If you haven't already made modifications to your installation's "icbmui.ocm" file, you can replace it with the one
here to hide the ads for good. The ad space will also collapse and allow any expression wallpaper to "fill in the gap", like this:
To those who already have modified icbmui.ocm, here are the offsets you need to change (grab a copy of
XVI32 or better if you need a hex editor):
1. Goto address $14B0A (CTRL+G in XVI32, hexadecimal, absolute address). You should see "6A
01 68 6F 07 00 00 FF...". Change the second byte pair to "00", so that it now reads "6A
00 68 6F 07 00 00 FF...".
2. Goto address $12E82. You should see "6F
07 00 00 FF B6 94 08...". Change the second byte pair to "6F", so that it now reads "6F
6F 00 00 FF B6 94 08...".
3. Save and enjoy!
Hope this is useful.