Remove ads on Yahoo Messenger

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Remove ads on Yahoo Messenger

Yahoo Messenger is one of the existing Instant Messenger and Yahoo issued. There are tips and tricks so that we can save more bandwidth than Yahoo Messenger is (very useful for Internet users based quotas). Namely by removing existing ads on Yahoo Messenger Window. There are a few that we must do in order to eliminate the different versions ini. Because different versions, different way, too.

Yahoo Messenger Version 7.5 & 8
1. Run Registry Editor (Start -> Run -> Regedit)
2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\yahoo\pager\YUrl
3. Change all the fields below with "*" (without the quotes):
  Messenger Ad
  Webcam Upload Ad
  Webcam Viewer Ad
  Webcam Viewer Ad Big
  Webcam Viewer Ad Medium
  Change Room Banner
  Conf Adurl
  Chat Adurl
  If no, then make their own way, right click select New -> String Value.
4. Close the Registry Editor and Run Windows Explorer
5. Open the C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\Cache\
6. Find the file urls.xml
7. Open and Delete all the existing content in the urls.xml file, and then save the file
8. Then change the file attribute to Read-Only, by the way, right click on urls.xml file, select Properties, then select Read-only, then select OK
Yahoo Messenger Version 8.0.0.701
1. Open Notepad (Start -> Run -> Notepad)
2. Then type as below, can also directly copy and paste:
  
  @ECHO OFF
  TITLE Remove Ads On Yahoo Messenger 8-9
  
  ATTRIB -R "%PROGRAMFILES%\Yahoo!\Messenger\Cache\urls.xml"
  ECHO "" >"%PROGRAMFILES%\Yahoo!\Messenger\Cache\urls.xml"
  ATTRIB +R "%PROGRAMFILES%\Yahoo!\Messenger\Cache\urls.xml"
  cacls "%PROGRAMFILES%\Yahoo!\Messenger\Cache\urls.xml" /E /P %username%:N
  
  SET CONTENTPATH=""
  IF ERRORLEVEL 1 SET CONTENTPATH="*"
  
  > %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"=%CONTENTPATH%
  >>%TEMP%.\noYMads.reg ECHO [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Yahoo\Pager\Locale]
  >>%TEMP%.\noYMads.reg ECHO "Enable Messenger Ad"="0"
  REGEDIT /S %TEMP%.\noYMads.reg
  DEL %TEMP%.\noYMads.reg
3. Then save the noYads.bat name, and run the file
Yahoo Messenger 9 1
1. Run Registry Editor (Start -> Run -> Regedit)
2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Yahoo\pager\Locale
3. In the right panel, look for Enable Messenger Ad, replace value with 0