Does your messenger crash as soon as you start it?
Then odds are you have been sent a bootcode and it's in your offline messages.
How to remove the boot.
Well unfortunately, at present, you cannot delete the bootcode without losing all your offline messages.
but this is how to delete them all.
- Double click on the 'My Computer' icon located on your desktop.
- Double click on the icon marked (C:)
- Double click on the 'Program Files' folder.
- Double click on the 'Yahoo!' folder.
- Double click on the 'Messenger' folder.
- Double click on the 'StoredIM' folder.
- Now delete the entire contents of this folder.
Now messenger should start up just fine.
Stopping messenger boots in chat
OK on this page I'm going to tell you how to use the
filter1.txt (found in your Yahoo! Messenger folder) to stop you
being booted out of chat.
OK just a couple of quick points on this method.
Firstly it makes chat look ugly
as it replaces certain words and characters with * so you will see
all the tags that are used in chat.
Secondly it only works on these
sort of boots, it will not stop voice, webcam, nor any other type
of 'invite' bomb/boot.
OK, with that said let us proceed.
- Double click the 'My Computer' icon located on your
desktop.
- Double click on '(C:)', Then double click on 'Program
Files'.
- Double click on 'Yahoo!', Then double click on
'Messenger'.
- Now locate your 'filter1.txt' file and double click on it to
open it.
(Please note the file name may just appear as 'filter1' on your
computer.)
- OK, Now unless you want to filter out all the words in the
file, delete them all.
- Now type in "<f,<a,www." (without the ") and save the
file.
- Now activate word filter and messenger will replace
<f,<a, and www. in chat with stars.
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This does unfortunately make font tags visible but does stop your
messenger crashing (hopefully).
Personally I think this makes chat look ugly, So unless you use
voice chat I recommend using one of the clients listed on the
'Client' page.
Cheeta and Ychat are probably the easiest for the beginner, but
Yahelite deals with flooding in chat better.
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