WOW... excellent questions. Unfortunately, I don't have any excellent answers. LOL
As far as your third question about the history in the drop down menu when you first type a letter, many programs use different types of files for this feature. MS-Outlook uses a .nk2 file so that when you start to type an email address, Outlook will offer all options starting with that letter. IE (Internet Explorer) calls it autocomplete or the History list and it's easy to clear. Now, as far as YM... I have never seen a way to clear out that log. I even just now went into the Yahoo! Messenger Program folder and looked through files that have been modified in the past day on my own computer and opened every file that I was not sure of what it was looking at it with Notepad trying to find a file with a list of names but found nothing. I'm sure it exists but I'm just not sure where at. If you absolutely have to get rid of it, I would have to tell you to uninstall YM, clean the registry, go into the C:\Program Files and move your Profile folder so you'll save your chat archives. Then clean the registry again. Then reinstall YM from the full version. After it's installed, while it's not logged in yet, you can move the Profile folder back into place so you'll still have your archives. Open up YM and see if that saved your archives while getting rid of the history. I have a long blog article on "How I ALWAYS do a clean install of YM" http://lennyvasbinder.blogspot.com/2007/11/how-i-always-do-clean-instal-ofl- yahoo.html that will add to the above short instructions. I wrote it back in 2007 but it's still applicable today although the versions mentioned have changed. As to your first paragraph, I also use 8.1x. I don't consider it an old version but rather the last version that worked halfway decent. I only started using 8.1 in the past six months and used 7.5x up until then. I concur that 9.0x have been riddled with probs for many users. Since you did try version 9.0x, you should probably do the uninstall and registry cleanup mentioned above and then reinstall a FULL version of 8.1x. Hopefully that will fix things. As far as paragraph two, I think the above fixes should also fix that. I really suspect a bad single or series of .dll files that might have been left over from 9.0x or other versions or corrupted .dll files from your most recent install of 8.1x, especially if you used Yahoo to download it from. Your other option is to call Yahoo directly and try to get through to their Yahoo Messenger division. Here are their numbers for the USA. If you live elsewhere, let me know and I'll dig up them numbers. Yahoo! Inc. 701 First Avenue Sunnyvale, California 94089 Phone (408) 349-3300 Fax (408) 349-3301 Office Hours 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. PS Yahoo! US contact information is: Customer Support: (408) 349-3300 (866) 562-7219 (408)-349-1572 Let us know how things work out. 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 imma_brat69 Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 4:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Y!M] Hi :o) This is my first post so hi to all and thanks in advance for listening to me whine about yahoo messenger lol The first problem I'm having (I have an older version btw, it's 8.1 something not the new version which for me just really messed up everything) each time I log in I need to remain invisible or it will sign me out. It doesn't matter if I try to unstealth for just one person or go available to all it signs me out.. this just started in the last 3 days and is very annoying. I can still log in and use it but I need to invisible to do it *shrugs* The second problem is, I have my settings to save archives.. and keep them, not just save until I log out but it isn't saving anything. I keep checking the setting and it's set to save them (first button) but it isn't doing it. This also has been only recently and I have lost some (not all) of my old archives which is a bummer. Could I maybe have something going on on my pc that is deleting this stuff when I log off that has nothing to do with yahoo??? Some kind of history deleting thing or privacy thing? I use Mozilla firefox and McAfee virus but I always have with no problems... any clue here?? The last thing is a question.. I'm trying to figure out how to delete my search history from the messenger. I'm talking about the little box you can type ID's and things in that has a drop-down that shows all your IM's, sms and things.. can you clear that? I haven't found an option for it. I appreciate your help.. sorry this is so long
