Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Turn off error-causing ads from Yahoo! Messenger 8

Most users complain about the error pop-ups rooted from the ads attached to their Yahoo! IM clients. Turning off from the registry is the best way shun them.


In the registry,



[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Yahoo\Pager\YUrl]

Set or add these values,



Messenger Ad = *
Webcam Upload Ad = *
Webcam Viewer Ad = *
Webcam Viewer Ad Medium = *
Webcam Viewer Ad Big = *
Change Room Banner = *
Conf Adurl = *
Chat Adurl = *

Edit the file \Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\Cache\urls.xml, erase all the contents and leave 2 double quotes (” “), save it then mark as read-only.