Windows messenger/yahoo messenger?

[Russ Smith]

Are these connected or totally different? While I was on sabbatical the guy who covered for me installed stuff on my work computer one of which appears to be windows messenger. I have yahoo messenger. I want to delete the windows messenger(annoying still pops up asking me to login as him and will occasionally notify me when his wife comes online). But I'm afraid to delete windows messenger because if it's somehow connected to Yahoo messenger, it will screw up my IM?

 

[dreamcastrocks]

Totally different.

You can even use programs out there like Trillian for example and combine the two, so that you can be logged into them at the same time, using only one program.

If you do not want to use the other type of programs, you can have AOL IM, Yahoo Messenger, as well as MSN messenger at the same time with no probs.

 

[SweetD]

I agree use trillian. www.trillian.cc great product that lets you do all your IMs. Only thing that if you use MSN in a network your status will not show.

 

[Russ Smith]

Thanks. The main problem I found is he has it setup to login automatically without a password. So when I reboot, it pops up and logs him in on my computer. Aside from being annoying, I don't particularly want access to his IM's, and apparently his email since it's apparently linked to his Yahoo email somehow.

I may just uninstall it. I only use IM at work with one friend who's work doesn't allow personal emails but does allow IM. I actually don't particularly like IM I prefer email, but having recently discovered we can use IM at home to call my girlfriends family in the Philippines, I'm now starting to use it more.

 

[dreamcastrocks]

you should be able to go into Yahoo's properties and turn off auto login. However, the next time they log in, they can just select the auto login box and go through the same problem again.

 

[CardFan67]

I agree use trillian. www.trillian.cc great product that lets you do all your IMs. Only thing that if you use MSN in a network your status will not show.

If you do a lot of simple instant text messaging on multiple applications Trillian is great. Puts everything together and is fairly easy to get used to when coming from all of the other instant messenger applications...

The one downfall with Trillian is that you lose any of the special features each IM Application offers, at least the last time I used it... Links to external user information, hot buttons, video conferencing, voice commands and audio capabilities often don't work properly, if at all...

For example, if you use Yahoo for video calls and you replace it with Trillian those features no longer work. If you use them with external options such as shortcuts that you would type into chat, the commands do not work either, so the recipient may end up with jibberish on the other end, or so my experience has been...

 

[FischerKing]

while trillian is a pretty cool program - i would caution anyone who is a software developer and uses that program on their development machine - it has the tendency to crash your IDE which is highly annoying. i use it on my home machine since I don't do work on it, but on my development machine at work, I just use each IM program individually.

shawn

 

[Mike Olbinski]

I agree use trillian. www.trillian.cc great product that lets you do all your IMs. Only thing that if you use MSN in a network your status will not show.

I use it too....love it.

 

[Kel Varnsen]

Is there an option in Windows Messenger anywhere to prevent the little taskbar from flashing blue when someone sends a message?

I want it to look like just another window is open, but I can't find a way to do that.

 

[Goldfield]

I use MSN IM & a friend uses Yahoo, we can IM each other just fine...

 

[FischerKing]

I use MSN IM & a friend uses Yahoo, we can IM each other just fine...

that is because msn has changed their program to allow it to communicated with other IM programs. previously older versions didn't allow that to happen.

shawn

 

[dreamcastrocks]

that is because msn has changed their program to allow it to communicated with other IM programs. previously older versions didn't allow that to happen.

shawn

Correct. Microsoft and Yahoo signed an agreement last year, in an attempt to take IM marketshare away from AOL IM. That is the reason they have tried to integrate their IM programs.