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A little WLM / Hotmail trick

Jul 4, 2006 Tech

Well I worked out a nice little trick to get a nice clean WLMail / Hotmail interface (aka without ads or ugly “action cancelled” / ad frame page time outs)

this tweak / hack was “designed for” & tested in IE, so im not sure if it’ll work in other browsers.

Here’s what my layout looks like atm (yeah, I never liked that reading pane )

ok, here’s how to do it..

add the following line to your hosts file:

• 127.0.0.1 rad.msn.com

(make sure there’s a space between the two)

This will effectively make the ads for WLMail / Hotmail timeout

You could leave it at this but you will get an ugly box at the top with an action cancelled message in it each time you load the page up, if you want to get rid of that too, follow these steps:

• open C:\Windows\system32\shdoclc.dll in Reshacker

• open “2110″ and look for the resource “NAVCANCL.HTM”.

once you open that you’ll see the html code for the “Action Cancelled” page you get in IE
now if you know html well enough you could design your own page (but do remember it will show up in frames that timeout too so it wont always look good if you design a full page). otherwise you ca just create a blank page.

now just to be safe, instead of deleting everything that’s in there you can just “comment out” the existing html, this allows you to put back the original page if you decide you want it back.

to comment out the existing html, find this line:

• and change to this: (remove the spacing between the < & the !)

  < !--

  finally, find this line:

  and change it to this:

  -->

• compile the script, save the file, and replace the original with the modified file using Replacer