Removing the ads from AIM 5.2

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August 20, 2003 at 9:20 am #12471

WooHooAdime
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ohk ive gone to alot of different sites and tried all there ways for removing the adds aim 5.2 has and nothing ive tried works no matter how many times i do it(which wood be deleting the file advert.ocm and Renaming the file admin.ocm to advert.ocm), . . ive also tried downloading ad removal programs and the ads are still there. i have gotten aim+ and the ads are still there is there any other way to take the adds out … besides dead aim, i had dead aim before and its a good program but it stoped working properly so i removed it

im not sure if there was another “thread” or we thats close to this or has somthing to do with this… so sory if there was

just wondering thanx for ur help:rolleyes:

August 21, 2003 at 8:45 am #91654

WooHooAdime
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anybody?:rolleyes:

August 21, 2003 at 9:47 am #91645

fuzzface00
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I typically install a firewall product like Norton Personal Firewall on my system. Then I tell the firewall to block access to the AOL ad web server for all applications. I believe it is ar.atwola.com. This works independently of any modifications to the application.

August 21, 2003 at 9:51 am #91653

WooHooAdime
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so when you do that what will happen..like the ads will go away, but will there be a whit spot there or will the buddy list fill it in. and when you said block all aol ads will its block ALL the ads or just the ones telling you about aol for broadband and all the aol stuff there trying to sell you:rolleyes:

August 21, 2003 at 6:42 pm #91656

edgeblade69
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I have a way to remove the buddy list ads. It involves editing aimres.dll. You need to get a program called Resource Hacker. You need to be sure to make a backup copy of aimres.dll in case you screw it up. Then you need to do a search for ad. It will take several finds to find it. You’ll know when you find it because it will say this:

CONTROL “93142556”, 134, “_AimAd”, 0x50002680, 57, 15, 80, 37 , 0x00010000
CONTROL “ATE”, 148, “WndAte32Class”, 0x40000000, 57, 15, 80, 37

Remove that from the file. Click compile, then click file->save and your done. Oh yeah, be sure to exit AIM before messing with this. No more buddy list ads. And yes, it does merge the buddy list.

August 21, 2003 at 9:18 pm #91652

WooHooAdime
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ohk i have res. hacker but where do you find the point you had showed me, where do u look under:rolleyes:

August 21, 2003 at 9:21 pm #91651

WooHooAdime
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…i typed in aimres.dll and nothing was there :confused:

August 22, 2003 at 2:51 am #91655

edgeblade69
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You need to go to file open in Resource Hacker and open aimres.dll, it should be in C:Program FilesAIM or C:Program FilesAIM95 or wherever you installed AIM. Then just do a search for ad (using CTRL-F, the find feature), until you find the line of code I showed you.

August 25, 2003 at 7:45 am #91647

Someguy03
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I just want to point out WooHooAdime, that the reason the ad was not blocked when you got aim+ was because it no longer entirely functions with AIM 5.x This disables some of Aim+’s features and Ad-removal is one of them.

What works with AIM 5.x:
AIM+ Menu in IM/Chat Windows
Cloning
History Logging
Transparent IM/Chat Windows

What doesn’t work with AIM 5.x:
+ Menu on Buddy List
Ad Removal[/b]
AIM+ Menu in AIM icon on Buddy List
Clones Have No Sounds
Hide General / Buddy List Button Rows
History Viewer with 5.x Logs
Supress AIM Today window
Transparent Buddy List Window

August 25, 2003 at 8:48 pm #91650

WooHooAdime
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oh ohk thanx i thought i remember reading that somwhere but wow i guess i forgot thanx tho 🙂

September 5, 2003 at 4:21 am #91660

restless311
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edgeblade69:

I have a way to remove the buddy list ads. It involves editing aimres.dll. You need to get a program called Resource Hacker. You need to be sure to make a backup copy of aimres.dll in case you screw it up. Then you need to do a search for ad. It will take several finds to find it. You’ll know when you find it because it will say this:

CONTROL “93142556”, 134, “_AimAd”, 0x50002680, 57, 15, 80, 37 , 0x00010000
CONTROL “ATE”, 148, “WndAte32Class”, 0x40000000, 57, 15, 80, 37

Remove that from the file. Click compile, then click file->save and your done. Oh yeah, be sure to exit AIM before messing with this. No more buddy list ads. And yes, it does merge the buddy list.

In Resource Hacker:

Dialog – 323

October 12, 2003 at 1:48 pm #91659

restless311
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This also works for the new beta version 5.5.3415. It even works a little better. No big empty spaces, even when you set it to away.

October 12, 2003 at 4:24 pm #91649

korruptmind
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ok so in reality deadaim is dead and aim+ sux from what i see so the only worth program now is aimutation or of course jsut having deadaim with the old aim and never upgrading….
y cant someone like buy the old source code from deadaim and continue it independently

October 12, 2003 at 4:35 pm #91658

restless311
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Get the new aim beta and use Resource Hacker. Get rid of the ads and brings up the buddy list. The beta is pretty good so far. When someone signs on it does like MSN(brings up the little window in the corner).

http://www.aim.com/get_aim/win/win_beta.adp?aolperm=%3C%25=$header%25%3E

October 12, 2003 at 6:16 pm #91662

Wet Dog500
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Just reinstall aim without saving any of your setting and run this patch http://discuss.big-o-software.com/download.php?id=434
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