Hack: Tabs in Yahoo! Messenger

alsiladka · 24-02-2007, 12:49 AM

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As you may have seen in the preview of Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista, tabbed IM windows are coming soon. This feature lets group multiple conversations into one IM window and use tabs to navigate among them.As it turns out, there are several hidden features that are built into Yahoo! Messenger, which can be turned on with changes to the Windows registry settings. One of our Messenger engineers, Hung Nguyen, developed some code that when installed, adds tabs to Yahoo! Messenger 8.1 (on Windows XP).

To try it out, first close all the IM windows you have open. Then click the “Turn ON tabs in Yahoo! Messenger” link below. When the download window appears, click the “Run” button and follow the on-screen instructions to install it. The next time you’re in two or more IM conversations at the same time, you’ll see the tabs in action. To close a tab, just right click on it.

Turn ON tabs in Yahoo! Messenger 8.1
Turn OFF tabs in Yahoo! Messenger 8.1

Keep in mind this is a hack for Yahoo! Messenger that has not been exhaustively tested. There are some challenges with it so if you want to remove it, click the “Turn OFF tabs in Yahoo! Messenger” link above to download and run the .reg file (Yahoo! Messenger does not need to be running to remove it). I did experience some display issues with my IM windows initially, but a click and drag of the bottom right corner of my IM window corrected it.
Thanks to Hung for creating this and to our friends at WackyB for first making this available for download.

Cool Man!!! Will be so helpful to reduce the clutter onscreen when chatting with so many people

Source : Yahoo Messenger Blog

Update utility for Yahoo Messenger Tabbed IM windows

Problems with the current tabbed IM chat windows for Yahoo Messenger make it almost impossible to use:

You have to have a IM window open to receive new IM messages
You dont know which tab has sent you a new message
you dont know if any new messages have been received if the Tab IM window has focus
You have to resize the window each time a new message tab is opened
Changing and closing tabs does not change the window title
You have to run a reg file to enable/disable each time

WackyB-IMTab-Fix solves all these problems:

Enables tabbed IM windows when you start WackyB-IMTabFix
Disables tabbed IM windows when you close
New IM windows are displayed correctly
Notification is given in window title when new message received
Sound alert with new IM from hidden tab
Changing tabs updates window title
First IM received displays correctly

** IF YOU DONT RUN THIS UTILITY AND IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A TABBED IM WINDOW OPEN YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE NEW IM MESSAGES! **

Download

* Some users may receive an error/warning during install, simply click 'OK' to ignore this.

2) Install and run from you start menu.

Note: Ensure ALL IM windows are closed BEFORE starting WackyB-TabIM-Fix
WackyB-TabIM-Fix runs in the background taking care of your tabs, to exit click the icon in your system tray

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caleb · 24-02-2007, 01:43 AM

Interesting

Sourabh · 24-02-2007, 06:11 AM

This is really nice, was waiting for something like this. Would give it a try soon.

piyush gupta · 26-02-2007, 06:48 PM

very gud stuff

Tech Geek · 26-02-2007, 07:26 PM

when i click on links they show some registry thingy????

alsiladka · 26-02-2007, 07:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Tech Geek

when i click on links they show some registry thingy????

Yes, it is a Registry tweak which enables tabs in yahoo messenger.
But it was extremely problematic.

Here is a new tool by the same guy, which is better and solves all those problems.

It is an application which you should run along with the messenger.

You can find details over here :
http://www.wackyb.co.nz/vb/showthread.php?p=1471