I forgot the good stuff.

Which kind of pop ups do you mean? If you mean those gray box "messenger service" pop ups email me and I'll tell you how to get rid of them really easy. You don't have to download anything, just change a couple of settings. It doesn't matter what browser you use, they're not browser related.

I wanna know too---tell us all?

-- Jean S

Well, okay. On Widows 2000 and XP you need to find the Administrative tools. In XP open the control panel and click on "performance and maintenance" and then administrative tools. Open that and then double click on "services." Scroll down the list until you get to "messenger." Click on it to highlight it and then right click on it. Click on properties. In the box that opens up there is a little drop down menu arrow beside where it says start up type. In the box it says automatic. Change that to manual or disable. Then below that there's another area that says service status, click stop. Then click apply>ok and you're all done. No more nasty gray box pop ups!! You'll still get all the web site advertising pop ups though.

The instructions for windows 98 are a bit different. Let me know if anyone wants those.

Kathy, you are a doll. Thank you.

Susanne

You're welcome. I hate for anyone to have to suffer with those things, they're obnoxious and obscene.

Thank you---went & did it most promptly :-)))

-- Jean S

To stop the pop-up ads that come from a web site, get one of the "pop-up stopper" programs from downloads.com. To stop the kind that are sent to your computer through your DSL line, the only defense is a hardware firewall. A hardware firewall will also protect you from the kind of virus that is going around right now. They are not very expensive and some come with a built in router. We use ours to connect two computers to our DSL line. I have a SMC Barricade. I got it on E-Bay. Here's one for sale right now:

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On Saturday, my DH installed a new (something) in my computer, making it run twice as fast. But he forgot to re-install the Popup Stopper. When I complained to him -- our computers are in the same room about 5 feet apart-- he walked me through the re-installation. I liked it much better when I was still traveling. On Sunday he would say, "When you get back on Friday, you will have a new whatever in your computer, so you can whatever." Since he works late on Tuesdays, that left him three evenings to install and test run the installation, fixing any problems before I got home. Oh, how I miss the good old days! My son's MIL was widowed by cancer 5 years ago. Her DH had been one of those do-everything-for-the-little-lady men. His illness gave her time to learn to do things for herself while taking her mind off his suffering. More than once I saw her poring over one of those Computers for Dummies books. (I have looked into some of my DH's Dummies books and learned that I don't even rate high enough to be a dummy.) By the time she was widowed, she knew enough to order a computer with specific features built for her. Awesome!

Nell in Austin and in ignorance

"Susanne" wrote in message news:ISB%a.775275$ snipped-for-privacy@news1.calgary.shaw.ca...

If you have a cable modem or a DSL connection, you should definitely run a firewall; it's not quite so important if you use a dial-up connection, but might be valuable if you are online for long periods of time. I can give you a more technical explanation if you like.

I use Norton Internet Security, which has both the firewall and the virus protection. It does a pretty good job of stopping most popup ads.

Julia > To stop the pop-up ads that come from a web site, get one of the

Popup, shmopup. No quilting stores??? ai-yay-yay...

Head east to Montreal if necessary, the fabric stores have enough decent prints. Don't bother with Winnipeg unless you are prepared for $20 a metre for Hoffman or any big names. Mitchell Fabrics is the sole exception (and my grandmother shopped there...) in Wpg.

You're better off with the mail order--you will pay GST & PST from the US but you get anything you order. If you want to know who has a good scanner for online purchases, I would prefer to tell you separately from this list--I don't want to offend anybody selling fabric.

If you get REALLY desperate please let me know and I will make up a care package from the stash that is being edited. The stash REALLY needs to lose some weight...

Irene