Profile Viewing Problems

AOL USERS

AOL 8.0/9.0 appears to be causing you problems with profiles and links, here is the fix (if you want to use Internet Explorer or Netscape, ignore this post, and move to the appropriate method).

AOL 8.0 and before

(1) Goto the AOL keyword "preferences" ie, type preferences in the address box in AOL.
(2) Select "association" in the next window.
(3) Select yes, to allow it to associate.
(4) Restart Yahoo! Messenger, it should be fixed!

AOL 9.0

(1) Click "Settings" at the top of the screen.
(2) Click the "A-Z" Tab.
(3) Click "Aol As Default"
(4) Select "OK", to allow it to associate.
(5) Try a profile, it should be fixed, restart Yahoo! Messenger may be necessary!
Like ALL the other Yahoo! profile fix methods, You saw the AOL 9.0 profile fix here First. With thanks to Lyrricist.

If this didn't fix it, that's ok, 20% of the time it doesn't, just do Method 1 instead below:

Method 1 - All Users - This will reset any custom settings to the programs tab.

(1) Goto start>>settings>>control panel>>Internet Settings. Select "reset web settings"
(2) In the confirmation box, Uncheck "Also Reset My Homepage", and select ok.
(3) Start a new Internet Explorer session, if prompted to make default, select yes or ok.
            AOL: Skip step (3)
(4) Restart Yahoo! Messenger, it should be fixed.
If you previously had customised which e-mail client or other program you use, you may have to select these from the boxes at the top of the programs tab. This applies mostly to AOL users who need to set e-mail client as AOL.

Method 2 - Internet Explorer users

1) If you use Internet Explorer, goto tools>>internet options>>programs and at the bottom, place a check by "Internet Explorer should check to see whether it is the default browser".
2) Open a new internet explorer window in the normal way, if it asks if you want to make internet explorer the default, select "yes".
3) Restart Yahoo! Messenger, try and view profiles, if it works, stop here!

Method 2 - Netscape users

1) If you use Netscape, please follow the instructions on this page carefully: http://wp.netscape.com/browsers/using/ieusers/start/default.html
2) Open a new Netscape window in the normal way, if it asks if you want to make netscape the default, select "yes".
3) Restart Yahoo! Messenger, try and view profiles, if it works, stop here!

Method 3 - Advanced users.

(1) The file association is for URL:HyperText Transfer Protocol
(2) Go to , Start-Settings-Folder Options
(3) Go to , File Types
(4) Find "URL:HyperText Transfer Protocol" in the list, and select it.
(5) Select edit.

In the box at the bottom, you should see "open". If you don't:

(1) Click new...
(2) The action is "open"
(3) The program is your browser. Click browser and look for it, they will be in the program files. if it's internet explorer, it will be "C:\PROGRA~1\INTERN~1\iexplore.exe" -nohome
(4) Check "use dde"
(5) DDE message is "%1",,-1,0,,,,
(6) Application is "IExplore" - for internet explorer
(7) next box is blank, last box is "WWW_OpenURL"

Now click OK apply all changes, and reboot.

If you do see "open" click "edit..." and ensure all the boxes match the data above from step (3) onwards.

Why does this work?

This part of the registry deals with the API calls a programmer makes to launch a link, instead of launching a browser with a paramater, they send a command to launch a URL, windows then deals with this using the specific information above.

Adult Profiles

Compiled based on information from BigBlueBall/TechGuy forums
To view an adult profile you must be,
(1) An Adult - Over 18
(2) Not in the UK
The Yahoo! UK & Ireland stopped access to User rooms, Adult rooms and Adult profiles to its UK accounts. If you have a UK Yahoo! account, adult profiles will not work. If you have a USA Messenger with a UK Yahoo! account you will be able to access User rooms and adult rooms.
Possible Fix

Go to chat.yahoo.com, sign in, and select "Account Info" in the upper right.
Look for "Member Information" and click the "Edit" button to the right of it.
Now under "General Preferences" you will see the current language, click it, then update your language to another English version, NOT uk or us.

URL Not Found On Server

This error appears to lie in a cached error, possibly Yahoo! was in a state of error, and something has been cached by proxies.
For Shaw Cable follow Fix1. For NTL follow the NTL fix. For NetZero follow the NetZero Hispeed fix.

Fix1:
If you use DSL/Cable: Start, Settings, Control Panel, Internet Options. Select "connections". Then click "Lan Settings...". In that box, uncheck "automatically detect lan settings". This option automatically sets up a proxy on your connect if your ISP has it set up like this, unchecking this will stop a proxy being used.

Fix2:
If the above fails, it's possible your ISP, especially smallers ISPs, route all traffic through a proxy as default, even when you haven't selected one. Press the "refresh" button in your browsers when you get the error, this should send a header telling servers not to receive from a cache.

Fix3:
If all those fails, use tty's lookup page: Here
If that fails, use this Proxy Profile Viewer produced by myself: Here

Fix4:
If your ISP proxy cache is outdated, it might have the wrong IP. You can fix this by adding it to your hosts file.
Go to start, run, and type "notepad c:\windows\hosts". You might already have entries. Scroll right to the bottom, add a new line.
Enter 66.218.75.148 then a tab, then profiles.yahoo.com

NTL
It would appear all NTL traffic goes through a proxy server, wether its enabled or not.
The solution is to set a good proxy server manually, as follows:
Start, Settings, Control Panel. Internet Options.
On the connections tab, select "Lan Settings...". If checked, uncheck the top box "Automatically Detect Settings".
Check "use a proxy server...", and put in 80.1.224.4 as the address, and 8080 as the port.
Click "OK". Restart IE, profile viewing should be possible, to clear local cache, pressing refresh may be required on the error page.
If it fails: Then that proxy server is bad. Here is a big list. Do the instructions as above, replacing the address with one off the list.

NetZero Hispeed
If you use NetZero Hispeed or another form of dial-up acceleration, please disable it when you wish to view profiles, as the cache at the server's end has incorrect data for Yahoo! Profiles.

Optus
We have told Optus about the problem, they did not respond.
Use one of these URLs, replaceing Yahoo!ID with the persons ID:
http://p7.pf.scd.yahoo.com/Yahoo!ID OR
http://ca.profiles.yahoo.com/Yahoo!ID.
OR use this.