How do I stop pop ups? Pop up blocking in your browser

Pop up Blockers

Summary- Pop ups can be very annoying. There are practical ways to reduce their occurrence and free up time for more productive computing.

Purpose- Pop ups were originally used to draw people's attention to special events and/or features on their site. They have evolved into a mindless intrusions on your systems. Pop up setting and blockers can help control these mini programs that accumulate on your system & try to dominate your web experience.

Advice- We still find Internet Explorer's methods cumbersome and hard to manage. We suggest using an automatic popup blocker/ remover. We have found that you will also experience a great improvements in operating speed and a reductions in time lost to dealing with continuous pop ups and unders.

Internet Safety software

Automatic Pop up blocking:
There are several software products on the market that help to clean & automate the process of removing and preventing pop ups. The settings that come with Internet Explorer 7 are an improvement under "Tools". You must set it to either "off" or you must set them to low, medium & high & you can designate which important ones to allow.

The Problems- Unnecessary pop up files eat up valuable hard drive space. You can take back your privacy and improve your system's performance by regularly cleaning your cache, cookies, history, recent documents list.

Browser Activity Eraser
Window Washer cleans all aspects of your browser activity, including Internet history, address bar, cache, cookies, and more. Mozilla and Firefox users now enjoy the same online privacy protection that users of Internet Explorer, AOL and Netscape already enjoy.

Permanent Bleaching
Bleach, an encryption feature, completely overwrites files with random characters to make them unrecoverable. This feature is so powerful it exceeds the tough standards of the Department of Defense and the National Security Agency.

Free Space Cleaner
Free space on your computer contains portions of old and previously deleted files and documents. Window Washer now cleans this area making the files you deleted earlier permanently unrecoverable.

One-click Shredder
Window Washer lets you simply and conveniently shred a folder and all of its contents, or just a single file, in one step. Just a simple right-click will permanently overwrites these files, making them unrecoverable.

Critical File Protection
Window Washer includes built-in safety features to help prevent you from accidentally removing important files. Alerts prompt you to confirm your request to delete special folders, like system folders, My Documents, My Photos, and others, so they remain safe from unintentional deletions.

Smart Cookie Saver
Window Washer deletes the cookies you don't want and lets you keep and save those you do. That way you maintain your preferred Internet settings and log-ins for all your favorite sites.

Flexible Washes
During a wash, Window Washer automatically cleans the latest versions of your favorite programs such as Real Player, Google Search Toolbar, iTunes, Macromedia Flash Player, Adobe Acrobat and hundreds more, to keep these programs running smoothly.

Automatic Wash Cycles
You can set Window Washer to automatically clean your system at specified intervals, like at shut down or start up. For added security, we recommend setting Window Washer to wash when you close your Internet browser.

Total System Erase
Window Washer can be set to fully erase your hard drive, files, programs and operating system for easy re-formatting. Consider using this feature if you're donating or selling your PC and you don't want your files to be seen by strangers.
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