OK - we upgraded to Yahoo Messenger 9.0 at home and almost immediately regretted it.

If I open Messenger, it prevents other applications from even working. Apparently, 9.0 was created for Vista, but we don't HAVE Vista on our home PC. If I want to view any other web pages after I've opened Messenger, I have to completely shut down and start over.

Not fun - and it's been keeping me from chatting with my friends!

Anyone have a link to Messenger 7.0? So we can go back?

Thanks

First uninstall YIM 9 using Add/Remove programs, then you can reinstall YIM 7 through Oldversion.com

Be sure to dig through the preferences and disable automatic update checking. (Otherwise It'll nag you to "upgrade" to 9 again)

Thank you! It'll be a relief to get back to normal!

I believe I'll be downgrading too, the smileys, among other things dont even show up in this latest version.


chris

I have had a look back at all the Tech specs for this Program (versions/upgrades back to Version 7 )
It says they are all good for both Vista & XP

Why 9 does not work with XP is a Mystery
The Program is also bloating to 14Mb

Compromise would be to try the last upgrade version of Version 8?

quote:

Yahoo! Messenger 8.1.0.421
Yahoo! Inc - 9.95MB (Freeware) Date added: September 7, 2007

www.filehippo.com/download_yahoo_messenger/tech/3153/

Well, we downgraded and it still didn't solve everything, so I just won't be on Yahoo Msgr from home. Seemed to work initially, but then later on in the evening, I started having troubles with accessing web pages.

Thanks for the help all...I'm still glad we went back!