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Well, my actual purpose was to provide working .exe. As for the registry file – you may edit it the way you want it to be. As for me – I’ve never faced ANY problems with it in ANY version of YIM. Only key in which “noads” is truly needed is “Webcam ad big”. for all the other keys you may use evverything you want. However, if you would use an asterisk next to “Webcam ad big”, you webcam will be connecting to server longer, and you may expereince freezes while video conference. That’s a fact. As for the other keys – modify them to match your needs best, but I’ve never experienced any kinds of problems with my registry file.
And I truly wonder why am I the only one who doesn’t get “Action Cancelled” messages.ShadowdeathMemberWell, I can say that I’m super surprised that you still have ad window showing with “Messenger Ad” being as “noads.html”, because I don’t see the ad banner window at all. You say that if I type any blank page adress, it will keep on showing empty banner window, but to me it doesn’t. Quite a surprise. I edited .exe and applied registry file on builds 701 and 711, deleting each completely before installing new version, and still don’t see an empty banner space. Strange, strange, never experienced that problem. I won’t reapload the patch I think, I’m pretty sure that everybody can change this key to asterisk, if they will experience that problem, so no worries I guess. As for next time, I will consider it, thank you.
ShadowdeathMemberOk, I think I may have got an idea on why it shows “myname mylastname” instead of name itself. It prevents messenger from writing “urls.xml”, yes. And as we all know, “urls” is needed to retrieve ad, right? Again, as far as I know, YIM retrieves name from profile, so maybe along with adverts it fails to retrieve name from profile as well? What do you think? Could it be possible? Because it’s only as far as I can get, if problem isn’t here, then I don’t know where to look at.
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Well, ok, I’m a dumbass. It turned out I didnt fill my name in my account… Weird, usually I always do. Anyway, sorry for buggin.. Sheesh, I feel such an idiot, lol.ShadowdeathMemberI got advised on editing .exe anyway, and I had to look for other ways since modifying “urls” didn’t seem to work for me anymore, even after reinstallation. Strange, considering that I washed all messenger remains from “Documents and Settings” to registry. Anybody came up with “myname mylastname”? I still can’t figure out where should I input my name for it to finally show. Oh, and aneagle, what did you mean by “still needs a messenger ad key in the registry”?
ShadowdeathMemberAneagle, why do you still mess with urls? What for? Not advertising myself, but I’ve uploaded a patch – change .exe, double click on reg file and you’re done. No need to clear IE Temp files, mess with “urls”, mess with plugins and audibies. I just don’t get it, why bothering with all this? Am I missing something? But my patch works with no bugs. Well, as far as I know.
I’ve uploaded my patch (It doesn’t ruin any chat lists, Launchcast or anything else. Still, if there will be any problems, report please):
http://rapidshare.de/files/31640175/Anti-Banner_Patch.rar.htmlP.S. Just noticed, a HORRIBLE bugs in “News” plugin scrolling. Pry they were in 701 version also. Even checked if they are related to my patch – they aren’t. Up-Down pointers in news scrolling don’t work, only way is to use keyboard arrows or mouse wheel, picking news category from the list is possible only from keyboard, if you point mouse, list is closing. And that’s final version…
ShadowdeathMemberI’m uploading 100% working patch for build 711 now (slowly, using dialup), and in a meantime I have a few questions:
1) What changes did you see from 701 to 711?
2) In “Status”, instead of nickname it shows “myname mylastname”, I don’t mind it showing my name, but HOW do I get my name to show there?! It is written in my profile, but still, instead of name messenger shows “myname mylastname”. So how do I put my name there?ShadowdeathMemberChat 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.
ShadowdeathMemberWait, 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:00000000So 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”? 🙂ShadowdeathMemberI’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.
ShadowdeathMemberThat’s strange. No, after I installed 701 menu item highlight was purple instead of 683’s grey. And it has nothing to do with the skins, if only original “Indigo” skin was changed.
Yes! I checked, it’s in graphics! Thanks! Here:
C:Program FilesYahoo!SharedGraphicsIndigomenuitem.bmp
It’s purple, not grey like in 683. Thank you very much!
ShadowdeathMemberPeople, there is one bug (?) in build 683 and 701. Maybe earlier versions too. When I send SMS to someone, then go to “Save as”, in instant messaging it saves conversation in text files, but it saves SMS messages only as a blank files. Can somebody fix it, so it would save SMS conversations just as usual instant messaging conversations?
ShadowdeathMemberI have a question. You noticed that menu scrolling in 701 is different, right? I mean the color. If in 683 when I was scrolling through menu it was a simple grey, in 701 it’s beautiful purple. Point is – I want to have it in 683. This isn’t made in .exe file, so it’s in some other file. Sorry, to the point again – what file should I copy from 701 to 683 to have a purple color in menu scrolling? I hope I made myself clear. Thanks.
And forgot to ask – will it cause any bugs?
ShadowdeathMemberIf you mean changing “enable”” to “Enable”, as it is case sensitive, then whenever I change “enable” it ruins:
1) “Send SMS” function
2) No way to choose “Home country” in “Preferences” -> “Connection”
3) No “Voice Bar” in “Show/hide”So touching this “enable” part in .exe ain’t exactly an option. Besides, I don’t really want to loose clickable status also, only thing I really am ready to sacrifice is headphones icon. I just have a very huge program collection, and prefer not to have many bugs in it, so yes, getting stick to 8.0.0.683 then. Thanks people, sorry for disturbing.
ShadowdeathMemberDo you use any anti-banners for Yahoo! Messenger? If you do, that is what may be causing problem. In registry entries, people usually replace “webcam viewer ad big” and “webcam viewer ad bid” with “*”. And that is just what makes camera freeze. If you use that advert-removing registry keys, simply open the reg file and instead of “*”, type any non-existing URL next to “webcam viewer ad big” and “webcam viewer ad bid”. Like “http://noads.htm”, and it should prevent camera from freezing. That is, of course, if your problem is related to registry keys, and you use reg file to remove banners. If no, the source of the problem is somewhere else. I only know that many people have problems with freezing camera because of this “*” in the registry file that they use to remove banners.
ShadowdeathMemberYour hexed .exe is great, but there is a bug in it. if you choose “Yahoo! Search” to be in the main window, it appears… well, you have to see it yourself. Just resize your main window and you’ll see that search is broken. Is there any way to fix it? Because your .exe is the best I’ve seen so far. And if you’ll solve the problem, please, type a way to do it. Maybe it’ll work on upcoming versions also.
P.S. By the way, after I posted this message I’ve noticed that you already discuss this topic. About rollback – yes, I think I’ll have to stick to build 683, but I kinda don’t wanna get stick to it forever.
P.P.S. Is there an .exe in which only headphones icon is broken and no other bugs? I pretty much don’t care about headphones icon, but other bugs are too messy.
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