Hi ,my yahoo messenger would not connect a few days ago and i tried different things .I uninstalled it completelly and reinstalled but stil won't work .Pal talk comes in fine and so do my yahoo mail. What is proxy settings .Could I have done something that unknowingly for messenger to disappear .I have not been able to get my cam to work on yahoo either . It works on pal talk so yahoo seems to be the problem . Can you help me ?

You do mean that you can open the progrm but can't connect to the yahoo network?? If you dial up through an isp, I doubt that you will have any detailed proxy settings. Contact your isp though, because if you do require the use of a proxy (although if you hadn't heard of it by now, there's a strong possiblity you don't need it) you will need to know the settings. But otherwise, yahoo has been off and on for the last few weeks! From what I have been using of it. Maybe it will just clear up.