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25 August 2003, 12:13 PM

J4CKO

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Whats the best free software for eliminating pop ups, I have things installing system tray icons and allsorts, even with Zone Alarm installed, help, this is driving me mental !

I am on XP by the way

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25 August 2003, 12:31 PM

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25 August 2003, 01:58 PM

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the one with google toobar seems to work very well

http://toolbar.google.com/

the toolbar being very useful as well

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25 August 2003, 10:43 PM

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Google version works well. Installed last night and 7 blocked already.

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25 August 2003, 10:52 PM

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If its the messenger pop-ups...

Go to Start, then Run and type in services.msc Click Ok

Scroll to Messenger, select it, right click it and choose Properties.

Under startup choose "Disabled", then choose Stop.

When stopped, click Ok.