Remove Ads from Windows Live Messenger with A-Patch and Customize Messenger Options and Visualisation
Windows Live Messenger is an major upgrade and replacement to MSN Messenger series of popular IM client from Microsoft. Thus previously Windows Live Messenger also called MSN Messenger 8 and the new version features a lot of new features and more intuitive interface. However, the advertisements shown on the main window and the chat windows (message windows) of Windows Live Messenger is pretty annoying. There are few ways to remove, disable and get rid of the ads on Windows Live Messenger so that the messenger is ads free.
The easiest way is to download A-Patch, which is actually an utility to customize visual and functionality aspects of Windows Live Messenger or MSN Messenger. There are more than 70 options and configurations currently available and A-Patch now supports MSN Messenger and Windows Live Messenger version 8.0.0787 & 8.0.0792 in A-Patch 1.3.0 RC1 (build 37). Build 54 of A-Patch 1.3.0 RC1 increases support to Windows Live Messenger 8.0.0787, 8.0.0792, 8.0.0812, 8.1.0064, 8.1.0066, 8.1.0068, 8.1.0106, 8.1.0168 & 8.1.0178.
Direct download link: A-Patch 1.3.0 RC1 (build 54a) for Windows Live Messenger.
To disable and remove Windows Live Messenger ads, just extract and execute the A-Patch executable.
- Exit from Windows Live Messenger.
- If you’re first time running A-Patch, you will be prompted Advance Options screen. Just click OK to select the default.
- On the Welcome window (page 2), select “Patch Messenger” under “Choose an Option”, and make sure the path to the Windows Live Messenger is correct (default should be C:\Program Files\MSN Messenger which is shown automatically, unless you change your installation directory, otherwise leave it as it is.).
- Click Next.
- Click Next again.
- On the Contact List window (page 5), select the “Remove Advertisement” option (4th or 5th option, depending on how you count).
- Click Next.
- Click Next again.
- Click another Next again.
- In the Instant Messege window, select the “Remove Advertisement” option (last row).
- Click Next.
- Click Next again.
- Click another Next again.
- Now, click on Apply to remove the ads on Windows Live Messenger.
- You will be prompted to make sure you’re running the patch on a clean unmodified installation of MSN Messenger, and ensure that Windows Live Messenger has closed. Click on OK to continue.
- Patching done. Select “Launch MSN Messenger” and click Exit to launch the patched Windows Live Messenger without ads including text link ads.
A-Patch is a full featured customisation tools for MSN Messenger and Windows Live Messenger with the ability to modify the following options in version 1.3.0 RC1 (build 37):
[Contact List] – 30
Remove Windows Live Logo
Remove “Messenger” Title
Remove Display Picture Container
Remove Personal Message Bar
Remove E-mail Button
Remove Sharing Folders Button
Remove My Space Button
Remove Windows Live Today Button
Remove Make a Phone Call Button
Remove Yellow Information Bar
Change Display Picture Link
Remove Contacts Personal Message
Remove Toast Display Picture
Remove Gleam Notification
Remove Advertisement
Add Always On Top Button
Remove Search Bar
Remove Display Picture in Sign-In Window
Remove Bottom Links in Sign-In Window
Remove Windows Live ID Branding
Disable MSN Spaces Contact Card Integration
Remove Color Button
Disable Song Links
Remove Emoticons from Nicknames
Remove Contact Manager Bar
– Move Contact Manager Bar to the Bottom
– Remove Extra Padding from the Contact Manager Bar
– Remove “Add a Contact” Button from the Contact Manager Bar
– Remove “Manage your Contacts” Button from the Contact Manager Bar
– Remove Contact Search Field from the Contact Manager Bar
[Instant Message] – 34
Remove Windows Live Logo
Remove Invite Button
Remove Send Files Button
Remove Web Cam Button
Remove Call Button
Remove Activities Button
Remove Games Button
Remove Block Button
Remove Color Button
Remove Search Button
Remove My Display Picture Container
Remove Font Button
Remove Emoticons Button
Remove Voice Clip Button
Remove Backgrounds Button
Remove Winks Button
Remove Packs Button
Remove Nudge Button
Remove What’s Hot Section
Remove Formatting Toolbar Separator
Change Ink Tabs to Text
Remove Advertisement
Remove Contact’s Personal Messange and E-mail (To: Bar)
Remove Web Cam Icon from Avatar/DP Containers
Remove Nudge Delay
Disable Nudge Shake
Remove Send Button
Add Send Button to Handwriting Tab
Remove Status Information Bar Remove “Get a Webcam” Link Add Always On Top Button
Remove User Is Writing Message
Remove Convert Tab
Remove “says” Text
[Miscellaneous] – 6
Polygamy (Multi-MSN)
Show Idle Status
Shorten Status Info in Info Bar
Install WinAMP Plug-in for Now Playing feature
Remove Advertisement in Sharing Folders Window
Remove Billing Info Menus
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November 14th, 2009 00:05
Virus detected – Do not download
November 1st, 2009 15:02
Virus detected
September 16th, 2009 22:29
stealth, I tried blocking rad.msn.com and it still loads the ads, even after a restart.
