I think I'm going to have to update my article about Yahoo Messenger on my blog to try and encourage people to avoid all the plug-ins. Just like with any program, when you start adding all kinds of plug-ins, they usually cause problems for the main program. I see this in tech groups for things like Outlook, various browsers, etc. Toolbars, plug-ins, add-ons, etc., will only cause bloat and conflicts to the main program.
There are already far too many other media players out there trying to infest peoples computers... YM does not need yet another one. The problems with media players is that they all want to make themselves the "default" player by default so when you install it, it then tries to change all of your pre-existing settings. QuickTime, RealPlayer and other players are notorious for this and will then cause all kinds of problems and then they all want to add themselves to the StartUp folder so all of these new processes are added to the startup and shutdown of the machine just slowing it down and adding a lot of unnecessary bloat. Lenny Vasbinder Fish Blog - http://GoldLenny.blogspot.com (Links to any articles referenced in above reply are listed on the right side, alphabetically under Labels and also under Archives by Year, Month) -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Meister John Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 9:15 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Y!M] Re: Cannot see IM text I believe you are partly correct about WMP and Yahoo Messenger problems being related. Yahoo Messenger 9, I believe, has it's own media player built-in. This could cause a conflict especially if you also have other media players installed. Also Messenger 9 has several bugs, I have heard they have just released an update. I suggest you uninstall Yahoo Messenger, then run a registry cleaner such as EasyCleaner or CCleaner (both are free). Then download and install a full version (not the one at the Yahoo Messenger site). I suggest FileHippo as a source as they are usually up-to-date. Messenger 9.0.0.21112 <http://www.filehippo.com/download_yahoo_messenger/> will take you there. Please note the link will not download anything but will take you to the download location. You can even try a previous version. John --- On Fri, 1/23/09, Gary <[email protected]> wrote: From: Gary <[email protected]> Subject: [Y!M] Re: Cannot see IM text To: [email protected] Date: Friday, January 23, 2009, 7:19 AM 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.
