Why can't I get my image to show up on Yahoo! messenger?

Sounds to me like your drivers are obsolete. Go to MSN and enable your Automatic Updates. What happens, is that your settings calls for new Drivers and because your computer's not being upgraded automatically, your old Drivers may have become obsolete.

You can also click on Tools and scroll down to Windows Update, clicking there. Follow your prompts, being sure to enable the Automatic updates.

Either way, when you're finished, restart your computer, when it comes back on you'll get your photos, videos and other audio/visual aspects of your system back online.

These are essential updates and your only alternative is for you to pick and choose which updates should or shouldn't be employed. Are you so computer savvy that you can make these decisions?

I'm not, so I leave it in Windows hands and they've done a superb job these 7-8 years.

If its a new photo have it ready to pick up on your desktop, unless its easy to find in your system

Check your multimedia settings in IE > tools > internet options > advanced

check all boxes in multimedia except "Show image download placeholder"

Open messenger window.

Left click on your avatar picture

Select "display image"

Select "share my picture"

Select "select"

Select a random picture - by clicking on it - (to make sure it changes & your Flashplayer is ok)

Select the picture you want to display, if its not one in the gallery, click "browse" and find the photo you want - double click on it,make sure its in the display panel.

Note sometimes the image will be blacked-out. This will either be a Flashplayer problem or the file you selected the photo from has numbers or / ., etc in the file name - you can try renaming the file.

Click "OK" in top photo panel

Make sure "share my picture" is still selected

Click "OK"

When you open the chat window the display images may be hidden - look for the little "head and shoulder" icon with an arrow pointing to it on the right hand side of the window - click on this to show pictures.

Note. The reference to Flashplayer means IE Flashplayer - even if you use a different browser a lot of the features are relayed via IE

Check your multimedia settings in IE

check all boxes except "Show image download placeholder"

Hello!

I had the same problem, but I fixed it.

The images didn't work on Internet explorer either, but because I don't use IE, I didn't notice that until today. If the pictures don't work in your IE either, then I know how you can fix this.

So, open Internet Explorer, go to Tools -> Internet Options then click on the advanced tab. Scroll down to the multimedia.. thing and then make sure that "show image download placeholders" and "show pictures" are checked.

like this: http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u203/angrymouse...

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