Yahoo Status Message - How to Delete

When we keep changing our status messages in yahoo messenger (version 9), it goes on and on and becomes a long drop-down list. It’s not easy clearing the list. So how do we do that?

This is how we can solve that, on a windows based system. We are going to play with windows registry so, be DOUBLE WARNED. Do not mess up anything, else the system may not even boot. But done carefully, there is nothing to worry.

Sign-out from yahoo messenger

Start-Run (or press windows key + R key).

Type ‘regedit’ (without quotes) and press Enter

Go to - HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Yahoo\pager\profiles

We can see the list of all the usernames that had been used to sign-in; select /expand yours

(Single) click on ‘Custom Msgs’

On the right hand side, we can see the list of current messages. There will be two entries each for every message (1_DND & 1_W, 2_DND & 2_W and so on). To delete a message, just delete the corresponding pair (look for the first digit) of entries (by selecting it and pressing Del button, and confirm it)

Exit from registry editor. Done