I cant see what is being typed to me on messenger?

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This is actually an Internet Explorer Scripting problem. These steps to register script dlls should help you fix it.
1. Exit Yahoo Messenger by right clicking the Yahoo! icon by your clock and choosing exit.
2. Go to your Start Menu and click Run to open the run box (XP).
You are going to copy and past each of the dlls below one at a time into the Run box, after the first one click OK. Then start over with the 2nd dll. Only do one at a time.
regsvr32 jscript.dll
regsvr32 vbscript.dll

If you have Windows Vista the Run and Search are the same so just copy and paste each dll into that box one at a time. Vista users may need to temporarily disable the User Account Control (UAC). You can easily turn it back on. On the Control Panel (Category View) choose User Accounts and Family Safety, next choose User Accounts, and then click Turn User Account Control on or off.
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If the above does not fix your problem and you are using Windows XP, you can update your Windows Script to version 5.7. Exit all browser windows and chat programs including Yahoo Messenger before installing. Here is link from Microsoft to update that:
http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/detai…

This version of Window Script is already included with Vista so you would not do this step. There is also a Windows Script 5.7 released for Windows 2000 and you can find that here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/detai…

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Source for the fix: post #28 on this link:
http://www.bigblueball.com/forums/yahoo-…