thanx for ur reply cormac. before i posted message i already tried freakytiki4u's suggestion few times but it didnt work.(sorry i didnt mention it in my previous post) i also tried downloading yahooDLL, didnt work either. from the page u posted i tried to download the VB file from Microsoft ->> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q180071 and installed YMsngr but i got that same 2 errors again. 'hope u still have other good suggestions that i can try, or anybody pls. ty again.