Why does Yahoo messenger knock me off?

I recently downloaded Yahoo Messenger 8.0 and now my sounds are gone. Y?

• After I downloaded Yahoo Messenger 8.0 the sound effects of people signing on (the knock on the door) and the sound of people logging off (the door closing) and the sound when people IM you are gone. Now all the sounds are the same. Its a very faint hardley can hear it noise for everything, from people signing on and off, to people sending IM's. Can Any1 help?

• Answer:

  Yahoo! changed the sounds from v800701 (released 10 August 06) onwards to "new" ones (they are actually from the Mac version) so our familiar sounds are no more... the latest ones are really quiet also which is why some ppl think they no longer have sounds.. but they do.. it's just that these ones tend to whisper ;) A simple method for converting back to the old sounds is to replace the new sounds with the old ones which you can download the previous sounds (.wav files) to replace your existing ones from... http://www.wackyb.com/zzub/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=779 or http://www.wackyb.co.nz/yh/v8/sounds/WackyB.co.nz_800683sounds.zip instructions included with the .zip file but basically just unzip the file, copy and paste all the .wav file included and drop them into C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\Media and overwrite when prompted This does have a few disadvantages though, like - it's more difficult to change individual sounds (you may like the new 'buzz' sound but want the old sign on 'knock' sound back) - When you update messenger it will restore the new sounds - Every user logging onto the same computer has to have the old or new sounds the same as everyone else. - You have to know how to unzip files and place the sounds in the correct folders so Andy created a nifty utility "Yahoo Sound Alerts Reset" that lets you pick and choose which sounds (old and new) for each event and for each user. You can quickly choose to set all alert sounds to the old or new sounds for any number of users on your machine (just tick the check box), or click the edit button beside the user name to toggle individual alert sounds from the old to new and back again. No zip files to locate, no changes need to be made when upgrading messenger, toggle from old to new any number of times even while messenger is running to read more about Yahoo Sound Alerts Reset or to download the utility, check out.... http://www.wackyb.co.nz/option,com_remository/Itemid,3894/func,fileinfo/id,12/