Here is how to remove Ad Banners in ICQ 2000a & 2000b

Both these techniques are working, but in case you **** up (hehe) make sure you keep a backup of the renamed files.

First, the Banners in your message windows
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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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Second, the SMS message at the top of the ICQ main window

Close ICQ

Go to the dir where ICQ is installed and enter the /partner/ dir.
there you'll find a partner.xml file (if you don't see the .xml extension, make sure you unhide the "known file types extensions" in your folder options)
backup the file and erase the original
create a blank text file, rename it to partner.xml and make it read only via the file properties.

Start ICQ, et voila!! all ads are GONE FOR GOOD


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thanks for the very helpful tip
right now i cannot confirm it works 100% but ill try it as soon as I can

big props!!
nice one man!
it worked
especially thanks for the edited ICQCORE.dll!

you tha man!!!

d'oh, missed this one while working my way up from older to newer posts

You should add the following:

To remoove the SMS banner at the top of ICQ:

Go into your ICQ folder, then to the Partner folder (icq/partner)

rename partner.xml to something like partner.xmx (something unrecognized by the OS).

create a new text file, leave it blank and name it partner.xml (ignore message about files become unusable or screwing your system)

restart ICQ.

there should be no SMS button at the top of ICQ now.

TheDude

If you do it the way TheDude says make sure you put the Read-Only attribute.

Also the DLL file isn't working, I can't seem to download it.

I removed the link because there are other methods. VoodooExtreme has a link to one, and there is a link to one in this thread.

[This message has been edited by Busby (edited 18 March 2001).]

There is another solution. The wonderful lads at TNT have done all the work for you, in a single file.
you can get it here

Thank you for showing me how to remove the ad Banners in ICQ 2000b. I have done as you said and it works great. There is one question I would like to ask tho. In the window where you are sending the message (dialog box 2507), there is a hard rule between the "More" button and the options below. Right now, it shows the Hard rule without pressing the "More" button, is there a way to change it so that the hard rule appears when the other options appear? Thanks.

Vegetto^o^

Thanks alot dude!

Keep up the great work..

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is it just me or does sound disappear afterwards? that 'uh oh' on incoming messages is gone now, how do i get it back? i'm sure it's in one of those 3 dll's that got deleted

No...the sounds are wav files.....located in the "sounds" directory
:P
Make sure your not in any mode other than online or you dont hear em...
I still get them after doing this process....cept i just used a nice little hack....:P
sorry if this of no help

heh, i know sounds are *.wav files and the sounds folder is still there, but after following those instructions and restarting icq, the sound dissapeared...i'm stumped and thought maybe it was one of those *.dll files that messed with it...i guess not. *sigh*

good stuff

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No-ads ICQCore for latest version (2000b, v4.65, build 3281)

Edit: fixed it, should work fine now

[This message has been edited by *Iblis* (edited 10 April 2001).]

Your Core has alot of dialogs not properly re-sized, i wouldn't suggest downloading this core.

ok, sorted. that'll teach me for not testing it properly

[This message has been edited by *Iblis* (edited 10 April 2001).]

Thanks