August 12th, 2009 21:29
Block MSN Messenger Ads? YES
http://www.demonoid.com/files/download/2030259/51191181
August 12th, 2009 11:28
virustotal.com detected trojan in a-patch
August 7th, 2009 13:48
Thanks Stealth, blocking the ad was all I needed to stop them from showing in my daughters account.
July 8th, 2009 17:58
why dont u guys just go to internet options and go to restricted sites and click sites and type in rad.msn.com and it gets rid of the main ad on the main screen and the ad when you talkin just type in the web page of wat ad comin up?
June 29th, 2009 18:19
Islamware STFU you stupid cunt!!!
May 19th, 2009 17:44
Awesome man! Thanks for this great util
May 19th, 2009 07:48
Not malware – of course not – you won’t notice anything wrong with your computer. Maybe though, you’ll notice something wrong with your bank accounts when the software you’ve just installed captures your banking login details and sends it off to someone in China/Russia/Romanania. Goog Luck. Oh what’s that you don’t using your computer for internet banking – lucky !
April 5th, 2009 22:57
[...] proggy called Noads.exe to keep ads from Yahoo’s messenger. Just did a quick search and found This No idea if it works or is recommended. But it says you can disable ads using it. Research it. Might [...]
March 14th, 2009 01:05
Islamware, you’re quite the nutter aren’t you. Get off the computer.
December 2nd, 2008 22:58
people if you want there is another program it’s called messpatch, google messpatch and download the one that is compatible with your version! it does exactly the same stuff as this thing does the difforence is that this one is virus free i checked it with AVG internet security
October 30th, 2008 15:23
the malware it contains is probably harmless, and the avg scanner for a free product is good but ails in comarrion to sophos
i have since researched the malware and it doesnt have any disastorous affects
there is a grey area between spyware and virus’s i guess… by definition telstra’s sensis software is malware and CA internet security picks it up as such, i am using the apatch thing now on my eeepc and its good to have a little screen realestate back… but i wouldnt be putting it on my pc at work just yet i guess…. hell if its open source software ill write out the bugs in it, for the time being though
happy using
apoligies for harsh on the original commment
October 30th, 2008 12:18
well ive been using it for months and havent had any issues with viruses or malware, my virus software thinks the google taskbar and realestate.com.au searchbox are malware… I figure its got to do something malicious to remove the ads but I’m happy with it. I am running AVG and I recently scanned the zip file again just to see if it picks up anything, and it doesnt.. Im happy with AVG – but yeah i guess you are right not to install it if your antivirus software complained about it. Has anyone else found the same problem? I would remove it straight away if someone agrees with you.. but man I love using MSN without ads. Havent found anything out there that works except this…
October 30th, 2008 11:06
This file contains malware, Sophos Enterprise antivirus picks it up, dangerous or not i am not going to risk it in a home or corporate environment
October 29th, 2008 04:26
Great patch but needs updating. It’s not compatible with the newest versions of messenger.
Thomas
October 10th, 2008 05:39
This patch worked fantastic. I don’t usually leave note on websites but I really want to say THANK YOU!
October 9th, 2008 21:04
grazie,,,,,,risolto
September 20th, 2008 23:00
This is a bullshit because of it’s misconception, God is God allah is allah, don’t confuse christianity with your jizzlam. People will not convert to a 1400 years of cult because you have violated terms of a im software and marked everywhere with racist arab transliterate term “Allah” both on your illegal site and software. Keep your illegal muslim hands out of christ software while preaching about nonexistent “Allah”.
September 9th, 2008 15:51
[...] Yahoo! which now able to exchange and send instant messages to Windows Live Messenger
August 17th, 2008 06:06
This sure beats hacking the .dll with rezhacker
July 31st, 2008 15:43
Thank you so much for this. The internet community owes you one. MSN started crashing constantly and I am 75% sure it was because of their ridiculous embedded advertisements. Here’s hoping it is now stable. A 100% improvement either way. Ads are for chumps.
Otherwise it is back to trillian. 
X
July 23rd, 2008 02:41
[...] Remove Ads from Windows Live Messenger with A-Patch and Customize Messenger Options and Visualisatio… Did the same things today haha __________________ Consumer of Onion Rings [...]
July 2nd, 2008 01:50
This is great! Thank you so much!
