Annoyed by ads in Live Messenger?

[Pleb]

Easy fix:

for Vista users, here are instructions on how to edit the HOSTS file: http://geekswithblogs.net/thibbard/archive/2006/12/13/ChangingYourHostsFileInVista.aspx


for XP/2000 users:

open the HOSTS file in c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc in a text editor (notepad)

after the last line (which is probably '127.0.0.1 localhost') add the following 6 lines:

127.0.0.1 rad.msn.com #user edit - MSN Adclient DLL
127.0.0.1 arc1.msn.com #user edit - MSN Adclient DLL
127.0.0.1 arc2.msn.com #user edit - MSN Adclient DLL
127.0.0.1 arc3.msn.com #user edit - MSN Adclient DLL
127.0.0.1 arc4.msn.com #auser edit - MSN Adclient DLL
127.0.0.1 arc5.msn.com #user edit - MSN Adclient DLL


Save the file.

Restart Messenger.

No more ads (h)

(rad.msn.com, arc1.msn.com etc are sites/servers where the msn ads are hosted...

The lines that you add into the HOSTS file tell any program which wants to contact those sites (ie messenger when it wants to display ads to you) to look for them on your own computer instead of accessing the actual locations on the internet.)

I take no responsibility for anything bad or otherwise happening as a result of implementing the above fix!

[tim|away]

Thank you for sharing that. These bloody advertisements have annoyed me for quite a while now. I was always too lazy to do research on how to get rid of them.

[Dymond]

Pleb you rule!!

[Zeus]

Yeah Pleb, you come up with some good shit bud (Y)

[deadcert]

Thank you, pleb (f):)

[PunkRock]

Thanks :) No More Shitty Advertisements.

[Pleb]

Unfortunately I can't edit the first post any longer, so in response to a message I got:

for Vista users, here are instructions on how to edit the HOSTS file: http://geekswithblogs.net/thibbard/archive/2006/12/13/ChangingYourHostsFileInVista.aspx

[Colonel Sanders]

Hmm you know Pleb thats kinda strange...I haven't looked at taht Vista link yet.

But I used Vista and edited the Hosts file just fine using the XP method originally posted and it worked just fine. However I tried to do the same thing to my buddies comp who also uses Vista and it did not work, was kinda dumbfounded.

[Pleb]

Hmm you know Pleb thats kinda strange...I haven't looked at taht Vista link yet.

But I used Vista and edited the Hosts file just fine using the XP method originally posted and it worked just fine. However I tried to do the same thing to my buddies comp who also uses Vista and it did not work, was kinda dumbfounded.

from what I read I think that the HOSTS file is only editable by Admin in Vista...I'm not positive tho cos I've never done it :P