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Yahoo and MSN together?

Dec 29, 2011 1:15PM PST

Is it ok to download Yahoo Messenger when I already have MSN installed or can this cause problems?
Running Windows XP 2002 SP3

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No it wont.
Dec 29, 2011 9:32PM PST

You can download and run both messengers with no problems. I've had both those as well as AIM. But might I suggest, if you're going to be using both messengers frequently, that you look into a messenger called Pidgin: http://www.pidgin.com/

It's an All in One messenger which allows you to use AIM/Yahoo/MSN all together without the need to download them all.

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Sorry, wrong URL
Dec 29, 2011 9:35PM PST

The correct link is: http://www.pidgin.im/

And just for your reference:

Supported chat networks:

AIM
Bonjour
Gadu-Gadu
Google Talk
Groupwise
ICQ
IRC
MSN
MXit
MySpaceIM
SILC
SIMPLE
Sametime
XMPP
Yahoo!
Zephyr

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Yahoo&Msn
Dec 30, 2011 12:59PM PST

Thank you so much for your replies. I will check it out. Happy New Year to you!