Blooper!
When I learned that Yahoo! Messenger has a new version with new features like PC-to-PC calls and drag-and-drop photos, I e-mailed all my friends and invited them to get the latest version.Should have known! It seems that Microsoft and Yahoo! made an agreement. If you use the newest version of Yahoo! Messenger, which is Yahoo! Messenger 7 or more popularly known as Yahoo! Messenger with Voice, and the Windows in your computer is unlicensed (pirated), Yahoo! Messenger with Voice corrupts your operating system. There has been a number of cases here where the contents of their hard disk was deleted and partition corrupted. All these I've learned from the computer technician who, for the past few weeks, have been servicing computers with the same problem.
If you want to install the old version of Yahoo! Messenger (version 6), please follow these instructions:
- Uninstall Yahoo! Messenger with Voice (at Control Panel>Add or Remove Programs, remove Yahoo! Messenger).
- Open ""My Computer" or "Windows Explorer" to check if the "Messenger" folder still exists (Program Files>Yahoo>Messenger). Delete the "Messenger" folder. Preferably, the "Yahoo" folder should be deleted. If you want to do this, be sure to unistall first all Yahoo! programs you installed in your computer before deleting the "Yahoo" folder.
- Get the old version of Yahoo! Messenger here.
- A window will appear to ask you whether to Open, Save or Cancel. Check that ymsgr_1750.exe is the one being downloaded. Choose Open.
- After installing the old version, go again to the "Messenger" folder to rename the "yupdater.exe" file to "yupd.exe". This is to disable Yahoo! Messenger to ask you from time to time to download the latest version of Yahoo! Messenger.
NOTICE: (02Sep2005)
Looks like Yahoo! has beat me to the punch. They must have known I have been propagating the information regarding Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. The link I provided to download the old version of Yahoo! Messenger can no longer be accessed. If you still want to get the installer for Yahoo! Messenger 6, please click here and save it in your computer. Then, unzip the file and run it from your PC.
To verify the file downloaded, check the following:
File Size: 4.49MB
File Version: 6.0.0.1750
Description: Yahoo! Messenger
Copyright: 1997-2004 Yahoo! Inc.
Or you can get the old version of Yahoo! Messenger from this site: http://www.oldversion.com/program.php?n=yahoo
posted by ~GFA~ @ 9/01/2005 10:59:00 PM
7 Comments:
Start a blogg save a tree. Great blogg.
uhmm,hirap po magcomment kasi ala nman akong pc tsaka di ako sold sa voice mail,and tama na sa kin yung windows xp,and tama yung nasa isip ko na baka mamonitor ng yahoo yung post mo,di ba?,,,rac
teka po, parang may pc ka sa bahay, di ba? at pirated na windows XP pa? hehehe! c",) paano kung install nila dun yung bagong version ng YM, nalagot na! nabura lahat laman ng PC mo.
bakit po ayaw mo voice chat? mas gusto mo magbayad ng long distance? :P
tingin ko, nde yung post ko dito nakita ng Yahoo! monitor nila sigurado yung mga e-mails. eh, syempre, dami ko pinadalhan na Yahoo! ang e-mail nila...
Hey What Have you been smoking? I want some of that
Hey BTW Who is your Tech? Does he also Smoke that funny shit?
damn would love to know where your so called "source" comes from ...just so i can tell people to stay the hell away!!!! geeesh some people oh and btw slap that so call "tech" of yours ;)
hey! it's up to you to believe it or not. maybe the reason you're not experiencing the problem because you have a licensed copy of the Windows. some of us (not me) uses pirated copy of Windows...
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