Some Yahoo Messenger Tips for Yahoo Chatters

How to Run Multiple Copies of Yahoo Messenger

Yahoo messenger allow us to run multiple copies of Yahoo Messenger at the same time and you can login your multiple IDs at the same time. It can be possible manually with the help of registry. The changing of value in registry file will let you run multiple copies of yahoo messenger. The steps are below :

Click on Start>Run and type regedit and then look for HKEY_CURRENT_ USER\Software\yahoo\ pager\Test. Modify the binary value to 00000001.

How to change Yahoo Messenger Title Bar

Its possible to change the text appears at the top of the yahoo messenger window by editing the ymsgr.ini file. It is located in the program files\Yahoo! folder. So it better to find the file using search option. Open the file with the help of notepad or edit plus, change its caption with your favorite text. Save the file and close it. Restrat your yahoo messenger you will see the changes.

Tips to Remove Advertisements from Yahoo Messenger

Its possible to remove the advertisement from yahoo messenger. It works fine on yahoo messenger 9 version. I have just add one line in the file name "hosts". Here I blocked the url of ads with the help of local host and no yahoo ad appears on my yahoo messenger interface. Here are the steps, I used to block the ads on my yahoo messenger interface :

Before doing this, close your yahoo messenger.

Go to here : C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc

You will find a file name "hosts". Open it in notepad or edit plus or any other editors.
Add this "127.0.0.1 insider.msg.yahoo.com" after the line "127.0.0.1 localhost". Now restart your yahoo messenger.

If you want totally remove the ad box from your yahoo messenger interface, you can use the steps below :

Please backup your registry first. Now click on Start>Run and type regedit.

Go to here : HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Yahoo\pager\Locale

Right-click on "Enable Messenger Ad" located in the right pane. Set its default value from 1 to 0. Restart your yahoo messenger. You will not find any ad box in your yahoo messenger.