Hide avatar display photo from friends in Yahoo Messenger

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

Yahoo messenger allows you to add and display your personal photo as avatar image. We have already seen how to add picture as avatar photo in Yahoo Messenger. Incase after addition, you want to hide your avatar image from Yahoo messenger friends / buddies – following is simple procedure.

Hide avatar images in Yahoo Messenger

1. Open Yahoo Messenger and login.

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2. Click menu option Messenger > My Display Image (or press shortcut key Ctrl+Shift+F8)

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3. Click & highlight option “Dont share a display image”.

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4. Click on OK button. This will hide the avatar image and it will show blank in avatar photo area in Yahoo messenger window.

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