• October 23, 2003 •
Remove Advertising from MSN Messenger 6.1
If you downloaded MSN Messenger 6.1, you might want to remove the advertising that is placed at the bottom of the main messenger window.
I will give you some details to do it manually. To edit the msnmsgr.exe file, you'll need a HEX editor. I found the freeware Hex Editor XVI32 perfectly suited for this task. Thers is no installation, just download the file, create a folder on your hard drive, unzip the XVI32.zip file there, and run the XVI32.exe file.
When you have the HEX editor running, follow these steps:
- Make sure you are not running messenger. Right-click its icon in the system tray, and from the menu select Exit
- Now you'll need to locate the messenger executable msnmsgr.exe, it will normally be in \Program Files\MEN Messenger\
- Make a backup of the file. Right-click msnmsgr.exe and from the menu choose Copy. Now right-click on an empty area in the same folder, and select Paste from the menu. The backup will be named Copy of msnmsgr.exe. If you ever want to get back to the original file, simply delete msnmsgr.exe, and then rename Copy of msnmsgr.exe to msnmsgr.exe
- From the menu in XVI32, choose File > Open, locate msnmsgr.exe, and open it
- From the menu, select Address > Goto, select hexadecimal, and enter D72BB, press OK
- The value selected will be 74, simply type EB to replace it (so 74 becomes EB)
- Repeat step 5 & 6, but for the value to search for now enter D72FF (step 6 stays identical)
- When done select File > Save from the menu, and exit XVI32
- Reopen Messenger 6.1, now without the ads!
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