Remove MSN Messenger Side Tabs
Filed in: Microsoft, Tips n Tricks — June 10th, 2005
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. 
Before: annoying and useless side tabs
After: Tabs gone!
There are two ways to remove the tabs:
- 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. - Auto: (Recommended)
Download Tab Enabler/Disabler for MSN Messenger 7 from Mess.be. Extract the downloaded zip file, run “ted.exe”(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?
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June 10th, 2005 at 1:57 pm
WOw… It’s really cool now that I can get to control the msgr…
June 10th, 2005 at 2:25 pm
Yeah it work fine for me Thanks. Ive been trying to remove the tab and ad. Finally i foun dthe solutions here =) Thanks
June 10th, 2005 at 2:38 pm
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.
June 10th, 2005 at 4:10 pm
@SapiensBryan: you are right, I totally forgot the option. Was wondering how come my office’s MSN messenger does not has tabs.
June 10th, 2005 at 4:26 pm
hahaha!!
luckily i read sapiensbryan’s comment 1st…don’t even need 5 second then problem solved.
June 10th, 2005 at 7:10 pm
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.
June 10th, 2005 at 8:04 pm
Cool was thinking about to remove those useless tabs, thanks for the proggy!
June 10th, 2005 at 10:41 pm
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
June 10th, 2005 at 11:25 pm
@guy: you said Microsoft Antispyware removed MSN Messenger’s ads?! That’s ironic!
June 12th, 2005 at 2:03 am
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.
June 13th, 2005 at 6:55 pm
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?
August 1st, 2005 at 5:35 am
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
August 1st, 2005 at 9:41 am
tasha: right click on the contact and click “delete contact” ?
August 31st, 2005 at 4:53 am
Also functional on Msn 7.5 official release. Great work!
September 13th, 2005 at 2:07 pm
clear steps to demonstrate the methods! Thanks!!
September 14th, 2005 at 3:31 am
Its possible to remove and add several of the options of the MSN Mesenger,
I recomend MESSPATCH from http://www.mess.be
or A-PATCH from http://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
October 18th, 2005 at 8:25 pm
Excelente !!! Los usuarios de menor experiencia necesitan todo el apoyo para conllevar un uso personalizado del MSN Messenger.
Muchísimas Gracias !!!
October 30th, 2005 at 8:28 am
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
November 2nd, 2005 at 10:15 pm
An even easyer way is to click Tools->Settings->Security-> Select the “This computer is also used by others, dont show my categories” !!
November 4th, 2005 at 1:55 pm
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?
November 23rd, 2005 at 2:35 am
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?
January 5th, 2006 at 12:19 pm
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!
March 18th, 2006 at 7:45 pm
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
March 18th, 2006 at 8:04 pm
@Aber Sadu: yes, the same instrucction has been discussed in the previous comment.
March 19th, 2006 at 3:54 pm
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
April 28th, 2006 at 9:19 pm
Good job, thank you.
February 13th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
i recommend you to use this other one..
MSN 7 Universal Patcher++ v0.8
oneclick patch…
March 8th, 2007 at 4:14 am
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
January 15th, 2008 at 12:19 am
thanks
worked for me
bad dave
he or she must delete your email so that you can delete him or her