Vista - yahoo contact not working on WLM

Have Live Mess. installed and can talk(chat) with my son no problem but my
daughter can only use Yahoo! at work. I can talk to both using Yahoo! but
cannot talk with her using WLM.

Any suggestion please,

thanks,

Greetings,

What exactly happens when you try? Just so we're on the same page, when you add a Yahoo
contact, you have to add them as yahooid@xxxxxx in Messenger.

Alternatively you can just download and install Yahoo Messenger yourself
(http://messenger.yahoo.com) and make your own Yahoo ID. It's more reliable then the Yahoo
functionality within Live Messenger and you'll gain the full functionality of the real client
(like file transfer). Yahoo Messenger will not interfere with Live Messenger.

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Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
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"L.S." <notgood@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:usKnjFMrJHA.2368@xxxxxx

I can add my daughter, no problem, but she is shown as not connected/online
when I know she is.
She can only use Yahoo! because of work constraint and my son, who is using
WLM, has the same problem at his work.

I can actually talk/chat with both of them on Yahoo! but I like WLM and I'm
trying to get it to accept and recognize my daughter.
I've read that both IM's must be updated version. She's still running Yahoo!
7.0 which may be the problem or it may be her server at work. Who knows.

Like I stated, yahoo! can find my son so I could use Yahoo! but I'm trying
to figure WLM out.


"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" <msnewsreplies@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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update;
Last night I could talk/chat with my daughter on my grandson's laptop from
home using WLM.
He has yahoo! 8.0 and an older version of MSM Mess. loaded on his system.
Strang thing is she was only logged into her yahoo mail account and not
messenger of either type.

I'm down to thinking it's her server or her older version of yahoo!(7.0).
Again, somewhere I read that since she can only use yahoo!, she has an older
version of it (7.0), both version have to be updated. Not sure if this has
anything to do with the problem or not.

thoughts please,

"L.S." <notgood@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:eH6LXaXrJHA.5912@xxxxxx

Hi,

Yes this is correct, the Yahoo user must be using at least 8.0 for this to work.

As I already said, just use Yahoo Messenger.

--
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
(c) 2009 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation
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"L.S." <notgood@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:OcrPOfhrJHA.1304@xxxxxx