Yahoo Messenger is a great tool for instant messaging (IM) communications. It has some great features than other competing IM applications and it is one of the most widely used IM client.

Even if you love the capabilities of features of Yahoo Messenger I’m sure you would hate the way advertisements are displayed at the bottom of the Yahoo Messenger window that consumes quite a bit of screen real-estate and there are no built-in ways to hide the ads.

There is a tiny little program that you can download that will remove the ads from Yahoo Messenger. “Yahoo Messenger Ad Destroy” is a 326 KB executable that patches your local installation of Yahoo Messenger to not display those annoying ads. Follow these steps to remove advertisements from Yahoo Messenger.

Step-1:

Download the “Yahoo Messenger Ad Destroy” program.

Step-2:

Unzip the downloaded file and launch the program.

Step-3:

You’ll get a similar window like above. Click on the “Browse” button and locate the Yahoo Messenger folder on your local hard drive. Alert: There might be a Yahoo folder on your C: drive if you have multiple drives. Make sure to locate the “Yahoo” folder that has a “Messenger” folder underneath.

Step-4:

Once the folder is located Ad Destroy will display some meta information like above. As you can see, you would need .NET Framework 2.0 installed on your local machine. Click on the “Patch” button.

Step-5:

Ad Destroy will display a confirmation that “YIM Restarted!”. Once you see the message your Yahoo Messenger will restart and there are no advertisements anymore.

Pretty simple! If you have any questions regarding this please make sure to ask us in comments.