Friday, September 18, 2009

What to do if Your Image can't be displayed in Yahoo Messenger

If your image can't be displayed in your YM, some ways worth to try:

  1. Re-install your adobe flash player

  2. If the first way doesn't work, you still can change your display image by:
    • Open C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\Profiles\[Your YM Account]\My Icons
    • It'll show you all your display images you've inserted to YM in current PC
    • Click on run in the start menu of Windows, type regedit:HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> Yahoo -> pager -> profiles -> [Your YM Account] -> Friend Icon
    • Change/modify picture name in the path value to your desired picture name in C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\Profiles\[Your YM Account]\My Icons folder
    • Re-log in your Yahoo Messenger

You'll find actually it's really very easy to change display image in Yahoo Messenger.