How to Remove Yahoo Messenger Ads
For those who are using Yahoo Messenger 7.5 or 8.0,
you will notice there is a little ads box at the bottom of your main window.
To remove the yahoo messenger ads, follow the steps below:-
Step 1:
Create a file with extension .reg with the content below:-
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Yahoo\Pager\YUrl]
“Messenger Ad”=”*”
“Change Room Banner”=”*”
“Chat Adurl”=”*”
“Conf Adurl”=”*”
“Webcam Upload Ad”=”*”
“Webcam Viewer Ad”=”*”
“Webcam Viewer Ad Bid”=”*”
“Webcam Viewer Ad Medium”=”*”
Step 2:
Double click the file you just created to update the Window Registry.
Step 3:
Restart your Yahoo Messenger and the ads should have removed.
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January 12th, 2007 at 11:15 am
The yahoo fix doesn’t seem to fix the latest version.. 8.1.0.209 / 8.0.0.1 I was so hoping..
May 14th, 2007 at 12:18 am
This fix does not remove the banner on version 8.1.0.249
June 22nd, 2008 at 9:17 am
To remove and disable ads display on Yahoo Messenger 9, follow the trick below:
1.Run Registry Editor (regedit.exe).
2.Navigate to the following registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Yahoo\pager\Locale
3.In the right pane, locate a value named Enable Messenger
4.Ad with default value as 1. Set the value to 0.
5.Restart Yahoo! Messenger 9.0.
The ads will be disappeared from Yahoo Messenger after restarting.
September 22nd, 2008 at 8:36 am
Modifying “enable messenger ad” in the registry for messenger 9.0 does not work. It seems that they have found a work around for this in their latest version. Does anybody have any other ideas?
September 26th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
it doesn’t work on final version, 9