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General Category => Software => Topic started by: ahhmyeye! on October 04, 2002, 11:56:11 PM

Title: AOL Instant Messenger
Post by: ahhmyeye! on October 04, 2002, 11:56:11 PM

YYYYYYAAAYYY!!! After 3 weeks of ideas, screwing around and trying, I have finally found how to get rid of AIM\'s ads. And boy I tell ya, it was frickin\' easy.

Title: AOL Instant Messenger
Post by: Space Between on October 06, 2002, 01:34:45 AM

wtf???

Title: AOL Instant Messenger
Post by: SpudGunMan on October 15, 2002, 09:39:37 AM

so i guess the question is how?

Title: AOL Instant Messenger
Post by: Anonymous on October 17, 2002, 05:01:58 PM

you rename two files. forget the names... darn!

Title: AOL Instant Messenger
Post by: SpudGunMan on October 18, 2002, 02:33:03 PM

I guess i speak for all when i say ...then dont bother wasting time when you post a problem then skirt fixing the issue. Funny if you spent \"weeks\" to try to fix it you just forgot what the file names were

Title: AOL Instant Messenger
Post by: mid9tsun on October 25, 2002, 06:01:05 AM

Here ya go man, here\'s the instruks!

Exit AOL IM.

Click on the start menu, point to Find, and select Files or Folders.

In the Named box, type \"aim.odl\"

In the \"Look in\" pull-down menu, be sure to select the drive that stores AOL IM (usually the C: drive).

Click Find Now.

Once the file is found, save a copy of it by holding down the Ctrl key, then click and drag the aim.odl file to your desktop (or wherever you want to store the backup file).

Now click on aim.odl to select it in the Find window. Then hold the Shift key, right-click on the file, and select Open with.

In the Open With window, scroll down until you find Notepad and select it. Then click OK. The aim.odl file should open in Notepad.

Look for the following code:
on_group(5)
{
load_ocm advert required
}
on_group(11)
{
load_ocm advert required
}

Delete the above lines of code and save the file as \"aim.odl\". Make sure the file is saved in its original location.

Launch AOL IM, and the ads should be gone.

If it doesn\'t work

In case AOL IM doesn\'t work correctly when you delete the code listed above, try this.


Remember that backup file you created? Create another copy of it.

Now open one of those backup files in Notepad, using the same procedure as listed above.

Find the same code as listed above. You will add semicolons to the load_ocm lines. Modify the code so it reads:
on_group(5)
{
;    load_ocm advert required
}
on_group(11)
{
;    load_ocm advert required
}

Save the file as \"aim.odl\". Make sure the file is saved in its original location (not the location where you saved the backup).

Launch AOL IM, and the ads should be gone.