I receive the following error when trying to open any game from yahoo.

[steven]

Internet Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to
close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

 

[Jon Kennedy]

See this site for possible help - lots of causes for this error:
http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/answers_10.htm#close

 

[Charlie Tame]

Steven,

Yahoo games are often written in Java I think (Please note this is not
JavaScript but the programming language Java) and if you don't find a
solution on the pages mentioned you may want to try here...
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Replace Missing Java Virtual Machine

The Microsoft Version
http://n6hb.org/s-a/JAVA-ts.htm#ie_jvm
The Sun Microsystems version
http://www.java.com/en/download/windows_automatic.jsp
A utility to switch between them (if you install both)
http://pages.istar.ca/~neutron/SelectIEJVM/


Charlie