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Trick To Remove Ads From Yahoo Messenger

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Since Yahoo! has released Yahoo Messenger 8, they started displaying ads at the bottom of the window. Yahoo! Messenger, itself is crowded with stuff like Radio, plugins etc. and with ads it looks very ugly. It gets really annoying when they display flashy animated ads.

In this post, I’ll tell you how to remove those ads from the bottom of Yahoo! Messenger 8 and 9 Beta.

NOTE: After you remove the ads, you won’t be able to use the Chat Room feature. So, don’t try this trick if you use that feature.

How to remove ads in Yahoo! Messenger 8

1. Make sure your Yahoo! Messenger is closed.

2. Download and save this batch (.bat) file anywhere in your PC and execute it.

Done! :P Yeah, really… It’s done!

What actually happened

The batch file you downloaded changes the following registry entries from HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ Yahoo\pager\YUrl

  • Messenger Ad
  • Webcam Upload Ad
  • Webcam Viewer Ad
  • Webcam Viewer Ad Big
  • Webcam Viewer Ad Medium
  • Change Room Banner
  • Conf Adurl
  • Chat Adurl

The data value of the above entries is changed to an asterisk (*).

How to remove ads in Yahoo! Messenger 9 Beta

The above procedure doesn’t work for the version 9 Beta. So I found an alternate method to remove the ads. But remember, by trying this you are breaking Yahoo! Messenger’s terms of service.

1. Exit Yahoo! Messenger.

2. Backup C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\YahooMessenger.exe by creating a new copy.

3. Download a hex editor (recommended: HxD)

4. Open C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\YahooMessenger.exe in the hex editor.

5. Go to the offset 295928 (in HxD: Search/GoTo)

6. Look at the right column and replace y from “y.m.s.g.r.a.d.s” with p

ymsgr-hex-editor

7. Save the file and close your hex editor.

Done! lol

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Author: Haris Nadeem
He is the founder of Sizzled Core and a Pakistani blogger who loves gadgets and exploring out the web!

18 Comments

  1. MyAvatars 0.2

    That certainly is useful.. I’ve grown tired of seeing those ads as well.

  2. MyAvatars 0.2

    @Vijay: I’m glad that you liked it :)

  3. MyAvatars 0.2

    Nice tips Haris, Never knew about it :)

  4. MyAvatars 0.2

    Nice tip buddy. Good to see you back in the blogosphere.

  5. MyAvatars 0.2

    Nice tip, but I use GTalk, Skype and Mirinda for my needs.

  6. MyAvatars 0.2

    Mary

    i use Y!M 9 but it didn’t work that trick :(

  7. MyAvatars 0.2

    I have built a patch for all 9.0 beta builds

    you can get it below..

    http://shadow-corp.net

    :)

  8. MyAvatars 0.2

    Ravi

    Nice trick…
    How to make yahoo messenger look so simple..
    i mean how to remove all other useless things..

  9. MyAvatars 0.2

    johnny

    New offset for build 1389 seems to be 2D8C10

  10. MyAvatars 0.2

    terima kasih thank’s

  11. MyAvatars 0.2

    Yahoo User

    BAT file did not work.
    It is full of artifacts.

  12. MyAvatars 0.2

    Joshua

    New offset for build 1912 is 2E7DC0

    Changing that, however, does not seem to remove the ads.

  13. MyAvatars 0.2

    dedndave

    I wrote a patch program for versions 9.0.0.2018 and 9.0.0.2034…
    It only removes the main window ads
    http://www.4shared.com/file/72.....Patch.html

    This is the one for 8.1.0.421 - this patch also fixes a few problems..
    http://www.4shared.com/file/73.....10421.html

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