Yahoo Messenger Archive Decoder

There are plenty of Yahoo Messenger users who want to read their conversations without launching the instant messaging app per se, and all of them need a tool like Yahoo Messenger Archive Decoder.

As you can find out just by reading its self-explanatory name, Yahoo Messenger Archive Decoder is a Windows freebie developed with a single goal in mind: let users read Yahoo Messenger archives without having to input their usernames and passwords.

That's why the program is offering a multi-panel GUI comprising only the essential options and nothing more. You can quickly browse to the archive files, read the logs and even save the content to disk.

Yahoo Messenger Archive Decoder automatically detects the username and the remote username, with three different options in this regard: scan the file paths, the file name or the registry.

As for file saving, Yahoo Messenger Archive Decoder can export the selected content to RTF or plain text.

The conversation is displayed in the same main window and can be customized by displaying dates, hours and usernames.

There's no help file available in the package, but that's not at all a problem given the fact that everything is pretty intuitive, so rookies should encounter no problems in figuring out the purpose of each feature.

Yahoo Messenger Archive Decoder isn't the kind of tool that manages to impress, but it does its job pretty well. It offers an interesting feature package to appeal to all user categories and relies on a plain and simple GUI for one-click access to the available utilities.