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ICQ Lite 1253 solution to remove ads completely



~ solution for ADVANCED USERS (full removal)


Here is a complete and hopefully simple step-by-step guide:

1.) First, shut down ICQ Lite if it's running

2.) Click "Start"/"Run..." and key in "regedit"

3.) Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mirabilis\ICQ\ICQLite and change the values of LiteBannersActive, LiteCLBannerActive and LiteInterOpActive to "0".

4.) Now right-click on key "ICQLite" (in the left pane) and select "Permissions"

5.) In the permissions window, click the "Advanced" button

6.) Now, deselect the first checkbox which says something about inherited permissions and click "Remove" in the appearing dialog, which will remove all entries in the list, then click the "Apply" button. Why? This will remove all permissions set on this key and disable inheritance. We have successfully blocked ALL access to this key and it's values.

7.) Now we have to re-enable value reading so ICQ can find out what we think of its advertisments. Click "Add", key in "Everyone" and click "OK". Now just select the "Grant" of the second entry ("read values") in the list and click "OK". Close the other permission windows with "OK". Note that we gave Everyone access to this key, for simplicity reasons - this will be no big security issue ;-)

Now you can test this by simply trying to change the value of one of the entries to anything else with regedit - you should receive an error which says the new value could not be written.

8.) Additionally, you can get rid of the welcome screen by opening HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mirabilis\ICQ\NewOwners\<YOUR_ICQ_NUMBER>\ICQLite and changing ShowWelcomeScreen to "0" - ICQLite should not be running or it will re-enable this value!

Start and enjoy your new bannerless ICQ Lite.


~ solution for NEWBIES (partially removal)

Here is a complete and hopefully simple step-by-step guide:

To remove the top ad's in 1253 goto your LiteDataFiles directory. Delete the files Banners.xml clbanner.xml and psearch.xml.

Next put a folder for each you deleted. Yes put .xml just as if it was a file. This will prevent ICQ from auto updating the file.

This will replace the ICQ Lite ad with an ICQ Lite logo, and remove banner ad's from you message.

You can also delete climage.html and create the folder climage.html in that place. This leaves an ugly white box though so it is best leaving the logo.

 


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INFO: this patch might work to other versions of ICQ but we haven't tested it..
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