Start by opening up your Skype, and selecting "tools" > "change language" > and then right at the bottom you have "edit skype language file"
Unfortunately, there is no apatch fix for Skype, but we can confuse the hell out of it and trick it into loading a fictional language which results in no adverts! Most MSN users have probably heard of A Patch which basically hacks the MSN software and removes all the adverts. While it's a fully featured application, it still holds the main drawbacks that MSN messenger had in terms of adverts. Since Microsoft decided to close MSN messenger many users are moving to Skype. The OLD method: Changing the language file It will ask for Administrator confirmation which overrides the permission. Once you have finished editing it, you can copy it back into your etc folder and overwrite the existing one. *Permission problems when editing your hosts can be avoided by either adjusting the permissions for your hosts file (not recommended) or saving a copy of your hosts file and editing that one. In retrospect, this method may well have worked right from day one but remember folks, we hate ads here at The Server Centre so if those pesky nasties show up again, do check back here for an update ) Once saved, restart Skype and you're advert free!īasically, what we've done is told your pc (and skype) to look for the ads on your local computer instead of the live ad server, where they obviously don't exist, which results in NO ADS! An interestign side effecct is you also have no banner ads in your browser for sites like ebay etc.
These lines need to go at the very bottom after any existing entries like this (as an example): Hosts file for removing adverts from Skype and your PC To do this you need to edit the "hosts" file typically found in following folder on your pc:Įditing this file is easy*, you simply right click and open it with notepad (or other text editer) and add copy/paste the line from this file: The new solution: You need to modify your hosts file and trick Skype into looking for the adverts in the wrong place. We checked and rechecked the language file method below and all was well so we did a bit of tinkering to see what was has actually changed and it appears that Skype now reads the default language from your PC when you try to load a fictional language that does not exist. UPDATE: After many months of ad-free chatting using the language file method (see below for the old method), Skype suddenly started showing adverts in the chat window again, BIG UGLY NASTY ones. How to remove adverts from Skype (like apatch) Updated 30th January 2014 due to ads showing again in chat window
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