Yahoo messenger error : 81003004

Few days ago i experienced an interesting thing. Its about yahoo messenger and internet explorer . I like yahoo messenger and use it a lot and i have completely opposite feelings about internet explorer. I hardly use it and to be true i hate it.But unfortunately i found somewhere they are related to each other very much.Recently i have found another relation while i was trying to find solution of an strange error , yes it was error number 81003004.

People who use Yahoo Messenger , error:81003004 is not that much rare to them , often it pops up whenever there is a connection problem.And usually people try to reconnect to internet or if the connection is good enough then they double check the username and password . And i tried it too but in my case connection was pretty good , i could browse but i could not connect to YM, it was popping up the same message all the time , i thought my password is hacked and i felt so bad cause i have everything .. almost everything in the inbox , so immediately i logged in to the mail box and surprise!! i could enter . So my password was ok but YM, even though an active connection is there , it couldnot log me in . As i told earlier i am not an internet explorer fan so i was using Firefox all these time ,now i thought of browsing using internet explorer cause i know that ie and Yahoo messenger are related very much . And i was surprised again cause i was not able to browse using ie. And the reason is so simple that my ie has the work offline checked under file menu and when i unchecked it i could log in using yahoo messenger .

Then i found more activities between this two. I was looking for more information about the solution i have just found out and i found many nice blogs about it but i could not find even a single one which can give me a clear idea about what was happening and how i had solved it . I was surprised why my YM was not going for my default browser's (firefox) connection instead IE ? Then i come to find another trick to solve the error:81003004 that is using the "Connectoin Preferrence" in the Messenger Menu of Yahoo Messenger itself .By default it "Connect Directly to internet" is activated and in case of error:81003004 it has to be changed to "Connect Via Proxy Server" . Interesting part again while applying this new setting changes , the "work offline" menu setting of the internet explorer is also changed but the default browser (firefox in my case) is not affect at all.

Previously there was a problem that if you have clicked any links in yahoo messenger ,it was always opened with ie , whatever your default browser is . Now that problem is solved but still Yahoo Messenger is , in many cases , very much dependent on IE , If you wanna make a Firefox and YM lover's life hell just check the work offline menu of his IE and see what happens :D.