Getting rid of those damn rollover ads in AOL Instant Messenger!

**Angdvl089** · 02-22-2008 12:25 AM

Make sure that AIM is completely exited. Don't just sign off, you need to exit AIM completely. Either click on the buddylist on AIM menu>exit AIM, or right-click on the icon on the bottom-right in the system tray on "exit AIM".

C:\Program Files\AIM6\services\imApp\your_version\content\bl\ aolBuddyListAd.js
Open up this file in notepad, hit ctrl+f, and search for adcontainer. The first result is the one you want to change--change collapsed=false to collapsed=true. Save and close the file.

C:\Program Files\AIM6\services\imApp\your_version\resources\e n-US\strings.xml
Open up this file in notepad, hit ctrl+f and search for bl.aimadrotateinterval. Make the four lines look like this:
<string name="bl.AimAdRotateInterval">0</string>
<string name="bl.adMagic">0</string>
<string name="bl.adHeight">0</string>
<string name="bl.adWidth">0</string>

Save and close the file. That's it!

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Tried it and it works flawlessly. So easy to do and definitely worth it.

Note: This only works on AIM Version 6 and higher.