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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 ...
27
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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 ...
21
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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 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.
9
votes
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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 "...
9
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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 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 ...
8
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How do I block this MS Edge pop-up dialog on browser close?
Try:
Type edge://flags in the address bar and press enter
Type Show feature and workflow recommendations in the search bar on top
Click on the dropdown menu beside the option and select Disable
...
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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 ...
5
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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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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 ...
4
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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'...
3
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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.
...
3
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Keep "toast" notifications up until I close them?
Late to the party - as of 2016, you can use a "reminder" scenario to cause a toast to stay visible. See the docs at MSDN:
A reminder toast notification will stay on screen until the user dismisses ...
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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 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 ...
2
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force firefox to crash or trick firefox into thinking it has crashed on windows
This is made by Mozilla themselves:
http://archive.mozilla.org/pub/utilities/crashfirefox-intentionally/crashfirefox.exe
== crashfirefox-intentionally --
Tool for QA/testers to intentionally ...
2
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How to permanently disable Bing translator on Chrome?
I resolved this by deleting the translator cookie.
The cookie will be set by the domain you are actually on, but will include a word like "translation" or "language" in the cookie name. Mine was not ...
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Why does Internet Explorer block a pop-up?
Since Ben answered questions #1 and #2, I'll take a stab at #3. These instructions should work with current versions of Internet Explorer (IE). I'm writing these directly from IE 11.
In the Internet ...
2
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Random links popping up virus on chrome
You may have installed Google Chrome Extension (un)intentionally that has History API Access.
With chrome History permission you can do all sort of stuffs with History : History API
Check for Chrome ...
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Disable Firefox warnings about password fields in a non-HTTPS website
Remember you're doing it at your own risk of sending password to a
website in a non-secure way.
I needed this because I work as programmer and usually I'm testing
websites on my local ...
2
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Hide gui dialog pop-ups from bash script
GUI applications executed from a script try to connect to the X server specified by the DISPLAY variable. If you clear that variable, programs will not be able to open a window, so that should ...
2
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Outlook password prompt
It is very likely, that they have a device lying around that uses an old password. Ocasionally this device is turned on, triggers 10 (or whatever the number is) login errors, and temporarily blocks ...
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How to extend default choices in User Account Control Pop Up
You cannot edit the list of options offered in the UAC dialog.
Two workarounds may be useful in this case:
You can Shift+right-click the application you're starting and choose Run as different user ...
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