Pop-up Stopper
Noted in the last digest that you were contemplating installing a
Pop-Up stopper. The one you mentioned was Pow! from AnalogX. While I am a
big fan of his work and use several of his tools, I would like to recommend
in the particular case that you check out Panicware's Pop-Up Stopper,
available here. There's a
free version (which is the one I use) which can quickly be switched off/on
by double-clicking the systray icon (which changes its display to indicate
enabled/disabled) and plays an audio alert when pop-ups/unders are stopped
(in case you forget you enabled it and can't figure out why that page won't
open). You can temporarily disable it (for the current click) by holding
down the Ctrl or Shift keys while clicking. Very handy.
7 Comments
Anonymous
March 24th, 2002
at 12:01pm
I like it.. i like it alot!!!
Anonymous
March 24th, 2002
at 2:31pm
That works really well..I just installed it. I even had to press ctrl to get the comments window to appear on the blog after I installed it. Very good..makes me very happy!!:)
Anonymous
March 25th, 2002
at 1:04am
Been using it for months, and it stops all pop-ups, even my Windows folders sometimes! Can't recommend it enough.
Anonymous
March 25th, 2002
at 8:30am
I too am a fan of AnalogX software but I must admit that Pop-Up Stopper is much more convenient to use than Pow! I used Pow! for quite awhile and though it works well, you have to tell it to get rid of a pop-up the first time it runs into it. This can get very annoying. Especially if you've reached a new page that has several pop-ups and you find yourself not being able to keep up with them while you are trying to tell Pow! to kill them. Pop-Up stopper is awesome! And, AnalogX is still awesome too. I have used Cache Booster and MaxMem on my Windows 98 machine ever since I found them on their site and they do wonders to improve my computers performance!
Anonymous
March 25th, 2002
at 2:02pm
I use Pop-Up Stopper extensively in Win98 and am trying Web Washer in WinXP. Pop-up Stopper is far more effective in blocking Pop Ups and Pop Unders. Web Washer is missing these pretty regularly.
Anonymous
March 25th, 2002
at 10:59pm
..and if you use a _real_ browser like Mozilla the pop-up stopper is already built in. :-)
Anonymous
March 26th, 2002
at 6:23pm
try http://www.naviscope.com
it's better.