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Take offs ads from Yahoo Messenger 8

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YahoomeseegerNice trick to take the annoying ads on the bottom yahoo messenger 8 application ( Updates Post ). Here is the trick

1. Close Yahoo Messenger.

2. [For Yahoo Messenger 8.0.0.683 or lower]
Save this file (.bat text file) and execute it.

[For Yahoo Messenger 8.0.0.701]
Save this file and execute it. You won’t be able to enter the chat rooms, so if you use this feature, don’t run the patch or downgrade Messenger and run the file from the previous section. To prevent the automatic update, rename yupdater.exe from C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger to yupdater.exe.bak.

After install the patch files, you will see the patch files has modify the register like below:-Yahoo Messenger ads registery

If you install new versions of Yahoo Messenger, you’ll have to repeat the steps below, as Yahoo setup rewrites the registry entries.

Open Run - >Regedit, navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ Yahoo\pager\YUrl and create a new string key named Messenger Ad that has the value * (an asterisk).

For Yahoo Messenger 8 b628:

1. Find the file C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\Cache\urls.xml
2. Clear its content and save it (as an empty file).
3. Make the file (urls.xml) Read Only.
4. Download and run the patch from http://kalphegor.googlepages.com/ym8patch.zip

For Yahoo Messenger 8 Beta b508:

Download and run the patch from http://kalphegor.googlepages.com/ym8patch.zip

My Note

Playing windows registry and modify software patch is a dangerous way on windows but if you are a computer geeks, perhaps this trick is worth for trying. The new versions will getting harder to remove the ads and even impossible.

Thks for Gigetek for updating me about the remove yahoo smessenger ads on version 8

Tue, Jul 11, 2006

Tips, Yahoo

8 Comments For This Post

  1. nico Says:
    July 28th, 2006 at 6:47 pm

    This patch doesn’t work anymore with Y! messenger 8.0.0.682.

  2. Zune Says:
    July 31st, 2006 at 12:33 am

    cool trick there

  3. Tejo Says:
    August 4th, 2006 at 11:43 pm

    edit the registry

    [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”=”*”

    also empty the file
    %PROGRAMFILES%\Yahoo!\Messenger\Cache\urls.xml
    its readonly so change tht attributes before editing

  4. ovi Says:
    August 16th, 2006 at 9:04 pm

    teho, not working

  5. km Says:
    August 16th, 2006 at 11:49 pm

    @ovi

    Which version of Yahoo messenger that you using ?

  6. GigiTek Says:
    August 21st, 2006 at 9:08 pm

    works with the latest version available on 21.aug http://daydream.wordpress.com/2006/06/22/yahoo-messenger-8-without-ads/

  7. km Says:
    August 21st, 2006 at 11:12 pm

    @Gigitek

    Thks for the information

  8. Bonnie Says:
    August 24th, 2007 at 2:01 am

    Those reg-values don’t even exist here.
    Should I create them… and then set them to “*”?

    I can’t get any of these “ad blockers” to work with
    v8.1.0.401

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  1. [Beta v8] Yahoo! Messenger with Voice - “get the latest and greatest” at UnlimitedInfinity Says:
    September 3rd, 2006 at 10:23 pm

    [...] i’m not sure since which version, but Yahoo has the ablity to skin itself…unlike MSN back then, we had to use external programs? (well now Live can do that too). when you first startup yahoo messenger, it’s have a load of stuff you might not want. right now YIM has got this “plugin” thing that’s an awesome internal concept. as with Live or MSN, we had to install an extra albeit unofficial extension… so here’s a couple of tips? Step one: download Yahoo! Messenger with Voice (BETA) here. Step two: at the top of the yahoo messenger window, goto: Messenger > Change skin… Step three: download this patch to remove the ads on the bottom of the Yahoo messenger main window… dugg! [...]

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