Remove MSN Messenger Side Tabs

Filed in: Microsoft, Tips n Tricks — June 10th, 2005

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I have show you how to remove advertisement in MSN Messenger. Now I am going to show you how to remove the MSN Messenger side tabs. :)

Remove MSN Messenger Side Tabs
Before: annoying and useless side tabs
After: Tabs gone!

There are two ways to remove the tabs:

  1. Manually: (advance user only)
    Open registry editor(regedit), navigate to “HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ MSNMEssenger \ PerPassportSettings \ random_number“. Change the value of “DisableTabs” to 1 (default is 0). Done.

    Note: the random_number is a series of numeric. You may get a few differet numbers under “PerPasswordSettings”, change all “DisableTabs” value under them.
  2. Auto: (Recommended)
    Download Tab Enabler/Disabler for MSN Messenger 7 from Mess.be. Extract the downloaded zip file, run “ted.exe”(tab disabler).

    Tab disabler

    Enter your MSN Messenger ID (e.g.: yourname@hotmail.com) into the text field, then click “Disable tabs” to remove MSN Messenger side tabs. To restore back the tabs, run the Tab disabler again but click “Enable tabs” instead.

[ source ] Thanks, cwwong

My two cents

After removed advertisements and side tabs, this is my MSN Messenger look (contact list collapsed). Clean huh? :)

Clean MSN Messenger - no ads and tabs

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  • thanks
    worked for me

    bad dave
    he or she must delete your email so that you can delete him or her
  • big dave
    hi ive added a contact i shunt av and need 2 get rid of it for ever how can i do this i no ya can block and delete but it can be put
    bk on i want 2 permanetly get rid pls help
  • Suni
    i recommend you to use this other one..
    MSN 7 Universal Patcher++ v0.8
    oneclick patch...
  • Baba
    Good job, thank you.
  • wayne
    like the idea of removing tabs
    now for the big question ,how do you remove names permantly on my msn list ,i know how to delete and block them but can removing names be done as i have heaps of names that are no longer relevant
    hope some one can come up with a solution
    thanx
  • LcF
    @Aber Sadu: yes, the same instrucction has been discussed in the previous comment.
  • Aber Sadu
    I dont think you even need an app to do this, I follow the instructions from http://www.messengertools.net/News/article/sid=125.html
  • Well, I think it's so good, although my msn is in spanish ('cause i'm mexican) it works. This software is too good, that now the tabs are out! Thanks.. and congratulations!
  • S
    help! i cannot figure out how to delete all unwanted contacts from the privacy section in msn messenger. you delete them from the contact list but they remain listed under privacy.

    tools > options > privacy

    they remain and you cannot delete 95% of them. i want them gone!

    how do i do it?
  • rick
    hi again, im asking , how would i remove or disable the MSN Messenger banner and the search bar from the bottom part of the screen?
  • Tp
    An even easyer way is to click Tools->Settings->Security-> Select the "This computer is also used by others, dont show my categories" !!
  • rick
    yo whusssup man, thank you for this peice of information.... i really needed that because it really bothered me so freking much, that stupid side bar. wow

    YOUR A GENIUS, thanks a lot
  • Cesar
    Excelente !!! Los usuarios de menor experiencia necesitan todo el apoyo para conllevar un uso personalizado del MSN Messenger.
    Muchísimas Gracias !!!
  • Ricardo
    Its possible to remove and add several of the options of the MSN Mesenger,

    I recomend MESSPATCH from www.mess.be

    or A-PATCH from www.aptch.tk.

    The A-PATCH have more options and works with all versions.

    Have a look on this link

    http://home.loqal.no/~erikeinu/patch/patches.html
  • Carine
    clear steps to demonstrate the methods! Thanks!!
  • Mibe
    Also functional on Msn 7.5 official release. Great work!
  • LcF
    tasha: right click on the contact and click "delete contact" ?
  • tasha
    hi i am wondering how u can delete a contact off of your signing in list because i have other peoples names on there and i cant get rid if them and it is getting to full up

    thanx for your help
  • João
    That sounds fun, but I would prefer to remove just the four advertisement tabs and leave the contacts' and the alerts'. How can I do that?
  • Lovely registry hack. LoL! Neva noticed the controls were in there. Yeay, now can see more of a nick since everyone's nick is normally long. :)
  • LcF
    @guy: you said Microsoft Antispyware removed MSN Messenger's ads?! That's ironic!
  • guy
    i dont actually know how i did it but i ran microsoft spyware beta and i think i quarantine or deleted the ads on msn and my msn tuns out to be clean (no tabs) no my space link, no ads on the bottom.
    imagine the old msn look.clean and functional :)
  • Cool was thinking about to remove those useless tabs, thanks for the proggy!
  • Haha... I thought the same thing too because I didn't do anything to my MSN and how come I do not have tab. Then found out actually I already set that particular option. :)
  • kahsoon
    hahaha!! :lol: luckily i read sapiensbryan's comment 1st...don't even need 5 second then problem solved.
  • LcF
    @SapiensBryan: you are right, I totally forgot the option. Was wondering how come my office's MSN messenger does not has tabs. :P
  • Just to add an alternative, my solution to remove the tab, is:-

    Go to Tools > Options > Security > Enable the "This is a shared computer so don't display my tabs" option.

    No app required. :)
  • Yeah it work fine for me Thanks. Ive been trying to remove the tab and ad. Finally i foun dthe solutions here =) Thanks
  • WOw... It's really cool now that I can get to control the msgr...
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