Basic functions don't work. Simply a waste of time.

Awful. Can't even get the Dow Jones Industrial Average to add.

very helpful. yahoo rocks

I haven't had as many problems with this as you guys have, but the DJI problem sure is *annoying*. Also, I prefer to have my stock prices cycling in the menu bar where I can pay attention without paying attention. Stock Menulet is just plain working better and is more Mac-like to boot.

Much love,

Buena

I am done waiting for Yahoo to fix this widget. I decided to figure it out on my own. While I was not able to extract the widget contents/resources from the .widget file, and so was unable to fix the widget's "Add Symbol" issue, I was able to find a work around for now. It involves adding data to a Name/Value pair in the registry, but is pretty straight forward.

Standard WARNING: you can wreck your machine if you carelessly edit its registry. There are plenty of how-to's …on the web about how to edit a registry Name/Value pair. Refer to them if you are not comfortable with registry editing, or do not know how.

The registry key at "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Yahoo\WidgetEngine\Widgets\Yahoo! Stock Ticker" holds a Name/Value pair named "userSymbolsPreference".

The Value is of the format "SYM*char*Display name*char*[repeat]". So, for example, after trying to add the symbol "^DJI" via the widget, that Value in the registry is "...*DJI.V*a*DAJIN RESOURCES CORP...".

In order to get this to display the symbol desired, simply update this part of the Value to be something like
"...*^DJI*a*Down Jones Industrial Average..."

Note: without the ellipses (periods), and without the quotes.

Then, close the Stock Ticker widget, and reopen it. Blam! ^DJI.

Granted, Yahoo should have at least tested the new release with the default symbols, but they clearly did not. Maybe next time. Anyway, enjoy.

Matt More