After you have downloaded whatever skin you like- and I hope you like them all; you need to unzip it.
For more help check out Nhyrvana's site, not only for skinning help but help on just about anything you need to know... this is to jump to her skin page, Help installing Yahoo messenger skins
A lot of people have recently been writing me asking how to install the themes/skins they have downloaded from my site, so I decided maybe I should have a help page- well here you go.
Now here comes the part that seems to be confusing to everyone.
Unzip to C/program files/Yahoo/messenger/skins/ (name of skin)
OR
Unzip files, then create a folder named the same as the zip file (i.e. Xena) place all the files into the newly named folder, place the folder in C/program files/Yahoo/messenger/skins ~~~do notice the capital Y in Yahoo, if you type the name in yourself, make sure you capitalize otherwise it will create a new yahoo folder that your skin be hiding in; don't learn this the hard way! (like me - ha ha)~~~
You right click on the folder, hit cut, and when you get to the skin folder you right click on it and hit paste.
You double click-- My computer, C drive, then the program files folder, then
the Yahoo! folder, then the Messenger folder, then the skins folder.
Then when you log into messenger you are a couple quick steps away from viewing your new skin-- you hit the login tab, then preferences, then appearance- there a drop down box appears with the name of ALL installed skins, you scroll through until you find the one you want, perhaps adjust the colors for text, hit apply and viola!!!! Your brand spanking new skin is in!!!!!!
For her index page go here Nhyrvana.com
There you will find everything you need to know about Yahoo and darn near any other computer questions you have- and if she doesn't have the info you need, she knows someone who does!!! A great site!