No applause, just money! ;-) LOL. Glad I could help. I hope others read and learn from your adventure. I've written about changing the yupdater.exe so many times over the years but people still like to play guinea pig for new YM versions. I'm happy to stick with my 7.5 which works great 99% of the time.
I am all for Beta testing and I volunteer to Beta test many programs. I currently am Beta testing 6-7 different programs and I mean some BIG ones out there but it's not for everyone. You should know your computer inside and out and be able to fix things that go wrong or you should not Beta test. You should also have a back up process in effect so that if your computer gets trashed, you can restore all your lost information. One of my backup programs is Mozy which I "advertise" about all the time in my sig. It's free and will automatically do an online back up of up to 2 Gigs (for FREE) of info that you choose. It's only $4.95 a month for unlimited back up storage space. There's also a little referral program where you get additional storage when you refer people to Mozy so I'm up to over 3 gigs of free storage now. I back up all of "My Documents" and "My photos" each night. One day, I'm going to upgrade to the unlimited backup. I actually Beta tested Mozy from when it first came out a few years ago. Before that, I was using DVD's to do weekly back ups. I still ghost my entire hard drive on a weekly basis just in case of a major crash but for the unlikely event of accidentally deleting a file or your computer gets stolen or destroyed, Mozy works perfect for restoring your personal files. If your hard drive crashes and you buy a new hard drive for your computer, you would need more than Mozy. I'm not sure if Yahoo Messenger has a legitimate Beta testing process. I know they come out with Beta versions but people aren't fully informed of what Beta testing involves and I'm not sure if Yahoo communicates with their Beta testers in a manner that would work out all of the bugs prior to publicly releasing the version. In fact, I've seen the Beta versions offered publicly and most companies do NOT do things this way. In fact, for most of the programs that I am currently Beta testing, I had to "apply" to become a Beta tester and show that I am capable of properly testing the software and reporting bugs and fixes. I don't think Yahoo has the communication skills necessary to accomplish this type of testing. LOL Lenny Vasbinder 504-621-1870 FREE and automatic online remote backup of your documents, photos and files... https://mozy.com/?ref=SY4ZSI Check out how simple and secure it can be to use the Mozy remote backup system. Mozy will back up your most important files and folders every day/night while you aren't using your computer. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Wise Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 11:47 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Y!M] RE: Yahoo Messenger, Windows Vista and Phone Out - H E L P ! YM PHONE OUT PROBLEM SOLVED!, but no thanks to the folks at Yahoo. Lenny is my hero today. He led me to uninstall the latest version of YM and then reinstall an older version, v8.0.0.508, and, now the "Phone Out" service works perfectly again with my Vista system. I also renamed yupdater.exe to stop further updates as Lenny suggested. Thanks, Lenny! You are the best. Regards, Alan in Las Vegas No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.485 / Virus Database: 269.13.5/990 - Release Date: 9/4/2007 10:36 PM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unsubscribe from Yahoo_Messenger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Switch from Normal to Digest mail mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Switch from Normal to NoMail mail mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Switch from Digest or NoMail to Normal mail mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Write to the Moderators and Owner of the List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Suggestions for improvements to the List should be sent to the "owner" address listed above. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Yahoo_Messenger/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Yahoo_Messenger/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
