In continuation to the series of articles I’m writing to download offline installers of daily used products, I’m glad to pick up one of most popular Instant Messengers – Yahoo Messenger. Sometime early last year I wrote about downloading offline installers of Yahoo Messenger 8 and very few people are still using that version. The current version of Yahoo Messenger is 9 and its an eye candy with very rich features.
In this post I don’t want to explain what are online, offline installers and their advantages. I believe you are already aware of them and that is why you are here for an offline installer. Here is the link of Yahoo servers from where you can download the offline installer of Yahoo Messenger 9.0
Download Offline Installer of Yahoo Messenger 9.0 (size: ~ 14 MB)
Happy Chatting!!
thanks a lot to the author. i downloaded indian version of yahoo messenger offline installer.
can u help me, iam not able to download yahoo messenger 10 it is showing that incorrect command line parameter, eeven i have tired for yahoo messenger 9 same thing it is showing.. is there any way to download yahoo messenger..
Hi Gopinath,
Can you offer me some assistance? I have tried to download yahoo messenger 10 but for soem reason a programme keeps preventing it from downloading. When i go back to my usual messenger i now get a message saying ‘messenger has not initialzed – please click cancel’ Can you help?
Thanks. It was helpful!
i cant use my yahoo mail it can online but u cant see the msg tool box u can not use it for chatting i even down load yahoo version 8 can u pls help me
there are 2 versions for India one for Hindi, one for English
these links are for version 9.0.0.2162
Hindi version:
http://download.yimg.com/ycs/msg/dl/msgr9/in/ymsgr900_2162_hi.exe
English version:http://download.yimg.com/ycs/msg/dl/msgr9/in/ymsgr900_2162_in.exe
can u give the link to download the offline installer of indian english version plz
Specifically, which version and country are you trying to d/l, Ana?
Also – give us the URL you are trying.
Are you trying to d/l it at work (on the company network) ?
We can help, if we have more information.
– Dave
what would be the username and password to download? i tried a lot but still cant figure out the username and all to download. what exactly i need to enter?
ana,
there is no need of any user name and password to download the installers. I’m surprised that you are asked for an username & password!!
My pleasure Gonipath
I just hope it actually helps someone – lol
I want to mention that I have tried some of the foriegn downloads
after posting the above. A few countries no longer have the version 8’s available, and it seems that older versions are now limited to 8.1.0.421 and the latest 9 version – only a few months ago, I was able to use these links to acquire different versions for different countries
dedndave,
Your knowledge is highly appreciated. The depth of information you have on certain topics is remarkable.
Thank you very much for providing so much useful information to our users.
Current Yahoo! two-letter country codes:
(note: there are Yahoo! country codes for other countries, only the ones with specific versions of Messenger are listed)
ar Argentina
au Australia
br Brazil
ca Canada (English)
cf Canada (French)
cl Chile
cn China
co Columbia
fr France
de Germany
hk Hong Kong
in India (English)
hi India (Hindi)
id Indonesia
it Italy
kr Korea
my Malaysia
mx Mexico
pe Peru
ph Philippines
sg Singapore
es Spain
e1 Spanish (North American, i.e. Cuba, Puerto Rico)
th Thailand
tw Tiawan
uk United Kingdom – Ireland
us United States
ve Venezuela
vn Viet Nam
All of these URL’s start with
http://download yimg com (add the periods)
this URL downloads a specific version 8
/ycs/msg/dl/msgr8/ar/ymsgr810_421_ar.exe
this URL downloads the last version 8
/ycs/msg/dl/msgr8/ar/ymsgr8ar.exe
this URL downloads a specific version 9
/ycs/msg/dl/msgr9/ar/ymsgr900_2128_ar.exe
this URL downloads the latest version 9
/ycs/msg/dl/msgr9/ar/ymsgr9ar.exe
Many versions are available from Yahoo!, and for many countries. You can still acquire version 8 for most country codes, as well as all the older version 9’s. Below, I have listed the examples for Argentina. In each URL, you will find the country code for Argentina (ar) listed twice. To download the file for a different country, just change the “ar” in those two places to the appropriate Yahoo! country code.
Hi Bahooji,
Yahoo! may have certain IP’s blocked from certain files. In some cases, Yahoo! has agreements with foriegn governements that allow them to advertise, so long as they follow specific guidelines. In some countries, for example, Yahoo! is not permitted to provide voice chat capabilities. In such a case, Yahoo! may block IP’s from that country from access to files that provide voice chat.
If you feel that is the case, you may try accessing the file through a proxy server from the US. If you are able to read English well enough, you may want to simply download the desired US version from FileHippo. It is notable that the YahooMessenger.exe file, itself, is the same for all countries (except China). Many of the other files are different, most notably the res_msgr.dll file that contains the menu text (as well as restrictions to menus) and the intl.reg file that contains registry entries for additional Windows User Accounts. With some tinkering, some foriegn users who want to access restricted features have modified their installations by altering these files.
The most restrictive country is China. Yahoo! must follow very strict guidelines to comply with their agreement with the Chinese government. As such, users in China do not really get a version 9, as we know it. Many Chinese users download the Tiawan, Singapore, Hong Kong or Malaysian versions in order to access the newer features.
dedndave,
The download you pointed was hosted on non-yahoo servers. So we have not published information.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
@Gopinath
Hi – any ideas why my text will not post ?
– Dave
Bahooji,
Not sure what problem you are facing. I test the above link now and it’s working perfectly.
Please provide more details on the problem so that we can try to help you.
I tried a lot but could not be able to get proper side but even then i convey thanks which is proper and polite ways of manners