How do I stop pop-up's?

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Carsten Troelsgaard wrote:
> My wrist is getting sore by this doubling or tripling of mouse-clicks to get
> rid of the pop-up's that has the audacity to steal focus constantly. Make my
> day and tell me how I get rid if it.
>
> Carsten
>


Use Firefox which has a built in blocker or if you are using IE
check out
http://lists.gpick.com/pages/Ad~PopUp_Tools.htm



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Carsten Troelsgaard wrote:
> My wrist is getting sore by this doubling or tripling of mouse-clicks
> to get rid of the pop-up's that has the audacity to steal focus
> constantly. Make my day and tell me how I get rid if it.
>
> Carsten


Are you updated to SP2 for windows XP?

Unless you have disabled it, it has a fairly decent popup blocker built into
IE.

Other than that, the Mozilla Firefox browser is pretty good at keeping
popups away. I pretty much use Firefox exclusively now, except for when I
have to get my windows updates, then I have to use IE.



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In newsC9pVMSrFHA.908@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl,
Carsten Troelsgaard <carsten.troelsgaard@NoSpam.mail.dk> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

> "Don Burnette" <d.burnette@clothes.comcast.net> skrev i en meddelelse
> news:%23hNgWiQrFHA.2072@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>> Carsten Troelsgaard wrote:
>>> My wrist is getting sore by this doubling or tripling of
>>> mouse-clicks to get rid of the pop-up's that has the audacity to
>>> steal focus constantly. Make my day and tell me how I get rid if it.
>>>
>>> Carsten
>>
>>
>> Are you updated to SP2 for windows XP?
>>
>> Unless you have disabled it, it has a fairly decent popup blocker
>> built into IE.
>>
>> Other than that, the Mozilla Firefox browser is pretty good at
>> keeping popups away. I pretty much use Firefox exclusively now,
>> except for when I have to get my windows updates, then I have to use
>> IE.
>
> Thanks for your replies
> I havn't made myself clear ,, I'm talking about xp's own messages
> that pops up on the lover right corner of the screen. I'm running an
> updated sp2, so pop-up advertizing is no problem, besides, it doesn't
> take fokus and absolutely needs attention. The particular and
> repeated twist of the hand to get down and deal with it is
> potentially stressing millions of people that may already struggle
> with mouse-related enjuries. It's a disgrace if Microsoft hasn't
> build-in an option to stop the thing. Passing log-like or 'to do'
> info is good ... just not how it's implemented.
> Carsten

I think I know why you haven't found it. They're called balloon tips.

Disable Balloon Tips in Windows XP:
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/k [...] owsXP.html

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