Removing ICQ 2000b SMS Button

[jra101 0]

Anyone know of a way to permanetly remove the annoying SMS button at the top of the ICQ 2000b window?

 

I removed the Partner folder in the ICQ 2000 dir and the button didn't show up the next time I restarted ICQ but I checked the ICQ dir a minute later and it had recreated the Partner folder and the next time I restarted ICQ the button was there.

 

Anyone know of a way to stop it?

 

Thanks,

 

Jason A.

 

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[kEViNoPolY 1]

To remove that SMS logo, close ICQ and go to the ICQ\Partner folder and delete the Partner.xml file. Then make a new file named Partner.xml and set it as read only.

 

Kevin

 

[This message has been edited by kEViNoPolY (edited 11 February 2001).]

[Galilee 0]

cool thanks

the button suddenly appeared a few days ago

[Guest]

kevinpoly..

 

how the hell did you know that?

[kEViNoPolY 1]

@ Sandoval: Look there:

 

news://alt.icq

 

Kevin

[Cynan 0]

How about the adverts that can appear under the Send Message box ? its not happened to me, but a few friends suffer from this.

 

Anyway to get rid of those ?

 

Thanks.

 

--Cynan.

[DocSilly 0]

I found a nice howto on:

 

news://alt.chat-programs.icq

 

Quote:

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">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 Go through each of the Dialogs till you see one with

a banner box.

 

4b Click the banner box 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)</font>