BLOCKING ADVERTISEMENTS IN YAHOO MESSENGER

Are you using yahoo messenger for Im and chatting with buddies and like me if you are boored with the ads from yahoo, that gets displayed amidst, then here’s a registry edit for windows users which’ll block the ads on yahoo messenger.

Create a new text file in notepad and copy following(under blockquote) to it.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Yahoo\Pager\YUrl]
“Chat Adurl”=””
“Conf Adurl”=””
“Messenger Ad”=””
“Webcam Viewer Ad”=””
“Webcam Viewer Ad Big”=””
“Webcam Viewer Ad Medium”=””
“Webcam Upload Ad”=””
“Change Room Banner”=””
“Personals Alert Ad URL”=””
“News Alert Ad URL”=””
“Mail Alert Ad URL”=””
“Stock Alert Ad URL”=””
“Auction Alert Ad URL”=””
“IMVironment Ad URL”=””
“Calendar Alert Ad URL”=””
“Chat Transition Ad”=””
“Chat Transition Ad”=””
“N2Phone Adurl”=””
“Login Mobile Ad”=””

Save the above file as adblocky.reg (u can give any name but .reg extension is compulsory)

Double click the .reg file adblocky.reg that you created now. 

Then click ok(yes) if asked for confirmation that’ll be added to registry.

Restart yahoo messenger.

It’s done now.Enjoy.