Yahoo Messenger 8.0.0.701

hi guys
1- i downloaded the new messenger but i get an internet explorer error when i try to view a friend web cam while he is offline, thats maybe cos he appear offline but it happened sometimes while he is online…..any ideas???:confused:

2- what happened to the adult chat rooms,:( there is none shown in chat and nothing under romance except by location and friends, is there is a way to get them back, i know they took off the users rooms in adult chat but not yahoo ones….hope some one can help

3- any chance for vb packts menu updates for the new messenger or any way to put the menu in the old format as i liked it better then….thinking to go back to 7 till all these things got fixed….:rolleyes:

4- when i sign in to messenger with yplus it take 2 or 3 tries till i sign in which i dont know why but i sign in first time without it….is yplus any good or just plain crap and doesnt do any thing for the user except making things more hard…:mad:

iam using xp pro with sp2
ymessenger 8.0.0.701
ymessenger plus (which i thought it would help with the chat rooms but no)

ps- i tired to upload a pic to show the error i get but i cannot, it give error saying the connection has been reset The connection was reset, iam using firefox …tired 5 times but no good…..

thanks alot for any help u can

Yay! Good work man! 🙂 Works perfectly. 😉

I’ve tried aneagle’s and tim2679’s patches, and here are the problems I’ve faced:

a) No more plugins. Yeah, that simple. I mean, button “Plugins” is still at the bottom of the main window, but plugins aren’t loading. Messenger says: “Whoops. Looks like you’ve already tried every available Yahoo! Messenger plug-in.”
b) Still can’t change “Home country”, it’s not highlighting.

Question: In 683 and earlier builds I had a problem in chats. While I was chatting, a message “You can’t ignore yourself” kept on popping up oftenly. Is it fixed in 701? I didn’t even do anything, just sat and chat. No idea why do I keep getting it, surely I wasn’t trying to ignore myself.

Wait, wait. I think I might know the problem. When you mentioned “other” I remembered that I used something else beside your patch. See, I have created a list of registry entries for few reasons:

1) When people replce “webcam viewer ad big” with “*” it slows the webcam down. You have to replace it with any blank link, not “*” (many people on different sites have mentioned that);
2) Usually along with adverts people block “tutorials” and help files;
3) None of the patches I have ever seen contained full advert list. If you are curious, you can see mine:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareyahoopagerYUrl]
“Finance Disclaimer”=”http://msg.edit.yahoo.com/config/jlb”
“Chat Adurl”=”http://noads.html”
“Change Room Banner”=”http://noads.html”
“Webcam Upload Ad”=”http://noads.html”
“Webcam Viewer Ad”=”http://noads.html”
“Webcam Viewer Ad Big”=”http://noads.html”
“Webcam Viewer Ad Bid”=”http://noads.html”
“Webcam Viewer Ad Medium”=”http://noads.html”
“Chat Transition Ad”=”http://noads.html”
“Conf Adurl”=”http://noads.html”
“Calendar Alert Ad URL”=”http://noads.html”
“IMVironment Ad URL”=”http://noads.html”
“Mail Alert Ad URL”=”http://noads.html”
“Personals Alert Ad URL”=”http://noads.html”
“News Alert Ad URL”=”http://noads.html”
“Auction Alert Ad URL”=”http://noads.html”
“Login Mobile Ad”=”http://noads.html”
“Messenger Ad”=”http://noads.html”
“N2Phone Adurl”=”http://noads.html”
“Stock Alert Ad URL”=”http://noads.html”

[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareyahoopagerLocale]
“Enable Messenger Ad”=dword:00000000

So I used my list (reg file) along with your patch. Could this be causing problems?

And if it isn’t too impudent to ask, could you include this list in your patch? It contains the most full list of adverts I’ve ever seen on any sire, it doesn’t slow down webcam (I replaced with “http://noads.html”, not “*” as you see), and it doesn’t bloack any help files. So I kinda think it’s the most suitable list. Not bragging, just I think having it in your patch would be just perfect.
Uh… Maybe I should add “please, please, please”? 🙂

Chat room list doesn’t seem to load anyhow, not to mention “properly”. You know, there was one guy who messed with “urls.xml”. He managed to get rid of main window’s ad, but chat room list wasn’t loading too. Topic about it is here: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/05/no-more-ads-in-yahoo-messenger.html.

Does you patch mess with .exe? Or only with “urls.xml”? Because it doesn’t look like you can go far with “urls”, since it blocks chat room list when you get rid of ad through it.

Shadowdeath,

I completely cleaned Y!M and re-installed to catch all possible packets in and out between my computer and Yahoo and got into detail of each packet. The packet blocked in my last hacked exe is the request sent to Yahoo to get the address where it can get all the nice feartures and the ads. To keep all features like Plug-ins, Audibles, Country list…I have to do in this order:
– start Y!M first in its original version, go through all features I want to use and all items the Preferences so Y!M can download all the scripts I will need and store in MessengerCache.
– clean IE cache.
– import the registry key to have some “*” and some “http://noad.html”
– copy the hacked urls.xml and set it to read-only.
– replace YahooMessenger.exe, this should be the last step.

I forgot the Audibles at the first time so I put the original exe back, run it and get all the Audibles then replace the exe with the hacked one again. I think now I have everything.

I get a hint about Yahoo message in 701: live with the ads or you may lose some nice features.
So say goodbye to the ads make sure you get everything you want.

[Edit] Comfirmed, can’t get the Chat room list with the hacked exe.

Your 360 problem might be a cookie issue.

Any news on any perfected ad blocking method?

The error could be caused by patching the wrong version of messenger.
Say the patch is designed to be used with Yahoo Messenger 8.0 701
and you use the patch on Yahoo Messenger 8.0 683 you could get
an error when you try and start the messenger as the Offsets the patch
changes maybe be different then the Offset it is suppose to change.

The Starting Offset for the Client_Ad Url in 8.0 683 is 3D2E4C
The Starting Offset for the Client_Ad Url in 8.0 701 is 3D2E54

Changing the value of even one Offset could cause the messenger
to have errors when you try and run the program.

As for the Drive error that you got, this could be due to the fact that
you may have more then one hard drive. If the patch is design to only
look for the messenger on the C drive and you are booted on using a
different drive then C ( meaning you have two Operation Systems )
and don’t have Yahoo Messenger installed on the C drive the error will
pop up because it can’t find the file it was told to look for in the folder
it was told to look for it in.