How do I uninstall Yahoo Messenger?

[criptonite]

I want to uninstall YM but there's no uninstall option on the program list and it's not listed in Add/remove programs.

How do I do it?

Does anyone else get annoyed that these are our own PC's that we've paid good money for but we're not allowed to do what we want with them? Jeez!!!

[rwwoods]

Yahoo Mesenger should be listed in the Add/Delete program list. If for some reason it is not there, I recommend that you try to install the latest version to see if will register in the list. If so, then use Add/Delete to uninstall the program.

If that doesn't work, you will have to delete the complete Mesenger folder found under Program Files/Yahoo. Then run a register cleaner such as CCleaner to clean up the registry entries.

[garydd]

Or search for the rest of the files using the search function and delete them one at a time there and also delete Yahoo registry entries maybe.

[Dermot]

I Built a program a while back to remove Yahoo Messenger from a PC

Built in Turbo Delphi

You can download it HERE

Should fix your issue.

[garydd]

I have a problem. No matter how many times I uninstall and reinstall from scratch, I always have a slight problem when shutting down my computer and the Yahoo program not shutting itself down. Instead, it will always say "YahooMessenger.exe is not responding". or something. This has to be a problem with the file itself. Maybe the YahooMessenger.exe on their website became a little corrupted? This forces me to have to manually exit (remove from RAM memory) the Yahoo program each time before I shut down.

[Ven0m]

Windows Vista? The process likes to stick around on some people. Best to end the task via Task Manager.

[garydd]

No, Win XP. I can just exit Yahoo by right clicking the program in the system tray. Also, one other flaw is sometimes when you click on Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Messenger will freeze for about 30 sec and then go to it and also when I try to open a word doc, sometimes I have to exit Yahoo messenger for MS Word to open. It never did that earlier this year. It can't be a worm since the worm would probably be deleted after a complete uninstall and redownload and also my Norton detects nothing and I do update it quite a bit with new defs. My Hijackthis seems to not be out of the ordinary either when I look for spyware. I see nothing harmful in it since I last deleted some junk program remnants (adware) from it and deleted some unimportant search assistants and a few browser buttons I never use.

[Torrente17]

sounds like corrupted system. Norton doesn't detect much. Try trial version of some other AVP.

[garydd]

I tried Clamwin, which is free and I have read others saying it works good, but you have to be weary if it is freeware. Still haven't detected anything. I was reading about registry cleaner, but heard they will not make your performance much better unless you use something from the Win9x era. WinXP has a more efficient registry or something and isn't really effected from registry bloating. But it seems risky and some of them out there might be a trap. I tried a couple but couldn't fix it since it says you need to buy it after I scanned (so I uninstalled it) and also the free version said something odd when I tried to uninstall in add/remove programs, having a dialog box popping up talking about deleting a file from my Win32 folder or something (registry mechanic 8.0). So I got scared and uninstalled by deleting the folder then removed the entry in add/remove programs. That way, I wouldn't risk the program being malicious and trying to delete critical system files. I better search for and delete registry entries of that bad program and also use a spyware program to make sure it is gone. Also, I heard it can be unsafe (risk it deleting vital entries) and I was better off using the safer page defrag program. I could use check disk later too to hopefully help. If I still don't detect anything, I will try another AVG.

[Ven0m]

Unfortunately NOD32 or Kaspersky work the best, but aren't free. :P