Razvan Pandor

Old topic but always usefull.

The “hard way”:

Removing the Ad from the bottom of the main Yahoo! Messenger window

1. Open “%Programfiles%\Yahoo!\Messenger\YahooMessenger.exe” file into a Hex Editor.
2. Locate the offset 3981AC and change the string “enabled” to anything you want.
3. Save and Exit.
Remove Ads from chat window, webcam, etc.

1. Open notepad and paste the following code:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\yahoo\pager\YUrl]
“First Login Beacon”=”*”
“Tutorials”=”*”
“Messenger Help”=”*”
“Voice General Help”=”*”
“Change Room Banner”=”*”
“Address Book”=”*”
“Finance Disclaimer”=”*”
“Messenger Ad”=”*”
“Chat Adurl”=”*”
“Calendar Alert Ad URL”=”*”
“Conf Adurl”=”*”
“Mail Alert Ad URL”=”*”
“News Alert Ad URL”=”*”
“Personals Alert Ad URL”=”*”
“Stock Alert Ad URL”=”*”
“Webcam Viewer Ad Medium”=”*”
“Webcam Viewer Ad Big”=”*”
“Webcam Viewer Ad”=”*”
“Webcam Upload Ad”=”*”
“Chat Transition Ad”=”*”
“N2Phone Adurl”=”*”
“Webcam Viewer Ad Bid”=”*”

2. Save the file with any name and give the extension as .REG
3. Run the file.

The easy way:

There is also another Y!Msgr ad removal tool Yahoo! Messenger AD-Remover New 2 Patch (download link) which patch the YahooMessenger.exe and edit some registry values. After patch, the flash ads on the main windows will be removed completely.

P.s. soultions tested vor versions lower than 8.1.0.421 (including)

Ok there are several possibilities to download a video from youTube, Google video, or any video sharing site. Here are 2 of them:

1. Using Mozilla Firefox’s cache. First find out where the browser stores the cache files by typing “about:cache” in a new Firefox tab. Then open the video that you want to save to your computer in a new tab. When the video starts Firefox begins writting a cache file to the previous found folder. After the video is completly loaded you should just copy the file from the cache folder (beware at the creation timestamp!), give it a “.flv” extension and you are ready to go.
   This option has a big fault, and it seems that the Mozilla developpers wont fix it. The browser wouldnt create cache files larger than ~67 Mb and the user can’t change that limit. The size of the whole cache folder can easily be changed to any value by going to Firefox’s Tools>Options>Advanced menu. (the default value is 50 Mb)
2. Using Download Helper - a Mozilla Firefox Add-on that enables you to get virtualy any video/picture from almost any site. A minor disadvantage of this add-on is that it only lets you download one file at a time, butt I still preffer this way of getting stuff from video sites.

For playing .flv files I recommand Real’s Real Player