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Why am I seeing ads on websites including Wikipedia?
I was reading about hash functions on Wikipedia when this ad popped up. I was appalled and flabbergasted and annoyed to find advertisements akin to this one dotting my article like sprinkles on a ...
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How can I stop Flip4Mac from automatically trying analyze files and popping up infuriating error messages? OSX 10.7
I have a question similar to http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/os-x-operating-system/261089-flip-4-mac-drm-protected-content-issue.html except that in my case, Flip4Mac is doing something--perhaps ...
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Is it possible to log every system/application pop-up window and see it later in Windows XP and later?
Few minutes ago while browsing internet with Firefox 8.0.1 for Windows XP (Professional 32bit) i saw that some pop up probably with system or Firefox information blinked (appeared and disappeared ...
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Why does Internet Explorer refresh when I click “always allow popups”?
Why does Internet Explorer always refresh the page when I click "always allow popups"?
When Internet Explorer blocks a popup from a particular website, it asks me if I'd like to temporarily allow ...
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Why does Internet Explorer give me pop-ups while using Firefox? [closed]
When I'm browsing with Firefox, I often get pop-ups from Internet Explorer. How is this possible?
When I then start Internet Explorer, I get a message that I have arrived on an incorrect homepage.
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Calendar Pop-up Details from Calendar - putting most recent overdue date in Due Date column
Microsoft Outlook 2007 has a calendar that I use with a Pop-up Details window. The Pop-up Details window has recently started showing in the Due Date column the oldest item from my calendar instead ...
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Is it possible to set Windows 7 to download updates now, but install them on the next shutdown?
Since I really don't like being reminded of an update that requires a reboot1, is it possible to have manual updates install when shutting down the next time? Automatic updating does this, but it's ...
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Avoid body ad when click it
I visit a forum which let me download stuff. When I click anywhere it opens a new window. It is not a pop-up, it's a new window with advertisement. All the browsers can't block it because it is not a ...
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Is there any way to prevent just popunder windows?
One of the greatest annoyances I experience almost daily while browsing the intertubes are popunder advertisment windows. Usually, they are triggered by clicking on the window somewhere, thus ...
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Is there a Firefox plugin that will allow me to edit the address in a popup?
The website I'm developing uses a lot of popups. It is handy for me to be able to edit the address in the address bar so that I can append variables and such. FF seems to prevent me from doing this. ...
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Why does Google open a 'Logger' page when I search? [closed]
I've never seen this before, but this afternoon I started getting Firefox notifications that a popup had been blocked on Google.ca. After some searching and failing to find any references to it ...
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Mac — disable “You have forced [appname] to quit” popup?
I don't want to see that popup anymore. I could not care less if it transmits my data or not. But I don't want to see the popup whenever I kill the app. Is there any way to disable it?
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Browser pollution / Pop Up request
From time to time, when I browse the internet , after entering a site's URL , I get a warning message that a pop up has been blocked , then a question mark and a set of numbers appends itself after ...
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Modify the size of popup windows in IE9?
I have a client that uses a web app extensively that utilizes popup windows to display search results. Her problem is that when popups get displayed, they are very small in size and she is forced to ...
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Is Chrome's popup blocker working at all?
Windows 7, Chrome 11.0.696.71
http://www.quirksmode.org/js/popup.html (popup link is about 1 page down)
http://www.buywebsitetrafficnow.com/Popunder-Demo.aspx
I've definitely got the popup blocker ...
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How to get rid of Excel pop up prompt when attempt to open an image? Office 2010
How can i disable the popup warning when i attempt to open an image w/ my Excel spreadsheet? The button is hyper linked with relative path to the current directory, and each button is linked to ...
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Why should one install Growl (for Windows), what is the need?
I hope the question is within the rules. I have problems understanding the Growl concept!
Actually they answer the most basic question nowhere: Why do I need Growl?
Why would I ask this? Because I ...
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Chrome opening all popups maximized regardless of specified size
I have my webmail (SmarterMail) set up as an Application Shortcut in Chrome (10.0.648.204), and the main window itself stays maximized on my second monitor. All of its popups (the Compose New Mail ...
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How can I block all pop-ups with Chrome
Some Websites (often links to 2leep.com) have very annoing advertising: If I click on a link, they open a popup with their adds and open the link I'm interested in.
If I go to ...
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How to make new Office Communicator session pop up in Windows 7
I recently converted to Windows 7 and I usually have Office Communicator running. When someone else instigates a conversation with me, the notification pops up, but behind everything else, and as ...
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How to make Outlook Calendar reminders pop up in Windows 7
I'm just starting to use Windows 7 and I want to know how to make my Outlook reminders pop up and show themselves. They keep opening discretely, quietly as just another Outlook entry on the taskbar. ...
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How to control alerts in TweetDeck
In TweetDeck I have several saved searches. This would cause a pop-up to come up constantly, so I turned off the alerts. However, there are some things I want to be alerted to. How can I enable alerts ...
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Win7: sort icons in “desktop” popup/toolbar
I've right clicked my task bar and selected Desktop in the Toolbars submenu. This now shows a Desktop >> button left to the tray area. When I click this button, a popup with my desktop icons opens ...
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Leftovers of a trojan cause popups saying “crss.exe” cannot be found
I am helping out a coworker with Winodws XP 32-bit, and took off a Trojan using Malwarebytes, Spy-bot Search and Destroy, and Trojan remover with total annihilation of the Trojan. I also had to find ...
