Yahoo! Messenger Tutorials

Personalizing Yahoo! Messenger

Specifying Message Preferences Changing the Skin Controlling Alerts and Sounds

Changing the Skin

A skin in Yahoo! Messenger provides the border and content color of all your Messenger windows. Similar to changing the "Appearance" of all your PC windows through the PC’s Settings option, changing the skin changes the look of Messenger windows.

The Yahoo! Messenger application includes three skins:

Classic Classic skin
Indigo Indigo skin
Maverick Blue Maverick Blue skin

Use the Change Skin window to change the skin as often as you like.

The Change Skin window

Notes:

Changing the skin to Indigo or Maverick Blue does not change the color of your non-Yahoo! Messenger windows. Conversely, when you change the appearance of non-Yahoo! Messenger windows, your Messenger windows remain unchanged.

When you change the skin to Classic, the Messenger windows take on whatever theme you select for the system.

 

Here’s How

  1. In your Messenger window, select Change Skin from the Messenger menu.

    The Change Skin window opens.

  2. In the Change Skin window, select a skin from the Skin pull-down list, then click the OK button.

    Select a skin from the Skin pull-down list.

    All of your Yahoo! Messenger windows update with the new skin.

 

What’s Next

You can also control the alerts and sounds that occur while you’re using Yahoo! Messenger.

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Words to Know

  • Skin: a selection that controls the overall look of the Messenger windows.