Vista and Yahoo Messenger PC to PC?

[tomsbbb]

Hello: Does anyone have vista, if so can you use the pc to pc feature in yahoo messenger 8.1.0.421

We can only IM with it, we cannot get the pc to pc to work with vista (it worked ok with xp)
One email from yahoo said it was Unavailable using vista at this time and another email said it should work!
Anyone using vista with this? Thanks

[mfenech]

If you mean the PC-PC calling/Yahoo Phone feature, it works just fine with Vista.

[tomsbbb]

Yes, its the pc to pc talk feature, we cannot get it to work (just IM)
What version of yahoo messenger are you using with your Vista? Also, maybe tell us where you downloaded it from? Thanks

[patndoris]

Did you remember to do call setup? For Voice Conference check out here.

I have Vista and with the codec installed have no issues, and 2 other people I know are fine as well. Which version of Vista do you have? And what type of computer do you have? Acer has e-security which has a few issues.

-Doris-

[Dermot]

DSPGroup TRUspeech codec is not used on the Pc 2 Pc calls on Yahoo! Messenger though, So it should work just fine on Vista, Sounds more like a ports issue.

Please read the following if this is the case,

How do I configure my firewall to make Yahoo! Messenger PC-to-PC calls work? - Yahoo! Messenger

[tomsbbb]

ok, the pc to pc works on ALL messengers BUT Yahoo and we are not using a proxy.
As far as I can see running the grc ports tests all ports are Stealthed.
Yahoo messenger always worked before with this test being the same!
The firewall does not seem to be the problem as far as we can see!
But just incase how do we open up one of these ports to make sure?>>>

Yahoo! Messenger with Voice will work if any one of these TCP ports are open:

5061
443
80

Thanks

[patndoris]

Both you and your contact need to make sure you've done call setup or it just won't work. I use PC-PC on Vista all the time with no issues at all. Never had a single problem with that part of it. But if you forget to do call setup it won't work.

[tomsbbb]

Call setup works perfectly on both pc's and as I mentioned all other messengers work ok except yahoo pc to pc. Thanks

[patndoris]

I'm using version 8.1.0.421 right now. However, one of my contacts downloaded beta 9.0 at one point and we were both on Vista and still able to talk one on one (although 9.0 did have some odd issues and he downgraded to 8.1 again.)

You can grab a clean copy of YH at Filehippo or on the Yahoo Messenger website.

If you're both on Vista, please make sure you've allowed YH completely through the Windows Firewall or if you're using another firewall either hardware or software you need to be sure the Windows Firewall has been disabled so they don't conflict.

I'd also recommend trying to launch YH by right clicking the icon and choosing "Run as Administrator" and seeing if that helps at all. If you have User Account Control (UAC) running on one or both of the machines it can make things terribly difficult to get things to run properly. Unless you really need it for some reason, I'd disable UAC completely.

I still find 8.1.0.421 is far more stable on Vista and would suggest trying it instead of the beta 9.0 for Vista. Let me know if any of this helps you out. If not, can you give a little more detail as to exactly what does or doesn't happen when you try to call? (ex: does it ring but you can't answer, does it shutdown YH, etc.) it would be helpful. Good luck and we'll wait to hear from you.

[tomsbbb]

PatNDoris:

Sorry it took me so long to get back you, I have some health issues that had to be addressed.
I will be on the pc that is giving us trouble this weekend and hope to get back to you after I check out all you mentioned. Thank You, Tom