How to Disable and Remove Ads from Yahoo Messenger 9.

Disable and Remove Yahoo! Messenger 9 Ads

2 April 2009 by Vinay 6 Comments

Yahoo! Messenger – Instant messaging allows you to quickly exchange messages with your online friends. Unlike e-mail, instant messages appear as soon they`re sent. Other features include voice chat, file transfer, mail and stock quote alerts, sports scores, news, and much more. After installing Yahoo messenger 9 You might be getting annoyed by the ads in the bottom . So how to remove these annoying ads on the bottom of Yahoo! Messenger 9 window.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. Yahoo is starting to be a lot like Microsoft with their messenger. To remove and disable ads display on Yahoo Messenger 9, follow the trick below:

Run Registry Editor (regedit.exe).

Navigate to the following registry key:HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareYahoopagerLocale

In the right pane, locate a value named Enable Messenger Ad with default value as 1. Set the value to 0.

Restart Yahoo! Messenger 9.0.

Restart Messenger and Enjoy Ads free Environment O_O

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6 Comments »

Dev said:

It did not work for me on Yahoo Messenger 9.0.0.2128.
I still got those annoying ads.

# 15 April 2009 at 8:35 am

Win said:

Guys,

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Thanks
-Win

# 23 May 2009 at 8:27 am

celia said:

Did not work for me either.
I am using the latest messenger. Most likely yahoo found this fix and made it where it won’t work. Hopefully someone will find another way soon.

# 29 May 2009 at 11:25 am