Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista with tabbed IM windows is coming soon. But in current version too there are several hidden built in features, which can be turned on with changes to the Windows registry settings.

Recently yahoo messenger blog revealed cool new registry hack to turn on tabs in Yahoo Messenger 8.1. The hack works only on Windows XP.

From the registry hack, WackyB developed WackyB-IMTab-Fix utility. You can run the utilitity in background to turn on Tabbed IM windows in Yahoo Messenger.

WackyB-IMTab-Fix solves all these problems:

• Enables tabbed IM windows when you start WackyB-IMTabFix
• Disables tabbed IM windows when you close
• New IM windows are displayed correctly
• Notification is given in window title when new message received
• Sound alert with new IM from hidden tab
• Changing tabs updates window title

You can download WackyB-IMTab-Fix from here. More info is available here.

[via YM Blog]

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