Google talk skin for yahoo messenger

We all love Gtalk because of its simple and clean looks, though it does not have all those crappy features that other IM clients feel proud upon. You must have got tired of default yahoo messenger skin, yes me too got tired. Now you can make your messenger look like gtalk by installing yahoo messenger version of gtalk theme. This skin does not any add any new features in your messenger but it does make it look clean and beautiful.

* Download this skin from Here.(http://www.luktechnology.ro/stuff/gtalk_skin.zip)
* View a screenshot (http://www.bigblueball.com/forums/attachments/yahoo-skins-personalization/433d1128551171-google-talk-skin-gtalk.jpg)

Installation Instructions:

1. Extract everything from the arhive to your Desktop.
2. Move extracted folder to C:\Program
Files\Yahoo!\Shared\Graphics ( this is the default installation folder)

Activating the skin:

1. open main Yahoo! Messenger window.
2. Click Messenger > Change Skin…
3. Select Google Talk from the dropdown menu.
4. Click OK and you are done.

Activation of the skin may depend upon the version of yahoo messenger you are using. I am using version 7 and it is working perfectly.

Run Multiple Instances of Yahoo Messenger

You can run multiple yahoo messenger with different ids at the same time. Just follow the steps.

Download this file - A plug-in By Sahil

The plugin will be unzipped in your c:/programfiles/yahoo/messenger/plugins/

Please unzip in different directory if your yahoo messenger’s installation directory is different, but it works in most of the cases.

* Click start then run
* Write regedit, press enter
* Goto “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Yahoo\Pager\Test”
* Create a DWORD registry value named “Plural” by right clicking the right hand side window.
* Double click the new DWORD entry and set the value to 1

Now you remain online with two or more different yahoo ids at the same time.

How to use this plugin ?

This is a very useful plugin. You can install it by clicking
“action” and then “load test plugin” in your yahoo messenger’s main window.

With this plugin you can easily check whether someone is invisible to you or not.

Yahoo messenger link

Here is the shortcut for directly downloading the latest messenger.

http://us.dl1.yimg.com/download.yahoo.com/dl/msgr8/in/ymsgr8us.exe

In the above mentioned link, enter the country that you need and download it easily.

This download is the complete download (9.99 MB for 8.1.0.416) and there is no need to connect to internet and download the other stuffs for installing the messenger.

Example:

http://us.dl1.yimg.com/download.yahoo.com/dl/msgr8/in/ymsgr8in.exe

Change the letters in blue and replace with your country code. If it's United States - us, India - in, United Kingdom - uk, etc