Disable and Remove Yahoo! Messenger 9 Ads

// September 25th, 2008 // Technology, Tutorial, Windows

Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 is already final and available for free public download to install and use. As with any previous versions of Yahoo Messenger, there are various ads blocks display advertisements in messenger or message and chat windows. The banner ad and text ad units can be disabled or turned off by using a simple registry hack similar to trick used to remove ads on Yahoo Messenger 8 and version 7.
To remove and disable ads display on Yahoo Messenger 9, follow the trick below:

  1. Run Registry Editor (Start -> Run -> Regedit)
  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 Ad with default value as 1. Set the value to 0.
  4. Restart Yahoo! Messenger 9.0.

The ads will be disappeared from Yahoo Messenger after restarting.

The easier and more recommended way is to copy and paste the below commands into a notepad and save it to a batch file, for example noADS.bat and run it once.

@ECHO OFF
TITLE Remove ads from Yahoo Messenger 8

> %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”=”*”
>>%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

ATTRIB -R “%PROGRAMFILES%\Yahoo!\Messenger\Cache\urls.xml”
ECHO “” >”%PROGRAMFILES%\Yahoo!\Messenger\Cache\urls.xml”
ATTRIB +R “%PROGRAMFILES%\Yahoo!\Messenger\Cache\urls.xml”

Run the file once, and restart your Yahoo Messenger. Cheers!

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16 Responses to “Disable and Remove Yahoo! Messenger 9 Ads”

  1. Menghilangkan Iklan (ads) di Yahoo Messenger 9 | redybasuki.web.id says:
    07/10/2008 at 4:22 PM

    [...] mbah Google dan akhirnya menemukan cara untuk menghilangkan iklan di YM versi 9 di blog Enemies.org. Untuk cara yang mudah, download saja perintah ini noads-yahoo.cmd. Jika file tersebut tidak [...]

    Reply
  2. Albert says:
    10/11/2008 at 1:03 PM

    you need to do attrib +r +s +h urls.xml, instead of attrib +r urls.xml

    Reply
  3. Abdul RaFy says:
    01/01/2009 at 4:01 PM

    not working buddy
    the add appears again…

    Reply
  4. Bench says:
    31/01/2009 at 8:14 AM

    Try to add the line:
    127.0.0.1 insider.msg.yahoo.com
    to the following file:
    C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

    Reply
  5. Nicku says:
    11/02/2009 at 1:20 AM

    Bench,

    It works, but the blank frame is still there, i want it out, any suggestions? Thanks!

    Reply
  6. YMessenger User says:
    24/02/2009 at 11:40 AM

    Yahoo messenger 9 will not run on Win9X.
    Calls for 2k or higher.

    This batch file is for win9X.

    Regedit4 = 9x

    Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 = 2K/XP/Vista

    This batch file is useless.

    Reply
  7. hasan agha says:
    08/04/2009 at 2:31 PM

    sallam

    Reply
  8. saigon66 says:
    16/05/2009 at 5:08 PM

    Try to add the line:
    127.0.0.1 insider.msg.yahoo.com
    to the following file:
    C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

    Don’t work on windows 7

    Reply
  9. akira says:
    01/06/2009 at 9:09 AM

    I’m using noYmads2.bat

    then add
    127.0.0.1 insider.msg.yahoo.com
    to the following file:
    C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

    works for me.no blank frame.

    Reply
  10. speedy18us says:
    09/06/2009 at 3:22 PM

    Hi everyone. For the new messenger i saw that non of old methods are working. I have a website with some downloads. http://baiamare.myftp.org/downloads.php?cat_id=13 here you can find yahoo messenger with this patch that is working. ;) good luck!

    Reply
  11. denden says:
    30/06/2009 at 6:26 PM

    gyz now it wont allow you to join chat rooms if you do this have tried it I thought its just a bug on my system but after I change it back in the hosts, i can join room again,, peace! :D

    Reply
  12. arth says:
    23/07/2009 at 1:18 AM

    works well with Win XP

    no blank box whatsover

    thanks!

    Reply
  13. me says:
    07/11/2009 at 5:16 AM

    there actually IS a blank box but it appears after you change the size of the window. Pretty sucky .

    Reply
  14. kowek says:
    18/01/2010 at 5:42 PM

    good job. no more ads here. its working. thanks.

    Reply

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