I use my yahoo mail account and yahoo messenger extensively. I chat all through the day with friends. One of the things I like most about Yahoo messenger is that it ties in to my mail account and will flash an alert whenever new mail arrives in my inbox.
About a week ago, a coworker convinced me to install AOL instant messager so that we could chat during the day. I installed it, but then YM quit sending mail alerts. I suspect that there is some sort of conflict between the two systems. I unstalled both AIM and YM and then reinstalled YM, but still no mail alerts. My friends list works fine and all of my headlines and stock alerts work fine, but now there is a major disconnect between YM and my mail account.
I tried to scrub the registry, but I couldn’t find any AOL files, and none of the files that I did remove seem to have helped with the problem.
Does anyone know anything about these apps and can you suggest a course of action how to fix it?