Yahoo Mail Problem 2009

travis from has written 23 comments

Andy, I have also recently had this problem with Yahoo Mail (loading) when I press the check mail button -- it takes about 10 seconds of doing nothing to get past that point. I am not sure if it is only since I came to Colombia and used Yahoo Mail here but, in any case, the problem only started recently. Until you posted this, I assumed it had something to do with Flash and the fact that I am using a netbook which runs Flash slowly combined with recent changes in the Yahoo mail presentation page.

Travis

Gadget from has written 1,020 comments

I have the HP laptop with Vista, I think I am fully loaded, this is truly a problem.

travis from has written 23 comments

Andy, this problem is not as bad in the last day. I think my Firefox was automatically updated on my machine yesterday, and that is probably the difference. Now, it is like a one half second delay instead of 10 seconds. I checked both my Yahoo accounts, and it was drastically improved in both.

Have you been using Firefox? I think my upgrade to 3.0.13 fixed this (or else Yahoo coincidentally changed something at the same time). I have not tried anything in Internet Explorer.

Travis

Gadget from has written 1,020 comments

I do not like Firefox, however do like Chrome. I just checked and Chrome has finally made autocomplete work in Yahoo mail. I have not made Chrome my default browser and see if it works.

I did learn this, if I closed Explorer, then reopened it stopped for awhile... maybe.
Andy

Yahoo Mail is not working for me either. It started about 3 weeks ago when
yahoo repeatedly asked me to validate my password, then failed to load
email.

Then it stopped doing this until this week when it now takes me to a general
yahoo marketing page, so I click email and it takes me back to the validation
page. This problem is driving me crazy.

Finally on clicking yahoo mail, I then had to wait 10 seconds, for messages to load
up, So I conlude that Yahoo no longer wants email as its primary reason for existance.

Instead Yahoo wants to direct me to services and pages that are of no interest to me.

Yahoo is no longer an email provider.

Yahoo has now become a general marketing organisation, and its email customers
( yes we are customers paying £1 per month )
have sunk to the bottom of its priority list.

Gadget from has written 1,020 comments

My tech say Ajax a type of code that is the same as Gmail.com. So they in a way copied Gmail badly. I on the other hand do not not use gmail because it will not load in slow Internet countries.

Solution

Close all the windows and clean cache with disk cleanup.

This is not a solution, but it may allow you to send when the Internet in your home or Internet cafe is slow bandwidth.

Some simple steps and free software are a weekly habit in "cleaning up" my computer. The first step is to run CCLEANER, this removes all the old cache and duplicate and or deleted files from the hard disc. In addition, it will clean up your REGISTRY as well!

I've used this for 5 years with out any bad side effects and it will help performance.

http://www.ccleaner.com/

The next step is to completely "deep optimization de-frag" from another great program called SMART DEFRAG:

http://www.iobit.com/iobitsmartdefrag.html

Finally, on a monthly basis I use SECUNIA Support to determine the latest versions/patches for items such as Apple Quick Time, Windows programs, JAVA, etc. Older versions will reside on your disc and may be the source of problems. By logging into SECUNIA, you can scan your programs and compare to the latest software updates for your version of windows. I have had as many as 3 separate versions of JAVA that just hogged real estate...

http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/

With these programs and a weekly routine of "housekeeping", your computer should stay pretty clean.

Also, REMEMBER TO USE YOUR ANTI VIRUS TO DO A COMPLETE SCAN!! Do the in-depth anti virus scan at least once a month!!

JD

i cannot access my yahoo mail at alll.. it says there is no account of that sort. help