How to Download Full Standalone Offline Installer of Yahoo! Messenger?

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If you use Yahoo! Messenger, you must be aware of its online installer. Whenever you download Yahoo! Messenger setup from Yahoo! official website, it downloads a small setup file on your computer which requires Internet connection while installation to download the required setup files.

Its fine if you are planning to use it on a single PC but what if you need to install it more than one PC? What if you want to save the installer for future use? You'll always need a working Internet connection to complete the installation whenever you'll run the setup.

Its quite annoying. But don't worry, you have come to the right place. Here I'll tell you how can you download the complete offline installer of Yahoo! Messenger from Yahoo! official website so that you'll not need Internet connection at installation time and you'll be able to run the setup at any other PC without any problem.

Yahoo_Messenger

So here is the step-by-step procedure to download the full Yahoo! Messenger standalone installer:

1. Open Yahoo! official site to download the latest Yahoo! Messenger version:

Latest Version of Yahoo! Messenger

Latest Beta Version of Yahoo! Messenger

2. Click on Download Now button.

3. The file which is downloaded contains URL like following:

http://us.dl1.yimg.com/download.yahoo.com/dl/msgr8/us/msgr8us.exe

Look carefully at file name. Its msgr8us.exe. What you need to do is change the URL to as following:

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

Did you notice any change? You need to append a "y" before the file name. So change msgr8us.exe to ymsgr8us.exe and then download the file again. Now you'll be surprised to see that it'll download the full installer instead of the small online installer.

4. So the trick is to change the file name in URL and add "y" before the file name. That's it.

5. It'll work for any version of Yahoo! Messenger.

BONUS TIP

Here is another method to save the full installer of Yahoo! Messenger for future use. When you run the small online installer and it downloads the required files from Internet, it actually downloads the full setup on your computer. So you can save that full installer at a safe place for future use.

When you run the installer, leave it running and type following in RUN or startmenu search box and press Enter:

%programfiles%\Yahoo!\Installs

It'll open a folder where you'll see a temporary file. Now come back to the installation wizard and wait until it completes the download and shows "Installing Yahoo! Messenger". Now you have to do some quick work. Go to the opened folder and now you'll see a complete EXE file with the name ymsgr8us.exe ( The number 8 in file name shows version no of Yahoo! Messenger). Just copy the file to some other safe place and you have done.

Now you can use the file at any system to install Yahoo! Messenger. I asked you to quickly copy the file because the setup wizard deletes this file just after the installation, so that you can not save the file. Clever Yahoo! huh?

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Paul

VG:
I have been having a problem with Yahoo Mail Plus. I receive an email attachment from someone (say a .DOC file). Yahoo shows the attachment. I click on the attachment and it goes through the process of virus Scan, Open or Save and no matter which I choose it progresses to the Downloading file box but then it never begins the download and just sits there. I am not frozen or anything as I can cancel the download and do anything else but the download never starts. I believe there is a file corrupted. I thought when the XP SP updated, t would fix this but it did not. Is this a Yahoo file on my system that is failing?
Thanks for any suggestions.... - Paul
VG

^^ Most probably its a corrupt file problem. You can try to download it on another machine, it'll clarify whether its a problem in your machine or not.
darthvader

wow. job weel done
Mayur

it is goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooddddddddd

and niceeeeeeeeeeeeeee

8)-
jay

wow! that was really helpful! thank you verey much!
Kulwant

GREAT WORK VISHAL.
IT WAS VERY HELPFUL.
KEEP IT UP.

THANKS
raghav

why yahoo stoped pc to pc free calls?
i can't call any body from version 9
VG

^^ Did you download Indian version? Try to install US version, I think Indian version doesnt come with pc to pc call feature.
Salim Fadhley

I'm not sure this trick works for all versions - It would not give me the UK version.

Why on earth are Yahoo so keen to hide this? It makes no sense!
Binh

That's beautiful tip. Thanks. I just used this method to download Yahoo 9.0 US :) because I need to format my harddisk and I hate install everytime from Internet.