Kmplayer how to remove the sidebar. How to completely disable ads in KMPlayer using the simplest methods? If you can't save the host file

The main window of the KMPlayer media player displays advertisements. Therefore, many users of this program are beginning to look for an answer to the question of how to remove ads in KMPlayer.

KMPlayer is a popular and powerful program for watching videos or listening to music. At the same time, integrated advertising is displayed in the main window of the program.

If you use various free programs, then you probably noticed that ads are displayed in the windows of many of these programs. This is how app developers make money. I think that they should not be scolded for this, since they develop programs that we use completely free of charge.

In this article, I will tell you how you can remove ads in KMPlayer in three different ways: using the Internet Explorer browser, using hosts file, using the Adguard program.

AT new version player, changing the cover does not remove ads from the KMPlayer window. After a new launch of the player, advertising will again be displayed in the main window of the program.

How to remove ads in KMPlayer using Internet Explorer

To remove ads from KMPlayer, you will need to enter the settings of your Internet Explorer browser. In the main browser window, click on the "Tools" menu button. Next, in the "Internet Options" window, go to the "Security" tab. In the "Dangerous Sites" area, click the "Sites" button.

In the "Dangerous Sites" window, add to this zone the addresses of sites that broadcast ads to the KMPlayer multimedia player:

http://player.kmpmedia.net http://www.kmplayer.com/

After adding an entry to the field, click on the "Add" button, and then on the "Close" button.

In the "Internet Options" window, click the "OK" button.

After launching KMPlayer, you will see that there will be no more ads in the player window.

How to remove ads in KMPlayer using the hosts file

When using this method, you will need to open host file s, which is located in this path:

C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc

You can open this file with the standard Notepad program. To save changes to the hosts file, first copy the hosts file to your desktop and then open it with Notepad.

You will need to add the following lines to the hosts file:

127.0.0.1 player.kmpmedia.net 127.0.0.1 www.kmplayer.com

After a new launch of the player, the main window of KMPlayer will be without ads.

How to remove ads in KMPlayer using Adguard

It will be possible to completely remove ads in KMPlayer using the Adguard program. With the help of this program, you can remove ads not only in this particular player, but also in other applications that show ads in their windows.

In the window that opens, click on the "Select an executable file ..." button.

After that, KMPlayer will be added to the list of applications that are subject to traffic filtering. After restarting the program, you will see that advertising banners have been disabled in the media player. Now, you can watch videos or listen to music in KMPlayer without being distracted by annoying ads.

Article Conclusions

Of course, everyone understands that advertising is the engine of trade, but often in programs installed on a computer, it annoys users unspeakably. This phenomenon has not bypassed the popular KMPlayer player among many users. The aspirations of developers to earn extra money in this way are understandable. But it is here, according to most users, too much. However, there are several simple techniques that allow KMPlayer to disable ads once and for all. Let's consider each of them in as much detail as possible.

How to disable ads in KMPlayer 4.2.2.9 with the simplest method?

So, after downloading the distribution kit and installing the player (even in Russian), at the first start, advertising appears both in the center and in the right window, which is absolutely unnecessary for the user, which is nothing more than an additional panel. She just needs to get rid of it. This will be discussed a little later, but for now let's look at simpler actions.

In order to disable advertising in KMPlayer, it is enough to go to the cover selection item in the main menu, then use the emblem item and set the standard one. The panel itself can be deactivated by setting the slider responsible for displaying it to the leftmost position.

Note: The panel quick disconnect method is also suitable for mobile systems, since it looks the simplest for smartphones and tablets in this case.

How to disable ads in KMPlayer 4.2.X.X using the settings in the hosts file?

Now let's focus on more complex methods that have nothing to do with the settings of the player itself. It is believed that much more effective method, which allows you to quickly and reliably disable ads in KMPlayer, is prescribing advanced settings blocking some Internet resources in the hosts file. But this can only be done under certain conditions.

First you need to open the Notepad program as an administrator (the Notepad.exe file is located in the Windows root folder), use the Run or Task Manager console to start it with the creation of a new task, be sure to check the execution item just on behalf of admin. After that, through the file menu, you need to open the hosts file itself, setting “All files” in the list of types (this object has no extension and is located in the etc subfolder of the drivers directory located in the System 32 system directory).

After the two standard end lines indicating the local host address, you need to add four addresses, as shown in the image above, and then simply save the file using the shortcut Ctrl + S.

Configuring Browser and Firewall Properties

Another technique that allows you to disable ads in KMPlayer is almost a complete analog of the previous one. It is only necessary to enter addresses that will later be blocked by the system in the section of dangerous sites, which is located in the browser properties of the standard "Control Panel".

Finally, if you wish, you can experiment with Windows. Open the list of programs and disable independent access to the Internet for the executable file of the player KMPlayer.exe.

