How do you create an auto reply on Yahoo messenger?

I want to know why some brainiac can't tell me how to create my avatar in yahoo messenger 11.?

• I do not want any more answers saying that I have to go to avatar web page, download, and select create avatar or any of that. I've already done that. I've disabled active X, disabled everything pretty much, even waited 24 hours and nothing. I've resent my router/moden for 8 hours because someone said that would work. It's about to drive me insane trying to figure this out. I have windows 7, with IE9, yahoo messenger 11. This is what help said to create my avatar. Go to the yahoo avatar website, select gender, then click create my avatar. I get a blank box and even the boxes where the choices of eyes/hairstypes, faces, etc. are blank with a red "x" in top left corner and above box a add to favorites. Then the preview box is blank as well. it will not let me do anything. WTF?????? So please don't send a reply and tell me to do all this again because it doesn't work on my computer. From what I've seen a lot of other people have the same problem and when they ask how to do it here on answers, all they get is the same answer help says to create it. It doesn't work people. I'm so mad because I've spent probably 20 hours on this and research trying to figure it out. It's gotta be internet explorer. More than likely. Seems like that is the root of a lot of my problems here lately. It's always something. I just need to go back to mozilla or opera I guess.

• Answer:

  If you use Internet Explorer 8 or 9 as your browser, Yahoo Messenger 10 or 11 will not work properly without updated Flash and Java programs also installed, and possibly the .NET framework update. http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ (for Messenger 10+, on IE 8+) http://java.com/en/download/index.jsp (for Messenger 10+, on IE 8+) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework (for Messenger 10+, on IE 8+) For Messenger: click your current avatar or name, ‘Share my Picture’, click the suggested pictures box, Browse ... , highlight and open the file, then OK. P.S.: Mine also shows up in the main Messenger program, because I used another technique. Open the Messenger, click Messenger tab > My Display Image > Share My Avatar. You could also use a picture here, or choose different avatars or pictures for Answers and Messenger. P.S. I'm not a braniac - it took searching 4 pages of Google to find an installation method that worked, and it suggested these. (I cannot find the page again to cite as a source.) (Ribbit)