By George Norman
Added on 09 Dec 2009(14897 Views)



At the time of writing this, the latest version of the Yahoo! developed instant messaging application for Windows users is Yahoo! Messenger 10. It comes with several new bits and pieces compared to Yahoo! Messenger 9. Like for example Y! Updates, an alternative contacts list view that displays a stream of updates (in real-time).

To put it simply, if you click Y! Updates you will see a list of contacts that updated their status, linked to a certain webpage, said something on Twitter, and so on. The annoying thing is that each time Y! Updates lists a new item, you will see a popup in the bottom right hand corner of the window. This could be annoying if one of your contacts keeps updating his status every two seconds.

Luckily enough there is something you can do. You can set it so that Yahoo! Messenger does not display popups when someone updates their status. Here is what you have to do.

Step 1. First of all you’ll need to launch Yahoo! Messenger and sign into your account.

Step 2. From the list of menus at the top, click Messenger.

Step 3. Now click Yahoo! Updates under Category.

Step 4. Click the Customize Yahoo! Updates button.

Step 5. Uncheck the box next to Show Alert. No matter on what Yahoo! site someone does something new, you will not get a popup.
To only remove the popup for when someone updates his Yahoo! Messenger status, leave that box checked. Uncheck the box next to Yahoo! Messenger. You will still get popups, but not when someone does something new on Yahoo! Messenger.

Step 6. Click OK to close the Yahoo! Updates window.

Step 7. Click OK to close the Yahoo! Messenger Preferences window.

Tips and warnings
  • You can still see what you’re friends are up to by clicking the Y! Updates window. Just that when a new item will be added to Y! Updates, you won’t see a popup in the bottom right hand corner of the screen.
  • If you are still using Yahoo! Messenger 9 and would like to upgrade to Yahoo! Messenger 10, take a look at this tutorial.
  • For iPhone users there’s also Yahoo! Messenger for iPhone.




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Comments

Layna - 15 Oct 2011 06:15
If you can see someone's Updates on your Yahoo Messenger, does that mean they still have you in their contacts, though, they are on INVISIBLE?...Thankyou.
Bosco - 09 Oct 2011 07:33
Hi! would like help to delete in (Option menu source table subtitle) in Yahoo Updates Thanks
TBD - 20 Jun 2011 09:48
Between Step2 and Step3 there is another step to be done. Open Preference window.
Sue - 24 May 2011 06:51
Cindy ... I want to scream too. Actually I have been. I want to be able to delete different updates and I can't. I'm ready to ditch Yahoo completely for something else. Grrrrrrrrrrr
Versus - 12 May 2011 23:38
Thanks for this, I put a comment in some yahoo news and wanted to delete it. Thanks that I found this post.
Cindy - 02 Apr 2011 07:15
I need to get rid of updates of mine showing in messenger even though I did not have them listed on my profile and followed directions to get there and low and behold none of my updates that are showing from me of the view of myself online on the yahoo messenger show my past updates and want to permanantly remove them. So far-no way to remove them have I yet found! I want to scream!
kenya - 30 Nov 2010 05:29
thanks you those yahoo-facebook updates were driving me nuts!
Diana - 10 Oct 2010 16:43
Hye . I wana knw that i updtaed some status on my messenger ...
Find PDF eBook - 23 Aug 2010 07:24
ahh i finally found what i'm searching for last couple of days.. many thanks for sharing the toughts..
Find PDF eBook - 23 Aug 2010 07:24
ahh i finally found what i'm searching for last couple of days.. many thanks for sharing the toughts..

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