Brief summary

Actually, this can be put an end to. If we talk about the preferred method, making changes to the hosts file seems to be the most relevant, since when updating the player with the installation of the most recent version, the reappearance of advertising is not ruled out. You can also use the setting of firewall bans or even add the resources accessed by the player to the list of potentially dangerous sites. But this way looks in some sense more long and laborious, although, as an option, the use of such methods is by no means excluded.

Yes, there are many players besides KPMpayer, but there are cases when this particular player can handle the playback. It has a bunch of settings and works from its own codecs, which makes it independent of the system. For example, I had such a case when no player (windows MP, LA, classic MP and others) could play the Russian audio track in the movie. And I needed her. This is where KPMpayer helped me.

After that, I started using this player, but I was annoyed by ads:

This ad can be disabled. This is done simply: we need to change the windows “host” file, which is responsible for redirection (redirects addresses like site.ru to IP). In this case, we need to redirect all KMP Internet addresses to the internal IP 127.0.0.1, so the program will not be able to access the Internet and advertising will not work. Also, any communication of the program with the Internet will not work.

Important: please note that KMP installs with itself a program that lives well on the Internet (communicates via the Internet with users on the video network). The program is called "pandora" and it eats traffic. I recommend that you go to the "add/remove programs" panel and check if you have "pandora" installed, if there is, remove it, it does not affect the operation of KMP.

Removing ads

Open the file "C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts" in notepad and add these lines at the end

127.0.0.1 player.kmpmedia.net 127.0.0.1 log.kmplayer.com 127.0.0.1 cdn.kmplayer.com 127.0.0.1 cdn.pandora.tv

If you can't save the host file

"host" is a system file and Windows may not allow you to change this file. To bypass this protection, you need to open notepad with administrator rights. For this:

1. Open a notepad with administrator rights: go to the “C:\Windows” folder, find the “notepad.exe” file there, right-click (right-click) and select “Run as Administrator” from the menu.

2. Open the host file in notepad: File > Open > File path: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts > Button: Open.

3. Edit and save the file. The file will now be saved.

Another option is to change the host

In the window that opens, select the user and check the box next to "Full access".

In the publication, in "pictures" we traced the process of the appearance of the player on the computer. There is also a problem: intrusive advertising that appears at startup KMP 3.7 and slowing down its work, as evidenced by thousands of angry users on the Web, some of which have switched to more "friendly" counterparts. What to do is not necessary, because simple solutions to this problem are known, two of them are under the cut.

Method one . Just go back to the previous "ad-free" version of the program (build 3.6 can be downloaded, in the blog Catalog of rating software), by deleting the existing 3.7 . At the end of the procedure, do not forget to turn off automatic update KMP, via "hot" key " F2" → in settings " General"on tab" When starting…"uncheck the checkbox next to the item" Auto check for updates(screenshot below).

Method two . Does not require software uninstallation, but requires some accuracy in actions.

First, check that the logo (emblem) of the existing built-in theme (cover) is standard. To do this, click on the player window with the right mouse button → in the drop-down menu, select " Covers" → "Emblem" → "Standard cover logo".

Secondly, to remove the last "brakes" at startup, you should prohibit KMPlayer access to the Internet. This is easily done by editing the system file hosts about which I wrote in detail. With administrator rights in Notepad, open this file located in the folder C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc, and add the line

127.0.0.1 player.kmpmedia.net

What should happen - in the last screenshot. Then, after saving, close the file and restart your favorite media player - now it, as before, starts briskly and without any ads.

Important!

Since the first solution to the problem, with a "rollback" to one of the previous versions, is a dead end, I recommend immediately trying the second option with editing the file hosts.

Dmitry dmitry_spb Evdokimov

Good afternoon. A lot of users prefer from all video players, namely KMPlayer. This is actually a very convenient and popular player. Basically, it has gained popularity due to the fact that it supports a decent number of formats and codecs, thanks to which, these films were encoded.

KMPlayer can play such well-known formats as mp4, avi, wmv, mkv, 3gp and others. In this regard, the player has the ability to play not only films in modern HD and 4K resolution, but also various old videos created handicraft, mostly in avi format.

I myself have been using this player for 15 years, if not more. The player is really good, and it's free. Which is already a big plus! But, a few years ago, modern versions of this program had a big drawback - a lot of advertising!

I understand that advertising is the engine of progress and so on. I myself use contextual advertising to earn money. But, one thing - not intrusive contextual advertising, and completely different when advertising flickers, distracts, and so on.

Previously, when launching this player, it simply played the video you needed and there was no advertising. Now, in new versions of the program, when you start the player, a window opens on the right, which the user does not need at all, but which has a lot of ads. Also, there are a lot of ads in the main window.

This is very distracting and the desire to use this player disappears. In this player, there are more ads than in the well-known UTorrent program (advertising is also possible in it).