Remove, Disable and Turn Off Yahoo! Messenger Ads
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.
- Launch Registry Editor (Start -> Run -> Regedit).
- Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\yahoo\pager\YUrl
- Replacing the following registry values with dummy asterisk (*):
Messenger Ad
Webcam Upload Ad
Webcam Viewer Ad
Webcam Viewer Ad Big
Webcam Viewer Ad Medium
Change Room Banner
Conf Adurl
Chat AdurlAfter change, the registry keys and values will looks like this:
If the registry key doesn’t exist, simply create a new String Value registry key with the name by right clicking on the above registry branch and select New -> String Value.
- Close Registry Editor and launch Windows Explorer.
- Go to C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\Cache\
- Locate the file urls.xml
- Clear the content of urls.xml
- Save the empty urls.xml file (it should be an empty file).
- Change the attributes of urls.xml to Read-Only by right click on the file and select properties, and click on Read-only.
Note: You can try only the step 5 to 9. If it’s working, then other steps are not necessary. The patch should works for most version of Yahoo Messenger including version 7, 7.5 and 8.
Google Operating System has make a batch file that will automate the above process. If you want the automated way to disable the annoying animated ads in Yahoo Messenger, download the batch file here.
If you still unable to turn off advertisements on Yahoo Messenger, try to download YM Ad Patch which remove the advertisement from the bottom of the contact list, the advertisements in various other places of Yahoo! Messenger and another patch and trick that allows users to run more than one instance of Yahoo! Messenger.
There is also a free tool called Y.AddsRemover that removes ads on Yahoo! Messenger ad, Yahoo! Chat ad, YM PM ads and many others. Y.AddsRemover allows users to pick which ads they want to remove. To remove all Yahoo! Messenger Ads, just click “Select All” after start the program. Apply the patch by clicking on “Remove Selected Ads” to hide the ads.
Update: For Yahoo! Messenger version 8.0.0.701 and above, the above tricks no longer work. Use the new patches instead.
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August 26th, 2009 22:08
i hv yahoo 10.0.0 Beta and it works …
thanks alOt
July 14th, 2009 13:22
this is how you remove the ad in the chat room if you are using the latest version of yahoo messenger. find your host file C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\ect make sure its not read only first then open it in a text editor . after the line 127.0.0.1 localhost add a new line and put this. 127.0.0.0 chat.yahoo.com ..close it and make it read only.exit messenger and reopen it go in a room the ad will be gone. figured this out myself sinse nothing else worked
June 6th, 2009 22:52
it doesn’t work on v.9.0.0.2162.
June 1st, 2009 16:05
i have yahoo 9.0.0……215
and it still works! thanks!
May 8th, 2009 03:19
thx redhat_Gizmo it’s works
April 3rd, 2009 20:45
Ok i Got It to remove the main window frame
simply open the yahoomassnger.exe in any hexeditor
and seatch for entry “00037D70″ & change the num “84″ to “83″….& then the frame will gone ..;-)
April 3rd, 2009 20:11
It works!
thx
April 3rd, 2009 19:52
@ toderu it’s working but the ad window is still there any trick to remove that ????
February 22nd, 2009 07:51
A better/easier way to disable yahoo ads is to add the line:
127.0.0.1 insider.msg.yahoo.com
into file
c:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts [2000/xp/vista (also i think windows 7)]
can be added from start->run->echo ‘127.0.0.1 insider.msg.yahoo.com’ >> ‘c:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts’
Your yahoo insider will be unavailable also.
No additional patch is required.
November 3rd, 2008 04:37
just download Super Ad Blocker 4.6
here the link below:
http://www.download.com/Super-Ad-Blocker/3640-7786_4-10811507-2.html?tag=page;page
or goto google and type in search bar Super Ad Blocker 4.6
hope this works
September 26th, 2008 17:09
it doesn’t work on final 9
September 13th, 2008 04:10
tego un problema co la version 8 de yahoo al bloquear los mensajes privados y entrar a una sala de charla ya no puedo ver lo que los demas escriben salvo la gente que esta en mi lista de amigos como puedo hacer para resolver este problema
gracias
rodo
March 28th, 2008 06:44
HERE IS ONE MORE ADDITION TO THAT LIST:
STEP 10:
AFTER SETTING THE ATTRIBUTES TO READ-ONLY MAKE SURE YOU HAVE ADVANCED FILE PERMISSIONS ENABLED AND DENY ANY WRITE ACCESS TO THE FILE, YAHOO WILL BYPASS THE READONLY ATTRIBUTE AND OVERWRITE THE CLEAR FILE … HAPPY HACKING.
January 28th, 2008 22:47
ok i did that… ads r not coming..but yahoo chat rooms are also not coming.. wat should i do??
September 1st, 2007 17:01
works great for me maybe all too great…now when i go to room lists the rooms don’t show on the right column..stuck on “getting room list for….”now what?
July 16th, 2007 14:56
atharkhan .. follow my link and dl that app ..
July 15th, 2007 21:29
i want yahoo multi messenger plz kindly reply me my mail addresss atharkhan_khan@yahoo.com
July 10th, 2007 03:33
use this h**p://rapidshare.com/files/41974259/AdDestroy31.rar
June 2nd, 2007 10:14
YAHOO SUCKS A BIG ONE…BUT THE CRACK WORKS VERY WELL. HAHA FUCK YOU YAHOO.
February 5th, 2007 11:28
Must say excellent post Yahoo ads is very annoying /
January 31st, 2007 18:43
It should works !
If you guys did not do the instructions properly, better download this batch file and run it to automate the job:
http://ionutalexchitu.googlepages.com/noYMads2.bat
Y!Ad sucks !
January 6th, 2007 16:02
Hellow its very2 work… but I’ve some question.. how to edit with my banner? or with my flash program at banner place ? thanks for info..
December 12th, 2006 00:46
[...] If you upgrade and install Yahoo! Messenger with Voice 8.0.0.701 or above (latest version been 8.1.0.195 or 8.1.0.209), the previous tricks, hacks or workarounds to remove, disable or take off the advertisement banners in Yahoo! Messenger no longer working. Here is the new crack or hack that functions as the Yahoo! Messenger 8 ads remover that will remove and hide the animated flash ads banner at the bottom of main window for newest and latest version of Yahoo! Messenger. Google Operating System has prepared a automated command prompt batch script file that will automatically merge the required registry values into the Windows registry and patch the urls.xml file in order to hide the YM ads. Download the batch file noYMads2.bat. Once downloaded the batch file, simply execute and run the batch script by double clicking it, and the every Yahoo Messenger ads removal fixes will be installed properly. [...]
December 10th, 2006 02:14
none of them work :-\
December 8th, 2006 10:01
same on me. is not working none of them
November 24th, 2006 09:23
I have YM 8.1.0.195, all of the above doesn’t worked. Any other ideas??
thanks,
ryu
November 1st, 2006 21:53
All tools not work on proxy connection if
you set: check use the same proxy for all protocols in the internet options in lan setting in control panel.
This will causing ads at bottom of contact list appears again with blank page. If i dont use proxy the speed will reduced, just bad.
October 26th, 2006 09:24
Thanks a lot! It’s work!!!!!!!!
October 6th, 2006 03:24
NOT WORKING>…… non of ‘em
August 23rd, 2006 06:22
http://rapidshare.de/files/30115342/ymsgr800_701_us.exe