Account Services

Account Settings, Options and Modifications

General Services

General Service Links on Yahoo

Messenger

Instant Messenging and Chat Program

Sound Files

How-to-install & use Sound Files in Yahoo Chat

Account Information requires the user to LOGIN in after which they may make alteration to their settings. They can find links here for various optional services as well.

Key Yahoo Accounting Links.

Account Information

This displays all of your Yahoo! Account Information and permits you to edit it.

Create and Edit Your Groups [Edit Friend's List]

You can do the same things shown here on Messenger's main screen but, you can print out these pages if you want hardcopy of your friend's list.

Display Your Profiles [Edit On-Line Status]

This page list's your current profiles (Aliases), let's you add new ones and change whether your online status is displayed on other Yahoo! services.

Sign up for your Yahoo! ID

Submit the information required for a NEW Yahoo! ID. This allows the user to login to many of Yahoo's services.

Terminating Your Account [Delete Yahoo ID]

This form allows the user to permanently remove a Yahoo! Account. Allow sufficient time for the information to be verified.

More Yahoo! is a page with the links to most every general service Yahoo! provides.

Key Yahoo General Services.

My Yahoo!

Set up a starting page for your account with the specific infomation you want.

Yahoo! Messenger is the primary instant messenging program for users. It provides instant communication, file sharing, chat and miscellaneous services in an online service accessed from a program downloaded to your computer.

Below are KEY links relating to messenger services as well as the folders and files where items are located.

Key Yahoo Messenger Folders/Files.

"C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\" - The Primary Yahoo! Messenger folder

This file contains the emotions that the user has access to from the chat room emotions ("!") display. Hit the link, then RIGHT-CLICK on the page and select view source.

"emote_user.dat" - The Yahoo! Emotions file on your computer

This file contains the emotions that the user has access to from the chat room emotions ("!") display. Hit the link, then RIGHT-CLICK on the page and select view source.

Key Yahoo Messenger Links.

BaseFaces - Alternative Yahoo Messenger Smiley Emoticons

These humorous alternative smiley's maybe utilized in place of the standard ones supplied by Yahoo. After bringing this site up, right click on each graphic and store it in this folder "C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\Media\Smileys" in place of the standard ones.

Decimal RGB Color Codes - Chart of VALUEs that can be directly entered into Color Selection Box

These are the codes for browser-SAFE colors that can be entered into the color selection options for Yahoo's Messenger Program.

" F R E E C R E E D . C O M " Download older versions of Yahoo Messenger.

All versions of messenger can be "Booted" from chat. Version 5's may have additional security harzards. The last version to these dangers but also images and other entertaining features was 5.1036.

"MessengerHTML.txt" - Yahoo! Messenger HTML

This is not a standard file but, examples of the internally known HTML-like commands that cause Yahoo's Messenger Program to treat text and pictures a certain way. Click on the link and then copy and paste from the window to the Messenger input area.

Wacky B...Yahoo! Messenger Smileys, Emoticons, tips and Secrets!

Some of the best coverage of Instant messenging programs including this start page on Yahoo! Instant Messenger. This is one of the best place to go to find out information on the most recent versions of the program.

It is possible to add user supplied sound files to Yahoo! Messenger Chat. Only .wav files are playable and you must have Microsoft's Media Player downloaded and specified as your default program used to open (therefore "play") these files.

Now you can supply your own sound files but, in my Std_Profile's Briefcase there exists a "Sounds" folder (open the briefcase then click on the "Sounds" folder) of .wav files that fellow Yahoo chatters have standardized on. Remember, if other people besides yourself are to hear the sounds they must have the similarly named files installed on their system. The next step is where to place the files on your computer.

The .wav files listed above must be downloaded into this folder: Yahoo! Messenger Media Folder (click on to open) on your hard drive. The direct method is to right click on the name of a file in Internet Explorer and then select the "Save Target as" option to bring up the download dialog box. At the top of the box you selectively step through folders in order to get to the

C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\Media

folder. Basically, select My Computer ... then C: ... then Program Files ... etc. until you arrive at the the final "Media" folder where you will notice the collection of already installed Wave Sound files. Once there click "Save" and finally "Close" if your computer prompts you at the conclusion of a download.

OK, now to "trigger" a sound file so that it plays in the chat room you type the following type of triggering tag into the chat room:

<snd=sound-name >

wheresound-name is the name of a sound file in the Yahoo! Messenger Media Folder without the .wav extentsion.