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Disable Microsoft Edge Pop-up Notifications in Taskbar and System Tray
According to How-To Geek these advertisements can be disabled in the Windows 10 Settings:
They’re not generated by the Microsoft Edge app on your PC. Instead,
they’re generated by the Windows ...
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How to make Outlook Calendar reminders stay on top in Windows
For Office 365 subscribers, this feature is available if you are on Version 1804 (Build 9226.2114) or higher.
You can set up Outlook to display your reminder window on top of other programs you're ...
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How to make Outlook Calendar reminders stay on top in Windows 7
AutoHotKey can also be used to solve this. This script will put the reminder window on top without stealing focus (tested with Win10 / Outlook 2013)
TrayTip Script, Looking for Reminder window to ...
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Name of the element that pops up when you mouse over a folder in Windows 10?
This is called the "Pop-up Description", and it can be disabled and enabled
(see link).
The time it takes for it to pop up is called the "Mouse Hover Time".
It is specified in the ...
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What is Speech Downloader?
Its a program in your Mac for Siri updating the Voice to text function
See image below:
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How to prevent the popup password prompt when using GnuPG with mutt?
When used with gpg-agent, GnuPG uses a "pinentry" utility to query for the passphrase. There are different pinentry options; it seems you're using one of the graphical ones.
As an alternative, I'd ...
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How can I disable software update notifications in kde/plasma
Go to Panel settings:
Then go to System tray settings:
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How can I disable software update notifications in kde/plasma
Don't know for other distros, but for Fedora
dnf remove plasma-pk-updates
should solve it.
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Google Chrome blocks links opened in new tab
From the limited research I have done, this appears to be an issue with the latest Chrome update. Some have said it is an issue with the Ghostery extension, and when it is disabled functions as "...
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How to make Outlook Calendar reminders stay on top in Windows 7
As of Version 1803 (February 2018), the "Show reminders on top of other windows" option is now available. It does not appear to be enabled by default.
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What is Speech Downloader?
Found a solution here.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7696701?start=0&tstart=0
Need to go to System Prefs > Accessibility > Speech > System Voice (drop down) > Customize. Then uncheck any ...
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How to disable javascript modal popup ads
The problem is although it appears as if it is a pop up, it is actually just HTML giving the impression it's a pop up. It is often called an overlay. Meaning on some sites, it will be junk (as per the ...
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What is the most reliable way to block newsletter sign-up/email-request pop-ups in Chrome?
OPTION 1 - Block it yourself
Go to a site, get a popup.
Click the AdBlock extension button on the toolbar, and select "Block an ad on this page"
Show it the ad, and it get the following window:
...
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Chrome keeps opening up tanksw.com
This is a result of the Invite All Friends on Facebook plugin. (click to uninstall)
In the directory under your profile Extensions/inmmhkeajgflmokoaaoadgkhhmibjbpj you should see a file called bg.cs ...
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How to translate the selected text in Windows using Google translate?
I strongly advise you QTranslate.
Its a free windows app, that translate selected text by pressing hotkey.
Program support many translate services like Google, Babylon and much more.
I think this is ...
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How can I remove the new download popup?
chrome://flags/
Set "Enable Download Bubble" to "Disabled"
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How to disable Gecko package popup for Wine?
This can be disabled by exporting the following options:
export WINEDLLOVERRIDES="mscoree,mshtml="
Related:
3.5. Environment variables
Disable Mono installing dialogue.
Running Wine without ...
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What is this random “Do you need more hard disk on your Mac?” pop-up on a Mac about?
I have exactly the same pop-up on my MAC, it happens after installing FileZilla.
Here is how I removed it. Found answer from Apple's forum:
You installed a fake "utility" called "Advanced Mac ...
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What is this random “Do you need more hard disk on your Mac?” pop-up on a Mac about?
I had the same problem on my Macbook Pro 15" (although I have 100 GB free space!). See screenshot here:
It appeared to be the famous Mac Cleaner that was involuntary downloaded with FileZilla a few ...
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Google Chrome - Open pop-ups in new tab?
In Firefox, you can do this easily by changing the config. But as for now, Google Chrome does not have anything like this, and it's annoying.
However, you can use a third-party extension to do this. I'...
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Why does Internet Explorer block a pop-up?
Pop-ups are additional browser windows that are opened (usually) via JavaScript. A function frequently responsible for opening the popup window is window.open.
Most browsers have popup-blocking ...
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How to restrict Internet Explorer from maximizing my web application page when it was already minimized?
According to the Cisco Finesse desktop interface manual,
section Browser behavior,
there is no way to prevent IE from coming to the front or annoyingly
flashing on the taskbar, except by using more ...
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Stop taskeng.exe window from popping up
The simplest way to hide an application launched from the Task Scheduler is to set it to "Run whether user is logged on or not". This setting can be found in the General Tab of the Scheduled Task ...
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What is the most reliable way to block newsletter sign-up/email-request pop-ups in Chrome?
Having to do this on a site by site, element by element, is not really an answer to the original question, since the OP is using Wired.com as an example to reference the type of popup in question.
...
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How to remove (or disable) pop up "Search | Copy" in Opera?
I found answer here.
Settings > Browser, in the User interface section. It says "Enable the search pop-up when selecting text" - clear the checkbox and it will go away.
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How can I prevent Chrome from displaying a volume control box when I change my volume?
Go to chrome://flags/#hardware-media-key-handling
Set Hardware Media Key Handling to Disabled
Restart the browser to apply the changes.
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I want Win + Alt + D functionality but as a clickable shortcut
You need to use a combination of keys to be combined into one keyboard macro.
To build up the macro, enter the following once:
Win+B - selects the Windows system tray
Arrow right - count how many ...
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Annoying game popup
If your son used your personal account, then I would:
Backup any save files (if needed/desired)
Deinstall the app from your account.
Let your son log in using his own account.
Let your son install ...
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Open link in new tab - Pop-up Blocked
Per the same link you provided, this has already been recognized as an issue by the Chromium team and is under investigation.
The only likely fix until resolved by the Chromium developers is globally ...
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