I installed last days the last version of Yahoo! Messenger (9.0.0.1912). I really like and i’m also recommend it.

I’m the man who works in a minimalistic way so my first setting on my new yahoo messenger was to remove all messenger window components i didn’t use. All window components can be easily disabled from menus except one, ads.

I start wandering how can i remove that. For oldest version you can find lots of patchs and little programs who do this job with 2 clicks, but  not in this case. For this new version i found here a triky thing to do. You will not disable the window component, you just block the ad server, a little funny way to deal with this problem.

So… to do that, go to your computer, c: or the drive where your windows is installed and navigate to this file:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts (no extension, open it with notepad or any text editor)

Next, add this line: 127.0.0.1 insider.msg.yahoo.com at the bottom of the file.
Save it and restart your Yahoo Messenger.

It’s working, right? Yes but it’s a little funny because it also blocks some another features like “last activity” or offline messages.

Have a nice day!