Your link now looks like ymsgr9us.exe For Yahoo messenger 9 Final & Region Specific Setup Link for downloading that online installer is and if you add y in the filename and then paste it in the address bar, it is the direct download link for the full setup of messenger. Your link now looks like ymsgr8us.exe For Yahoo messenger 9 Beta Right Click on click here to copy the link and this is your URL for online installer. When you click Download Yahoo Messenger,download starts and you have this in the page: The trick is to add y before the filename of the online installer in the url and you can directly download the full messenger setup. While having a chat discussion with Nspeaks (a guy who always have a answer of my queries), he told me about this little trick that allows me to download the messenger directly without the need of downloading that crappy online installer. When you download it, you actually download a Online installer which installs the Yahoo messenger online.

If you have downloaded yahoo messenger, you must be aware of the fact that you can’t download Yahoo messenger directly.

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