April 13th, 2008 21:33
well actualy…this had worked very fine…and u know what…….?….al the time when i need hackes…i end up her….so u know what?…imma join this website….its the best!!!!
February 27th, 2008 15:29
Brilliant!!!! I also checked some of the other options as well, thank you whoever !!!!! 10/10
February 25th, 2008 09:48
i block and delete old contacs and than when i open my msn again later that contacts what i blocked and deleted thay comes to accept or allowed again .what i need to do to block and delete and that not comes to allowed or accepet that contacts again ?tell me? please dears
February 13th, 2008 04:06
this is fantastic, voor de nederlandse bezoekers onder ons… werkt ook via nederlandstalige msn. bedankt voor deze patch!
February 4th, 2008 11:55
WLM 8.5 is now supported, just goto the authors website and get the latest version (1.40 as of writing this), it works perfectly. There is even a release for WLM 9.0
February 2nd, 2008 07:28
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December 26th, 2007 19:45
Please release a patch that supports 8.5 version
December 25th, 2007 18:41
This tool is outdated, will you release a tool for windows live messenger 2008 any time soon?
November 14th, 2007 13:30
[...] One of the popular MSN Messenger add-on is MultiMSN, which has been renamed MultiLive. Unless A-Patch or other programs, MultiLive or MultiMSN focuses on providing WLM users with polygamy and ads [...]
November 3rd, 2007 22:00
ok to get rid of the info on customer experience program… its the “remove yellow bar ” option
November 3rd, 2007 21:57
Thanks, a lot of options to SELECT to remove i like the flexibility on that. Good Job. I hope this will be an on going process on updating, and as dude above said all ready how do you get rid of the learn more about the Customer Experience Improvement Program?
if i could just get rid of that it would be set.
October 22nd, 2007 01:52
how do you remove that link that says “learn more about the customer experience improvement program” directly about the contact list… it has a stupid little “i” in a bubble beside it too. i jsut dont know what its called so i dont know which option to select to get rid of it
October 20th, 2007 07:53
Thanks for great program .. keep up this good works … AND DO NOT be affected for nobody like ((( Brash ))) and what ((( IT ))) think about ISLAM or any other religion
Allah please you Brother.
October 13th, 2007 07:18
Great patch! It’s so good I saw the light and converted to Islam! Praise Allah, and pass the dynamite. – morons! Ah yes – ain’t it great? We now push religion over our software… It’s not enough that we want to change your holidays to non-denominational designations, but now software!? Get Bent!
October 9th, 2007 03:31
So what if it has religious stuff at the end of it. The program works perfectly
October 8th, 2007 02:40
Wow, this program is really great. Good job to whoever worked on it.
September 23rd, 2007 16:25
Works like a charm – thx
September 17th, 2007 17:48
What a fantastic program. Removes all the clutter from MSN so easily. Thank you.
September 14th, 2007 01:52
[...] But, today I did a MSN Search for “Remove ads from live messenger”, and I came across a blog entry about this WONDERFUL program called “A-Patch”. [...]
August 29th, 2007 06:23
Hey man, GREAT job thnx
August 21st, 2007 16:14
thank god!!! and allah..lol @ the islamic message(u losers didnt notice the website the patch is from is all in arabic…lol)
now i hope that stupid script bullshit wont pop up every 5 minutes and disable messages without pressing “yes”
ugh stupid ads
August 17th, 2007 21:56
If it wasn’t for the religion shit at the end this would be good.
July 26th, 2007 08:55
Wow, this program is really great. But if it didn’t try to convert me to Islam, it would be a lot better.
July 23rd, 2007 23:48
BISHIN SWEET
July 5th, 2007 09:48
WORKSS … thanks
June 27th, 2007 12:14
this is awesome, but wtf is that religious bullshit at the end of the patch?
June 25th, 2007 10:52
I love you….
June 25th, 2007 02:48
Works – removed Ads from msn – Thanks
June 3rd, 2007 20:45
it worked here.
thanks
May 31st, 2007 14:48
This is not working :S
May 24th, 2007 10:14
Thanks for the info, went to mess.be before and couldn’t find anything useful.
May 21st, 2007 01:03
Piece of shit…doesn;t work
May 8th, 2007 15:49
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April 26th, 2007 02:09
[...] Hier hab ich doch mal was Sch
March 22nd, 2007 01:18
How is this any different to the mess.be pather thats been out to donkey’s years and always wokrs and is updated for new Beta versions?
I’ll keep using messpatcher thanks.
January 1st, 2007 02:35
Since the apatch site is down, I added rad.msn.com to the internet explorer’s restricted site list. The adds were gone when I reopened MSN Messenger. Many thanks for the tip, plus it’s nice to not have to install a potentially dangerous patch.
