Clear or Edit Yahoo Custom Messenger Status Messages

The Yahoo Messenger service stores recent status messages in history. Here is trick to clear and edit custom status messages on yahoo messenger. Its very easy tutorial you can follow below steps and you can clear the history.

Step 1: Go to Start –> Run. Type regedit and press enter.

Step 2: Navigate to below key.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\yahoo\pager\profiles\your username\Custom Msgs

Note: Replace your yahoo username with your yahoo id or yahoo profile id

Step 3: In data you will be able to see status message.Delete REG_SZ key by selecting the entry from name column.For example select 4_W and press delete.

Step 4: Now navigate to below key

HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-746137067-448539723-839522115-1003\Software\yahoo\pager\profiles\your username\Custom Msgs

Repeat step 3

You have done it.Restart yahoo messenger if its running.

That's It you can now easily do above trick.

Cheers
Gary

2 comments:

Gil said...

Gary, that was a GREAT trick! Thanks!

Gil said...

Gary, that was a neat trick! Thank you for posting it!