Pop Ups...my personal hell!

[Blade6119]

Alright, i am finally fed up and need your help to deal with this problem. :mad: I play Americas Army alot(i like destroying illini), but every minute my game is getting minimized bc of a stupid pop-up...it is becoming unplayable, and that is simply not cool. What can i do to stop this horrid plague...in the last 3 hours i have gotten 213 pop-ups... :mad: ..please help me, what can i do!!!

[hukarez]

Whoa...well. Have you tried Ad-Aware? I think you should look into other pop-up software online too...

[Kodos]

Whew. I guess it wasn't that kind of pop up.

[hukarez]

I had initially thought there were pop-ups in the game itself...well. Don't have it installed or anything, haven't gotten around to playing it.

[Blade6119]

Nope, these are seperate from AA...

[Jets80]

Try this > It worked for me. That is if its the same type of pop ups I was having trouble with windows XP

Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services
Browse the list until you see "Messenger", right click & select 'Stop'. Double-click for Properties and select 'Disable' in the 'Startup Type' drop down.

[j51]

I don't think they're browser popups because they wouldn't minimize your game, so it must be messenger spam.

Go here: http://www.accessky.net/Howtodisablemessengerservice.shtml to learn how to turn it off

[Jets80]

Dola....
IF that does not work try ad aware like Huckarez said or Spybot search and destroy. The combination of these 3 things had almost eliminated my pop problems....knock on wood

[Blade6119]

I don't think they're browser popups because they wouldn't minimize your game, so it must be messenger spam.

Go here: http://www.accessky.net/Howtodisablemessengerservice.shtml to learn how to turn it off

Mine is already turned off.. :(

[Blade6119]

Is it anything to do with using IE?...is Mozilla better?

[hukarez]

IE Browser stuff? I personally use Google's toolbar to block the pop-ups from then and there.

[Young Drachma]

Same here. Google toolbar works great for me too. You can even opt-in to pop-ups on pages that you want them on.

[sovereignstar]

Is it anything to do with using IE?...is Mozilla better?
I just recently switched to Mozilla and have never had a single pop-up. I didn't want to uninstall Kazaa and my switch has paid off.

[dawgfan]

I swear, if the next version of IE doesn't include pop-up blockers I'm going to go ballistic...

[primelord]

Is it anything to do with using IE?...is Mozilla better?
Well just using Mozilla won't keep you from getting pop ups, but Mozilla is better. :)

[Abe Sargent]

Yep, I use FireFox (Previously FireBird) and I have never had a popup. Yay!


-Anxiety

[MizzouRah]

Google toolbar is the best I've used thus far. It stops everything and then some, plus it has alot of other nice features.


Todd

[illinifan999]

Someone is dreaming about destroying me. :)

[Blade6119]

Dreaming of a day when you make it hard to kill you, yes.