How do I delete new status messages that I have created?

you can either create another few (it stores 5) to bump them off the list or as they are stored in your registry and as such difficult to remove, andy created a little utility Clear/Edit Messenger status history that will remove / edit your previous Yahoo Messenger status messages, you can either clear all or just select which ones to remove, you can also edit existing ones (for like if you do a typo etc) or create new ones you can download it from our repository page... http://www.wackyb.co.nz/option,com_remository/Itemid,3894/func,fileinfo/id,5/ or check out his forum thread... http://www.wackyb.co.nz/vb/showthread.php?t=353

Why would you want to edit your registry manually with all those steps, even if you know what you are doing it will take a bit of time just to navigate to the correct key to change.. when you can use the status editor utility posted by bee above which will clear not only yours but all the ID's on your computer (if you wish) as well as allowing you to edit all the status messages at a click of a button? would be like using telnet to your mail smtp server to send an E-mail rather then using a E-mail program...

Once you choose "New Status Message" you will be able to delete the previous one. You can have several to choose from at any one time. I know people who change them everytime they feel like it, many times a day.

on your yahoo im go to contacts and click on stealth settings

OR just follow these steps.... dont have to download any utility r anything just have to have a lil computer knowldge... Try the following steps.. But custom messages can be cleared by the following method.. STRONGLY CAUTIONED 'cos this is for advaced users... or you need to know to play in the registry Click on Start > Run.. and in the Run box type "regedit" (without the double quotes ofcourse).... so now a new window will open and this is where you generally edit the registry... (DO NOT i repeat DO NOT do anything else other than said here if you dont know much about it) So in the "Registry Ediotr" window click on the + near the "HKEY_CURRENT_USER" (which should be the second option)... now you wil get a list of registry values... now click on the + next to "SOFTWARE".... and another long set of registry vales will open up.. And then scrool down to where you can find "Yahoo!" under the just opened section "Software" and click on the plus next to "Yahoo!" and you'll get three options generaly. They are Audio Conferencing.. Pager and Profiles... Click on the +next to "PAGER"... and another set of reistry values will open up In that click on the + next to "PROFILES" .... the "profiles" section should be opened IN the "Pager" section.... when you click on the +next to the profiles (in pager section) the users who have logged in to yahoo from tha computer will show up.... Click on the +next to your username and that in again open up another list and now click on the section titled "CUSTOM MSGS".... now on the right side window some values will load up... if you want to clear all your custom messages then delete all the files escept the DEFAULT file at the top... if you want to delete a particular message.... lets say if your message yu want to delete is THIRD from top in the custom messages section (which comes after the preloaded yahoo messages)... then just delete all the values in the right side box which shows 3 (3_bin for example).. and that particular custom message will be gone... and again please be careful while you play in the Registry Editor.... Good Luck and Hope that helped..