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Stop Firefox from opening Add-ons dialog after every update?
Every time I install or update an add-on, Firefox then pops open the add-ons dialog after the next time the browser starts. I have never ever had a use for this, it's just another popup window for me ...
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Stop taskeng.exe window from popping up
I have several processes scheduled in my Windows 7 environment, mainly for backups, that are supposed to run in the background.
However instead of just doing it's work quietly in the background, the ...
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Linux desktop reminders
I was wondering if there any desktop reminders for linux kinda pop-up notifications?
Sultan
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Irritating pop-up flash
I have ton of softwares installed on my PC and there is a small window that blinks just like fraction of second and goes off, cant't even read the title or anything about the window. It is NOT a ...
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How to stop word hover popups?
I am not sure what they are called but often when you read articles there are links that when you hovers display a little box. It's not an actual popup, but a positioned element on the page.
I often ...
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Is there a way to turn off all pop-up alerts in Windows XP?
Is there a config option to turn off those little yellow balloons that pop up in the lower right corner of the screen?
Also the found new hardware dialog that shows up regardless of whether the ...
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Change taskbar pop-up response time
In Windows 7, when you hover over an application icon on the taskbar, a popup appears with an image of the open application in it. Very useful, but it's kind of slow.
This seems to take about a half ...
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How to have any popup in firefox open as a tab instead
I used to have a custom about:config setting that made it so that any popup a page would generate was opened in a new tab instead.
With my new install, I can't remember the name of this setting. Can ...
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How to get rid of annoying and quickly disappearing firewall popups on Mac [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Why does the Mac OS X firewall dialog recurringly pop-up and disappear by itself (without letting me respond) under Snow Leopard?
Hi,
Often when I have smb file shares ...
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Dealing with modal popups in Dynamics GP when running as a Remote Application in Terminal Services
Running GP10 as a Remote Application in Terminal Servers (W2K8). The multi-analysis tool requires ODBC credentials, when it executes against the database, to build the data cube.
Unfortunately, ...
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Prevent a repeatedly running console program from taking focus
I'm running windows 7. Every 10 seconds, a script will run that will send a popup command line box and close at the end of the script.
In the meantime, when I'm using other applications, I am ...
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Firefox opens all popups I closed during the last session
I'm using Firefox 3.6.6 on Windows XP and had a strange problem now: I worked on many pages during the day which were still using interactive popups (i.e. user has to click on image to popup opened ...
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How can I get rid of the annoying windows' automatic update needs reboot popup as non-admin?
While this answer may help if you're an admin, it doesn't help at work. So is there a way to get rid of this message without having to bother your admin?
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This web site needs a different Google Maps API key. A new key can be generated at http://code.google.com/apis/maps/
Apologies in advance if this is the wrong place to post. I tried searching for this issue and all that seemed to come up were questions posted from people who had this issue with their web pages. I ...
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Flash Player Automatic Updater on Windows Startup
Adobe Flash Player is set to automatically check for updates on Windows startup. I've always wondered where exactly it is set to do this. Checking the running services, as well as msconfig does not ...
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Making the popup toolbar menus on Windows XP's taskbar stay put during editing
I'm looking for a way to make the popup toolbar menus on Windows XP's taskbar stay in place while you edit it, and only close when you tell it to--by clicking outside it, for example. Right now it ...
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Google Chrome Automatically Save Passwords
I have seen, and at one point implemented, methods of modifying firefox's password manager popup such that it would automatically save usernames and passwords without prompt. I was wondering if there ...
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Firefox - Add the full firefox header to a popup
I have popup that I want to use some of my firefox tools on.
The popup only has a status bar on it right now. How can I get all the normal firefox toolbars (like forward, back, home, address bar, ...
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firefox pop-up blocker doesn't work
I'm downloading something from mediafire.com. but there's lots of pop-ups everytime I click on the download button. Is there a firefox extension which blocks pop-up?
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How do I make ALL pop ups in Firefox open in a new tab rather then a new window?
I'm running Firefox 3.6.3 on Windows 7. And I still got some pop ups in new Windows (particularly the problem always reoccurs at one website)
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How can I run a IE window without tabs and menus?
Is it possible to run from the command prompt an Internet Explorer window which does not contains tabs and menus (popup window)?
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Unwanted sites pop up frequently in Mozila Firefox
Whenever I open up any site, some unwanted sites are opening other sites. How can I prevent my computer from opening the unwanted sites? I am using Mozilla Firefox.
Most of the sites are adult ...
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Make Firefox open new windows as new tabs BUT open JavaScript popups as popups
It's happened again: Firefox started letting new windows open as new windows and not capturing them in tabs instead. So of course JavaScript popups work properly, but my tab preferences are not ...
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How do I turn off the “This device can Run Faster” pop-up in Windows 7
Running Windows 7 Ultimate on my machine and I use a KVM switch/hub. The switch/hub runs at USB1.1 max but works fine.
Trouble is I keep getting this notification bubble pop-up up every damn time I ...
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Getting around an HTML in-page pop-up ad?
Trying to watch a video on a website, but there is a large CPA (Cost per action/PPA) popover that is sitting on the page blocking the view of the video in question.
The video plays, but how do I get ...
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How do you block the latest popups (not sure if they're FLASH based, etc.)
I'm using FF 3.5 and have popup blocker enabled. But I'm still getting popups. I'm guessing their flash based. The real annoyance is that they cover the text of the website and (in some cases like the ...
