I have been a long time with Yahoo Messenger. Lately i have been asked by a colleague about an easy way to modify her Yahoo Messenger sounds, and today i would like to share the answer with you :).

Many Yahoo Messenger (YM) users doesn’t seem to be aware that they can use any *.wav file as a their preferred YM sound. However, based on previous experience, finding a nice free *.wav file can be challenging.  Therefore i prepared the following list of useful web sites from which you can download a free *.wav sound file that you can later use with YM. So here we go:

• Pacdv - free sound effects
• A1 Free sound effects
• Amazing Sounds
• WAV Sound archive (opens a pop-up - so make sure you have your popup blocker turned on)

So, How to change your YM sounds?

• Find a *.wav file in one of the aforementioned websites.
• Download the file to any folder in your computer.
• Open Yahoo Messenger.
• Click Messenger then Preferences
• Navigate to the Alerts & Sounds tab

• Yahoo Messenger (unlike AIM and other messengers), gives you the possibility to specify a sound for a variety of events (contact comes online, goes offline etc’).
• Highlight the event you’ll like to change the alert sound for
• Click the browse button and navigate to the *.wav file you have downloaded, select the file and click Open.
• Repeat the last two steps for the required events
• Once you are done, click Apply.

Enjoy!

[tags] Yahoo Messenger, Yahho Messenger sounds [/tags]

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