Shoutbox

why don't you people use a patch and let that msgplus setting alone... well for now, untill patchou finds a way around it.

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Originally posted by xiios
I found a workaround for this situation.

It appears that the banner keeps coming back with certain Regional and Language settings.

Start -> Settings -> Control panel
Regional and Language Options
 Regional Options
  Standards and formats
   --> set this to: English (United States)
Apply, OK

Exit MSN Messenger and restart it. Banner won't appear.

My setting was Estonian and the banner always appeared about 10 seconds after raising main Messenger window. I didn't test other settings thoroughly but it seems that the banner appears with most of them. Try Chinese (Hong Kong S.A.R)  and check out the banner

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this workaround doesn't work... I did everything you said - changed the language setting from Estonian (as you see, I'm Estonian too) to English US and restarted MSN, but the banner ghost still appeared

I should have tried this before...

Adding the line

127.0.0.1      rad.msn.com

to my hosts-file (in XP it is WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
and restarting messenger does the job for me.

No tweaking of language settings necessary

If u clicked hide adbanner in plus and it still shows up sometimes or u don't have plus and u wanna remove the adbanner try the adremoverpatch (for 6.2.0137) here: http://members.lycos.nl/livetab/patch/

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Originally posted by xiios
I should have tried this before...

Adding the line

127.0.0.1      rad.msn.com

to my hosts-file (in XP it is WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
and restarting messenger does the job for me.

No tweaking of language settings necessary

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Awsomez... i can only trust msgpus with my msn and not some thing that patches my exe or something. thanks for the fix worked like a charm!

t6hanks sunshine, it worked great...dus it still work if a new versioin is realesed like 6.3 or will a new patch b needed?

is it sumat rong wiv msg plus? or has msn tried to stop people from doing it?

Glad i could help u may37alliance U'll most likely need a new patch when MSN messenger releases a new version (this patch patched MSN messenger not plus)...but there hasnt been talk bout that comin so that will be a while i guess and who knows maybe plus will hide it again for u aswell then. It's most likely a bug....there have been more ppl complainin bout "hide adbanner" not workin

you could just make your  cantact list a big larger, it hides the banner then

I had the exact same problem. I mean, not when resizing the window, but when I simply left it open for like 10~15 secs, this weird "ghost-ad" kept showing up.

Note that I hadn't had any problem before. Maybe the problem appeared since I installed the Service Pack 2, I dunno exactly.

Anyway, thank you Sunshine.

Yeah thanks sunshine. I tryed everything. Mine started all of a sudden...

The patch worked though