[azha]

i dont know whats wrong with my ym, it just doesnt LAUNCH, doesnt pop up after several attempts at downloading it.What could possibly be wrong? I have java installed, what settings could possibly be stopping it from launching? Am i doing something wrong? Could it possibly becaust of my anti-virus software or firewall? Pls. help. Im a total newbie at this(obviously).Please post with SPECIFIC instructions. Totally lost. Iv downloaded it gazillions of times and it just doesnt work.

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Hello azha,
welcome to geekstogo
i'm not quite sure whats going on. When you say that you have reinstalled oit several times do you mean you just reinstall it or do you remove it buy going to add/remove programs and then install it again. This method is much better. If you have already done this method or you need me to be more spacific please send another post. Also there is another instant messaging program called Trillian that works great and can access a bunch of different companies such as YM, MSN to name a few. You could give this a try if you want.
thanx
James

[james_8970]

Hello azha,
welcome to geekstogo
i'm not quite sure whats going on. When you say that you have reinstalled oit several times do you mean you just reinstall it or do you remove it buy going to add/remove programs and then install it again. This method is much better. If you have already done this method or you need me to be more spacific please send another post. Also there is another instant messaging program called Trillian that works great and can access a bunch of different companies such as YM, MSN to name a few. You could give this a try if you want.
thanx
James

[azha]

i've been uninstalling and reinstalling it several times . thanks for the input, ill try Trillian.

[jrom727]

Trillian is good.. but you might not be able to utilize the other features of YM, especially if ur friend(s) are using it...

What firewall software are you using?
you could have block it by accident...

please see the following links:

http://help.yahoo.co.../signin-07.html
http://help.yahoo.co.../signin-01.html


Edit: btw, welcome to G2G, hehe

Edited by jrom727, 08 February 2006 - 09:56 PM.

[james_8970]

humf never even thought about the firewall on this one.
James