[jra101]

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]

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]

cool thanks
the button suddenly appeared a few days ago

[kEViNoPolY]

@ Sandoval: Look there:

news://alt.icq

Kevin

[Cynan]

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]

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>