Please look at the "Help" menu, then About and see which version. There are a couple of what could be called "current versions" of YM. If you have the 9.0 version, then technically, you are still Beta testing it since it just came out of Beta and YM, even first out of Beta, is still in Beta until they do a couple of updates. I personally would never use a X.0 version of YM.. they still have way too many glitches. Wait until X.1 or at least X.0.9 or something
Windows Media Player has nothing to do with Yahoo Messenger unless you might have some abstract plug-in... speaking of which, do you have any plug-ins? I find that plug-ins will only exacerbate many of the glitches in YM so the first thing you should do if you are having YM problems is to close and remove ALL plug-ins. Of course, I don't use YM 9.0 so I could be wrong about WMP being tied to YM now... but that would just be another reason NOT to use YM 9.0. I don't mind WMP and use it as my primary media player but it seems tying WMP to YM would only make YM a big resource hog. I'm wondering if your Java is up to date and working properly? You might want to check your Add/Remove programs and see if you have Java 6, update 11, which I'm pretty sure is the most recent update. Then make sure you haven't blocked Java with your firewall anti-spyware software. If you don't have the most updated version of Java, while in Control Panel, open the Java applet and on the Update tab, there's a button to "update now". Once you've installed the most current version, go back to Add/Remove programs and remove all previous versions of Java. Since you say you cannot see the IM text at all, have you checked to see if you have the font color as white (which I mentioned in my first reply) which would then make it the same color as the background so you wouldn't see it. You can also see characters that might be hidden in the background by doing a simulated copy/paste and highlight the text area to see if hidden characters show up during the highlight in blue/white. Many SPIM's (spam IM's) will have links and other junk hidden in white font colors so you don't realize they are there. Lenny Vasbinder http://lennyvasbinder.blogspot.com 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 Gary Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 6:19 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Y!M] Re: Cannot see IM text I have the current version of Yahoo Messenger, and when I say I cannot see the text, I mean when the IM box pops up for and incoming message, I cannot see the text AT ALL. I have also sent an email to Microsoft because of a problem with Windows Media Player not working, which I believe may be part of the reason Yahoo is not working.
