Comments on: How to reduce memory usage of Yahoo Messenger

By: Hex

Hex — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 22:34:10 +0000

Uhm, there’s not much you can do for a memory hog like Yahoo; other than try getting YaZak. YaZak is great, and it’s light. I don’t have the link for it, but I’m sure you could google it. Yahoo doesn’t seem to be a problem, and I’m running 356MB of RAM.

By: Gimsys

Gimsys — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 12:54:24 +0000

try disabling livewords

By: tqm_z

tqm_z — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 12:36:18 +0000

I need to run YM for the whole day on 256MB RAM PC,
but running YM along with heavy memory application
like Adobe Photoshop will make the whole system screw up!

Its time for alternative messenger client
I switch to EasyMessage … YM / MSN / ICQ alternative all in one pack.

EasyMessage only consume 4MB or RAM.

By: Akash

Akash — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 18:01:30 +0000

Try GAIM now…it’s very light, and has all Yahoo smileys, including hidden ones
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/

By: Bong

Bong — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:29:18 +0000

I use trillian pro always. 3 yrs ago, i had tried Gaim but it was buggy at that time. So i gave up gaim and never tried it again. However, I don’t like trillian much. The smileys suck! Still i am left with no option as YM is such a memory hogger. Use YM only when some frenz ask me to play pool.

By: Jae

Jae — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:46:36 +0000

I also am disheartened by Yahoo! — where colleagues and clients are all on.

I tried Meebo — a web-based solution and I like that it uses standard browser (FF/IE, etc.) and takes up way less memory.

If you don’t like Trillian, or work at a place where Yahoo! isn’t allowed, try this:

http://www.meebo.com/

Jae

By: DavidG

DavidG — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 12:10:22 +0000

What ii’d like to know is how to reduce the CPU usage. there is very clearly a serious bug in this program. No way should Messenger be using 25-90% of my CPU on an AMD300o with 2GB of ram. It bogs the sysmem down and makes the computer unusable. I had to go back to version 7

By: John T P

John T P — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 12:47:34 +0000

Try Trillian if you are really concerned about Memory usage by Yahoo Messenger.

By: tools

tools — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 11:39:52 +0000

my yahoo runs on 125,000k on average… thats a whole lot more than anyones mentioned here… so what does that mean for me ?.. it also makes my cpu usage 100%… slows it down to nothing… any more suggestions for me because i tried all that was mentioned with no luck whatsoever..

By: dead

dead — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 23:23:51 +0000

removing all the Content Tabs helps a little bit too,
but still the memory usage is huge for such a simple program… (latest version of yahoo messenger uses minimum 45,000 K!!! )

for me the best solution was to switch to Trillian, works better than the similar multi IM programs and uses 1,000 K – 5,000 K memory.