Are you afraid of using Paltalk? Well, not anymore. But first, I want to talk a bit about Paltalk.
Paltalk is an internet chat service for text, voice and video chatting. The Paltalk Messenger program is in a free, banner-supported format as well as an ad-free version that requires users to subscribe. Unlikely other Yahoo or MSN messenger, Paltalk implemented huge advertising and cause your system runs slow and sometime it crashes. I’ll show you the trick to disable them.
1. Log-in with Administrator account
2. Click Start
3. Select My Computer
4. Doubl-click on C:\ Drive -> Windows -> system32 -> drivers -> etc -> open hosts file with Notepad
5. Copy “127.0.0.1 advertising.paltalk.com” without quotation marks
6. Paste under 127.0.0.1 localhost
7. Voila, you can enter into any rooms without ads disturbing you
Click this Link to find out how to block other ads besides Paltalk.
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9 Comment(s)
By Lisa on Jul 11, 2007 | Reply
Weeee thank you it works great!
By Rog on Aug 16, 2007 | Reply
Forgive my pig ignorance but
1. How does one Log in with ‘Administrator account’ ?
and 4. sytem 32 > Drivers > then what
wheres the ‘hosts’ file
Perhaps in XP or even 2000 but I have Me and no such file as Hosts is to be found - please help!
By Jessica on Aug 27, 2007 | Reply
Thank you! No one else could give me a way so this definitely helped.
By WindowsTips.org on Sep 2, 2007 | Reply
Rog: Windows 95/98/Me c:\windows\hosts
By Roy on Oct 21, 2007 | Reply
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The method for getting rid of ads on paltalk doesn’t work as theres no ‘host’ file in Systems32>Drivers and what ect-> means I don’t know. Do we get answers as I don’t seem to be the only one with this problem.
RV.
By WindowsTips.org on Oct 27, 2007 | Reply
Hi Roy,
You haven’t opened up the “ect” folder yet. Therefore, you won’t see “hosts” file.
By Nick on Dec 20, 2007 | Reply
I can edit the host file to add 127.0.0.1 advertising.paltalk.com but still not working on my XP. Any suggestions is much appreciated. Reboot required or not ?
By ignorant on Jan 7, 2008 | Reply
I still have paltalk ads. Did not work. I am running XPsp2. Any futher ideas?
By Jim on Jan 15, 2008 | Reply
Hi Roy.
First of all, it’s the etc file. Click on it. You will see the host file. (Files are in alphabetical order)Click on the Host file icon and you will be given a choice of which program to open it with. Click on Notepad and it will open. Follow the instructions carefully