Change the Title of Yahoo Messenger

Submitted by Srikanth on Sunday, 10 August 200813 Comments

Here’s how you change the title text that appears at the top of the Messenger window. By default, this is “Yahoo! Messenger”, followed by your status. Simply edit the ymsgr.ini file, which you will find in the same folder as the Messenger program, in your Program Files folder. Locate the file and open it in Notepad. Then, at the end, add the following:

[APP TITLE]
caption=YOUR TEXT

Here, “YOUR TEXT” is whatever you want in the title bar. Save the file and close Messenger. When you restart it you will see your text in the title bar.

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13 Comments »

MumuMare said:

Nice! I have 2 questions on my agenda:

1) Are there any other tags I can add?

2) I want to make a joke on a friend of mine and send him a .mp3 file in which I will attach a self-installing party that will copy the ymsgr.ini by itself at the right address on the computer (search >> on found >> replace + rename old file in ymsgr.ini.bak). And change all kind of stuff in his Yahoo client

The problem is that I have to program that (I know C, C++, C# and Delphi), but I don’t know how to attach it to an .mp3 (music file or image file, or any other common ‘user-sharing stuff’) and selfinstal without a user interface

Can you help me with this one? If so, we’ll exchange mails and play with programing. What do you say?

- 17 September 2008 at 12:53 am

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- 2 January 2009 at 12:56 am

mani said:

sorry but i could not find the ymsgr.ini file in d yahoo msngr folder

- 17 January 2009 at 7:41 pm

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- 12 February 2009 at 8:33 pm

mohammad ishaq said:

sorry but i could not find the ymsgr.ini file in d yahoo msngr folder

- 24 March 2009 at 4:11 pm

mohammad ishaq said:

i also do’t know how to hack ip address

- 24 March 2009 at 4:12 pm

pareshan hacker said:

This trick worked only on older yahoo! messengers and not on recent versions bcoz they don’t have any file in the messenger folder named ymsgr.ini however this file used to appear in older versions.

- 24 March 2009 at 11:57 pm

omoyapayaskki said: