How to remove ads from Yahoo Messenger 8 and 9
One of many reasons why i like Pidgin rather than Yahoo Messenger is pidgin is ads free so it wouldn’t burden my bandwidth. But i just found a method to remove ads from YM. You just have to make a .bat (batch) executable file (make it using Notepad) and insert text below:
@ECHO OFF
TITLE Remove ads from Yahoo Messenger 8
> %TEMP%.\noYMads.reg ECHO REGEDIT4
>>%TEMP%.\noYMads.reg ECHO.
>>%TEMP%.\noYMads.reg ECHO [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Yahoo\Pager\YUrl]
>>%TEMP%.\noYMads.reg ECHO “Messenger Ad”=”*”
>>%TEMP%.\noYMads.reg ECHO “Webcam Upload Ad”=”*”
>>%TEMP%.\noYMads.reg ECHO “Webcam Viewer Ad”=”*”
>>%TEMP%.\noYMads.reg ECHO “Webcam Viewer Ad Big”=”*”
>>%TEMP%.\noYMads.reg ECHO “Webcam Viewer Ad Medium”=”*”
>>%TEMP%.\noYMads.reg ECHO “Change Room Banner”=”*”
>>%TEMP%.\noYMads.reg ECHO “Conf Adurl”=”*”
>>%TEMP%.\noYMads.reg ECHO “Chat Adurl”=”*”
>>%TEMP%.\noYMads.reg ECHO “Y Content”=”*”
REGEDIT /S %TEMP%.\noYMads.reg
DEL %TEMP%.\noYMads.reg
ATTRIB -R “%PROGRAMFILES%\Yahoo!\Messenger\Cache\urls.xml”
ECHO “” >”%PROGRAMFILES%\Yahoo!\Messenger\Cache\urls.xml”
ATTRIB +R “%PROGRAMFILES%\Yahoo!\Messenger\Cache\urls.xml”
Execute the .bat file that you have created by clicking the file twice. Text above is for YM 8, For YM 9, you could follow the tutorial from googlesystem’s blog.
Tags: How to remove yahoo messenger ads, YM 8, YM 9
