How To Remove Ads In Yahoo Messenger
5 Oct, 2008
Computing Tips & Tricks
The most annoying thing in Yahoo Messenger is the animated ad at the bottom of the main window. This extra commercialized piece is over "eye-catchy" and doesn’t look cool at all.
If you don’t like it either. here’s some steps to get rid of the ads.
- Close Yahoo Messenger.
- Download this .bat file (tested and no virus was found).
- Execute it.
The downloaded .bat file edits most registry data values which related to Yahoo Messenger. It replaces the ads data with dummy asterisk.
This method works on Yahoo Messenger 8.0 or 9.0. 
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Wrote on October 6, 2008 @ 9:04 pm
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MaJa said,
Wrote on November 6, 2008 @ 5:39 pm
thx mate for the tuts.
now my ym has bigger looks.. =)
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ericanwar said,
Wrote on November 10, 2008 @ 9:24 pm
does it work on the newest YM ver. 9.0.0.2034 ??
Kay said,
Wrote on November 10, 2008 @ 10:02 pm
@ericanwar, I am not so sure about it.
ericanwar said,
Wrote on November 14, 2008 @ 9:49 pm
I tried on YM ver. 9.0.0.2018 and YM ver. 9.0.0.2034 , the result is: Does not work!
But it still works on YM ver. 9.0.0.2012.
But i think YM ver. 9.0.0.2012 is a suck! The connection is unstable
kay said,
Wrote on November 15, 2008 @ 10:06 pm
@ericanwar: Great info. Thanks!
dedndave said,
Wrote on November 29, 2008 @ 9:34 pm
Removing the ads from Y! Messenger is a little different from version to version. The first version to have ads in the main window was 7.5.0.647. In that version, removing the ads was very simple. As time goes on, Yahoo! has made it more and more difficult to remove the ads. The hardest ones to remove are the latest versions, 9.0.0.2018 and 9.0.0.2034. I have written a patch for those versions that ONLY removes the ads from the main window (link below). Personally, I prefer version 8.1.0.421. With that version, all the ads can be removed and the program is quite stable.
Ad removal patch for ym vers 9.0.0.2018 and 9.0.0.2034
http://www.4shared.com/file/72236491/426f3d41/YM_Patch.html
angelwolf71885 said,
Wrote on December 1, 2008 @ 5:42 pm
@dedndave
hey tryed your patch love it caint wait till you update your patch
dedndave said,
Wrote on December 1, 2008 @ 8:33 pm
for version 8.1.0.421…
this patch fixes some other problems, as well
http://www.4shared.com/file/73817710/3a672551/YP810421.html
- dedndave