drive. I have searched for them, but cannot find them anywhere. Some help would be appreciated.
Comment by I have sneaky kids,,, — July 6, 2010 #
v10 or v9 still won’t install windows 7 home prem 64 bit!! gets about 97% done & freezes. holding shift key didn’t make a diff boohoo. i hate msn live msngr beta, it sux. makes you look at msn news whether you want to or not ugh. trillian astra won’t dl either. whassup with w7????
Comment by gringo — July 8, 2010 #
my friend on vista i belive juts upgraded to 10 the latest version yahoo messanger and cant conect to me on my mac tru webcam anymore what the hell?
it says to friend i am not useing latest vesion or some nonsense? my yahoo messanger is latest version for mac?
what gives? is there a problem here or what damm why would u put out something that is not compaitalbe and alot on mac and pcs wth????? stupid stupid a new version for mac it is beta version i am useing? worked fine now is …….
Comment by steven — July 29, 2010 #