Can't see text in Yahoo - Tried everything!

[April12345]

Hi all... I need your help! I saw similar topics to mine but none of the fixes they had worked for me.

My yahoo I can see my writing as I type it, but as soon as I click send I can't see anything, also I can see the person typing a response but cannot see their text once they send it.

I've enabled scripting, installed earlier versions, my text is not white, changed my general preferences, disabled my firewall, disabled my anti virus thing, etc. I really don't know what else to do! This has been a problem for about a week now and I'm at my wits end!

[patndoris]

Hello and welcome to BBB! This is a most frustrating problem, I know as I've had it before. Give this a try - it worked for me and a number of other people:

Go into your browser settings and make sure you do NOT block any pop-ups. Also check all tool bars you may have added (Google, Yahoo, etc.) and ensure none of them are blocking pop ups either (since most of them have an option to do so.) If you happen to have Firefox installed (or AOL for that matter) they both have their own pop-up blockers and you'd need to disable them as well. The object is to turn off all pop up blockers everywhere you can find.

It means you'll have to deal with pop-ups when you're on the internet, but it seems to stop the problem from happening in text. I haven't found it too terribly inconvenient when I'm surfing the net. Please let me know if this works!

-Doris-

[April12345]

Thank you for trying! I tried your idea and it did not work I simply don't know what else to do!!

[Philip]

Do you have Zone Alarm in your system? If so, uninstall it completely, reboot and see whether the problem recurs.

[April12345]

No zone alarm.. just windows defender which I disabled, and mcafee which I also disabled. I disabled my firefox as well. It's so irritating!! I don't understand what on earth is the problem.

Although I recently had spyware on my computer..as soon as I downloaded programs to get rid of the spyware, that is when yahoo stopped working. I have uninstalled all the programs I used for that though, so i'm not sure what else it could be.

I appreciate any further advice, and thank you for the replies so far!

[Philip]

Have you tried uninstalling Yahoo Messenger completely and then downloading the latest stable version to install?

[April12345]

Yes, I have tried that many different times with many different versions.

[Philip]

April, this is not a solution, but can you sign in to Yahoo Web Messenger without any of the text problems?

[patndoris]

Firefox has it's own pop-up blocker, have you made sure to disable it as well as any you have in IE and on any toolbars?
-Doris-

[keloo05]

Try this...:
Start - Run - regsvr32 jscript.dll - OK
then
Start - Run - regsvr32 vbscript.dll - OK

It should work.