my interenet connection for yahoo messenger is set and locked on dial up instead of dsl. and it will not let me change it. any suggestions
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did you check your firewall settings? running a prog like zone alarm or mcafee?
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Hi,\n\nThere are 2 reasons for this as I know it from my experience.\n\n1) Cookies, Try clearing your cookies, set your adware & malware programs to do that & also you IE to do it. Though this problem is very unlikely Yahoo & MS these days are acting cranky with all their Beta's going around.\n\n2) Your firewall is definitely the culprit. Try disabling your firewall & restart the messenger service. Remember you must end the service through taksmanager first & then restart the messenger from your start menu.\n\nApart from this if all these fail then try this. Log in to your yahoo account from IE or whichever browser you are using & go to account settings. Change your password there & signout. Relogin from your browser & logout. Now restart you messenger & try it.\n\nGood luck.
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Few things to look for:\n\n1. Do you have cable or dsl or dial connection?\n2. Earlier when you did not have the router, were you entering the login/password to connect to internet? If so, you have to configure your cable/dsl modem to host the login/password. For SBC DSL modem you can do it by http://192.168.1.0/ and there is a option available in "advanced configuration" to do that.\n3. Did you connect the ethernet cable from the cable/dsl modem to the \n    WAN port of the router?\n4. Are you getting the Dynamic IP assigned by the router? Check it by Start->Run->Cmd->ipconfig. It should show you some IP address like 192.168.1.x.\n5. Run the following command in the command window (start->Run->cmd)\n       ping www.yahoo.com\n\nHope this helps.
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Lucky all you friends and most of your setting are saved on yahoos website.. So, Uninstall the yahoo you have now in control panel, add/remove programs.. Then goto\n\nhttp://messenger.yahoo.com\n\nand click get it now.\n\nIt should install fine then.. Good luck
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Hi... i had a problem with the install, it kept failing at the connection stage, i found that my old dial-up connection was still set as the default connection, so i set talk talk to default connection and it worked.\n\nLimbo
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I don`t know what exact cause of your issue is but I suggest to you perform these stages :\n1-Wait . Sometimes this is a ISP or Server problem.\n2-Check . Perform an online virus scan for viruses.\n3-Again. Uninstall yahoo messenger and install it again.
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go to settings and correct your connection type
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If you don't have dialup you have a big problem. Even on dialup, it should not have taken more than an hour and a half. Messenger 7.5 seems to be pretty unstable and it sounds like you have a virus also.\nScan your computer for viruses first then go to this site to get version 7  (or older if you only have Win98 or ME)\nhttp://www.oldversion.com/program.php?n=yahoo\nIf your computer is really really old like under 500MHZ with less than 128MB ram or something, it might not meet the minimum requirements. ALso this version only runs on WIndows XP.
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Go into preferences, check the "connection" and try different options. You're probably having a firewall issue.
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I'm thinkin your dsl modem needs to be reregistered with your server. Are you getting a "cannot find server" error?\nYou might try reseting your account. Go through the account setup software again.
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Yes, there may be a problem with a firewall setting. \n\nMake sure the firewall recognizes the Yahoo and that it is on the OK list.\n\nOpen Windows Security Center, click on Manage security settings for Windows Firewall. \n\nMake sure the "Don't allow Exceptions" box is not checked!\n\nNext, click "Exceptions" tab at the top and make sure Yahoo FT Server and Yahoo Messenger is on the list.\n\nIf this does not work, install Yahoo Messenger and reinstall it.\n\nHope this helps....
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Check Yahoo Messenger 'Connection Preferences' . POroxy setting if you using proxy
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This might not help, but trying won't do any harm...\n\nOpen your messenger and click on preferences (or hold Ctrl+Shift+P), and select the connections option.\nIf it's set to No proxies, change it to Firewall with no proxies, then select your connection settings, press apply then try to connect again.\nIf this doesn't work then try playing around with the preferences, but remember to return it to the original settings if nothing fixes the problem.\nIf all else fails, uninstall and re-install again, and if that fails contact Yahoo messenger help (F1 in messenger).\n\nGood luck!
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Your best bet would be to call tech support it's free and they'll help you step by step.  I also have AOL, but I'm sticking w/yahoo messenger.
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download the yahoo messenger again , and upgrade it\nerror would be fixed\nbye
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Please reinstall yahoo messenger. If ur using it in college, u need to put relevant http connection settings. U can get it from the college IT staff. Redefine the connection settings properly.
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you always have the option of switching isp..\n\nto fix your problem try firefox...