December 30th, 2006 13:40
hey thanks man rely works exactly what i needed
December 25th, 2006 13:56
I had downloaded windows live to communicate with my boss. But he does not have the right version of Yahoo. and now he is getting A REALLY IRRITATING little pop-up EVERYTIME HE SIGNS IN even though I uninstalled the program from my Comp…HOW CAN WE GET RID OF THE POP-Up that wants him to install Yahoo 8??? WITHOUT installing….
December 21st, 2006 10:32
How do u put Handwrtiting tool on Windows live messenger and do coninous nudges?
December 5th, 2006 19:35
excellent thankyou
December 5th, 2006 14:22
how do u do continuous nudges??
December 3rd, 2006 19:12
Serendipity please talk like a human. stop that vulgar turkish language.
November 13th, 2006 08:58
Solid thanks!
Chers!
October 23rd, 2006 21:19
What a great tool!
I hated that ad on the bottom of the main screen and since there are hardly any skins available for MSN 8, I thought I’d have to look at this for a while. Great customization tool.
Thanks a lot.
October 18th, 2006 18:13
Great app, finally got rid of that bloody NSPCC advert, who wants to see an incestual father brag about abusing his daughter ¬¬
I would recomend this to prog to all, Microsoft should be paying YOU to advertise within your messenger and monitor space. Dont stand for what they think they can just force on you.#
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October 4th, 2006 19:04
If all you are trying to do is hide / block / remove / disable ads in MSN Messenger or Windows Live Messenger, there is a much easier approach:
Add rad.msn.com to your Restricted Sites in Internet Explorer
Search on “rad.msn.com” and you’ll learn all kinds of things.
September 26th, 2006 18:07
Great tool, Thanks for sharing this.
September 24th, 2006 01:50
Great mod tool – very much needed thanks!
September 3rd, 2006 22:38
No, I have the same problem as Sam… my Delete is also greyed out in Tools/Options/Privacy… I have deleted myself from this person’s contact list (I have her password, as I created the account for her) and I was able to right-click Delete MY name from HER Blocked list, but cannot delete HER name from MY Blocked list. :-S
August 18th, 2006 16:55
Go to Tools -> Options -> Privacy, try to delete from there.
August 18th, 2006 16:36
Please help! I want to remove/delete some contacts in my block list.
Thank you.
PS: The delete option which appears when you rightclick is disabled.
August 15th, 2006 23:03
hi – this is a great little tool – respect to whoever made this !!
when i open my msn messenger i have all cookies blocked and i keep getting this really annoying pop up !!!a picture of the pop up can be seen here : http://ww1.pureupload.com/stfiles/362/error%20in%20msn.bmp
can anyone sort this out please – its really annoying – thanks a lot
August 10th, 2006 00:16
can you go back into the patch after you run it and edit it? if so how?
August 4th, 2006 22:15
[...] Yahoo! Messenger 7.5 and Yahoo! Messenger with Voice 8 is the install messaging client from Yahoo! which now able to exchange and send instant messages to Windows Live Messenger’s users. Like Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger has all the best features, with lots of advertisements and animated ads. If you don’t like the ads and wants no ads on Yahoo! Messenger window, there are few ways that allow you to remove the advertisements. Ads in Yahoo! Messenger can be removed by manually editing the registry. [...]
August 3rd, 2006 10:35
VERY NICE and helpfull indeed
July 21st, 2006 19:47
this is so hard
July 9th, 2006 23:52
[...] Windows Live Messenger, the new MSN Messenger from Microsoft is a nice instant messenger client except that it contains advertisements, banner ads on the main messenger window plus text ads on the chat windows. However, some programs can faciliate the ads removal from Windows Live Messenger, one of them is A-Patch, and another tool is WLM Universal Patcher++ from MasterLine. WLM Universal Patcher++ v0.9.1 will be able to enable the ability to multiple login to Windows Live Messenger, remove and hide banner ads, remove and hide WLM tabs, remove and make the ad bar invisible, remove and hide the MSN search at the bottom of WLM window, and remove the WLM actions pane (the options on top of the WLM contact list). [...]
July 6th, 2006 04:38
[...] Şimdi diyelim ki Windows Live Messenger indirdiniz ve reklamlarından ve birçok farklı özelliğinden mutlu değilsiniz. Hemen şuradan yamayı indirip, kurabilirsiniz. Ama yinede “ben öyle tek kişiyle chat yapmam, herkesi tek pencere’de göreyim diyorsanız. Messenger Plus’ı yükleyebilirsiniz“. [...]
July 3rd, 2006 12:35
[...] There is a new version of msn messenger and there is already an application to customize it for you ie getting rid of those bloody annoying ads down the bottom of the window.here [...]
June 23rd, 2006 20:09
Is there any way to get the contacts pictures back (like in MSN Messenger 7) where the little green guys are on the contact list?