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STEPS FOR ELIMINATING BANNER BOXES ON ICQ

Make sure ICQ is not Running.

1- Download Reshack from < http://www.rpi.net.au/~ajohnson/resourcehacker/ >

2- Look for Auto Update in your registry
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Mirabilis\ICQ\DefaultPrefs
And set the value to "No"

3- Delete the following files from your ICQ folder
icqateima32.dll (removes advertisement downloading)
icqateimg32.dll (removes the loading of images)
icqateres.dll (removes part of the advertisement function)

4- Open ICQCore.dll in Reshack.

4a Deploy the Dialog folder and open each numbered folder
The dialog boxes should be : 2503,2507,2512,2513,2514,2543,2560,2566

4b Click the banner box (dark Grey) and it will highlight the control for that box.

4c Change the last 2 numbers in that control to 0, 0 Example;
CONTROL "", 1070, "{9F9012BA-E55B-11D3-ADE7-0090270D8F00}", 0x50000000, 1, 158, 260, 38
Becomes
CONTROL "", 1070, "{9F9012BA-E55B-11D3-ADE7-0090270D8F00}", 0x50000000, 1, 158, 0, 0

4d Change the main dialog box size coordinates (at the top of the script) to
Ad box y coordinate +1. Example: for above control you take the 158 then
change the main dialog box y coordinate to 158+1 (159) So;
2503 DIALOGEX 0, 0, 262, 196
Becomes
2503 DIALOGEX 0, 0, 262, 159

NOTE The last four digits are position/size coordinates - first set is x,y
position, the second set is x,y size.

4e Compile the script

4f Repete for all dialogs with banner ads then save the file (Have a backup
of ICQCore.dll just in case something goes wrong)

I have an edited ICQCore.dll (For 2000b v4.60) here < http://www.govital.net/~soz/ICQCore.dll >

I am unsure of older versions but in ICQ2000b Beta 4.63 build 3279
"ICQSearc.dll" Dialog 2008 must be altered to remove the banner at the
top of the Find User > Add to List. It's as easy as removing them in ICQcore.dll.

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Another solution I've heard of is to run "Ads-Off". Hope this all helps.

edit - formatting.

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This message has been edited by Observer on March 17, 2001 at 02:59 PM

/me loves his open source reverse engineered programs

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