Remove Ads from Yahoo Messenger

Click on START >> RUN >> type in: REGEDIT >> click OK
go to: \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Yahoo\Pager\Locale\
double click on the Enable Messenger Ad Dword Value & change the Value Data field from 1 (enabled) to 0 (disabled)
now go to: \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Yahoo\Pager\YUrl\
inside the YUrl key, create these new String Values:
Change Room Banner
Chat Adurl
Conf Adurl
Messenger Ad
Webcam Upload Ad
Webcam Viewer Ad
Webcam Viewer Ad Big
Webcam Viewer Ad Medium
Y Content
if you don’t know how to create them, you just need to right click (inside the key), select NEW >> String Value
double click on ALL the new String Values & on each Value Data field, type in: *
you’ll now have something like this:
you can close the registry editor now.
for those who don’t want to edit their registry manually..
copy-paste this is notepad:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Yahoo\pager\Locale]“Enable Messenger Ad”=dword:00000000
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Yahoo\Pager\YUrl]“Messenger Ad”=”*”“Webcam Upload Ad”=”*”“Webcam Viewer Ad”=”*”“Webcam Viewer Ad Big”=”*”“Webcam Viewer Ad Medium”=”*”“Change Room Banner”=”*”“Conf Adurl”=”*”“Chat Adurl”=”*”“Y Content”=”*”
then save the file as removeYMads.reg (or whateverYouWant.reg). just make sure the extension is .reg
double-click on the file & click YES when windows asks you if you want to import the file to registry (or somethin like that. can’t recall the exact message. XD).
for the last step, explore the path you installed ym into & open the Cache folder. it’s usually: C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\Cache
inside the cache folder, create a new xml document & name it urls.xml
don’t know how to make one? the easiest would be to: RIGHT CLICK >> select New >> Text Document. then rename the newly created whatever.txt to urls.xml. make sure you change the TXT extension to XML.
for the final step, right click on your newly created urls.xml >> then select PROPERTIES. on the properties box, put a check on the Read-only attribute. something like this:
now we’re all set. you can close everything now & launch your yahoo messenger. your ym is now ad-free.
AGAIN, do NOT do this if you plan on using the YAHOO! CHAT feature. chat WILL NOT WORK if you disable the ads.
now just disable the unwanted/unneccessary stuff (yahoo insider, search bar, voice bar, plugins, etc) to streamline your ym: