[Fledermaus]

Do you mean those pop-up ads that look like a windows page with the min/max button and the "close" button at the bottom with nothing but text and no link? Usually with the grey background?

If so, there is a way to turn those off but I'll have to look it up again.

[Fledermaus]

Nevermind, Recourse beat me to it! WTG.

Now, any way to get the pop-up ads on the IE turned off? The Orbitz ones are killing me. Some sites are worse than others though...Chicago Sun-Times hits you twice coming and going with every click.

NRO used to not use them, but they have 2 or 3 going on the home page now.

[DallasMike]

Do you mean those pop-up ads that look like a windows page with the min/max button and the "close" button at the bottom with nothing but text and no link?

Best solution to that is to buy a router. You can get a good one (like a Linksys) for under a hundred bucks. First, though, try the free version of ZoneAlarm, too. I run ZoneAlarm plus use a router and I'm completely invisible on the internet and immune to those messenger service pop-ups.

[Cultural Jihad]

I believe the requester is talking about the buddy lists which cause the popups stating so-and-so is now online, etc.

scab: Look in the Tools/Options menu to turn off the Messenger popups, in the Preferences tab, and uncheck the "Display alerts when contact come online." There are a few of these types of alerts to check off or on.

[Doohickey]

"net stop messenger", then disable it.