What's wrong with my Yahoo! Messenger?

Whats wrong with messenger? cant seem to sign. [email protected] is my ID on yahoo messenger.?

• i have tried and tried to sign into yahoo messenger and it wont let me sign in so i changed my password and still cant sign in. i can get into my yahoo mail just fine even with the new password but not messenger. is messenger down for some reason?

• Answer:

  SIGN-IN PROBLEMS WITH YAHOO MESSENGER If this is the first time that you have had the problem first try exiting Y!M by right clicking the Yahoo! icon by your clock and choosing exit. Then relaunch Y!M and try again. If you still have problems reboot your computer. Some of these issues just work themselves out after a certain amount of time. If you do not want to wait then you can try checking into a few things, and the troubleshooting steps below. PLEASE CHECK 1. First if you are using a firewall make sure you are using Yahoo Messenger 9.0 or it probably will not work. Read more about this here: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/messenger/messenger9/messenger/ms9tafirewallupgrade.html;_ylt=Au2Jc0mQJ6Xw3m9abgScl3uQLCV4 2. If you do not have the latest non Beta version of Yahoo Messenger then be sure to update it here: Full Installer for Yahoo Messenger 9.0.0.2162 http://download.yimg.com/ycs/msg/dl/msgr9/us/ymsgr900_2162_us.exe This latest update to 9.0 fixes some sign-in issues some Vista users were having. 3. There also appears to be a conflict between SpeedBit Video Accelerator and Yahoo Messenger. Read more here about that issue: http://www.ymessengerblog.com/blog/2009/02/04/fyi-yahoo-messenger-90-and-speedbit-software-conflict/ TROUBLESHOOTING STEPS FOR SIGN IN PROBLEMS!!! Yahoo has developed a series of Troubleshooting steps to follow if you are having difficulties Signing into Yahoo Messenger. Follow each on of them on this link and the last step will give you the link to contact Yahoo! if you are still having problems: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/messenger/messenger9/messenger/ms9tasignintips.html;_ylt=ApDjjtsReA3QD5KXyYGjzNeQLCV4 The Yahoo Messenger Blog recently had an article about sign in problems on Yahoo Messenger, you can check out: http://www.ymessengerblog.com/blog/2009/08/18/help-with-sign-on-issues-in-yahoo-messenger-9-0/ =============================== If you are still having problems signing in, and you do not want to wait for Yahoo Customer Support to get back to you, you can try doing a complete uninstall of Yahoo Messenger. This is much more than just uninstalling through Add/Remove programs which leaves folders and files behind. Sometimes when people do not do a complete uninstall before they update to a newer version, problems can happen. Read here how to do a complete uninstall: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090809003640AAtbcCP