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PopupDummy 3.29 - User Guide and FAQ
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How to Allow Good Popups
You can allow popup windows to display using 3 methods:
- Hold down the CTRL key as you click a link to bypass PopupDummy!.
- Enable the option Allow Manual Popups to let PopupDummy! display popup links that you manually click on.
- Enter part of this website's URL in the Safe Sites and PopupDummy! will always
remember not to block popups from this site. Example entries are: mail.yahoo.com, mail.lycos.com
- Netscape Users Enter a substring of the web page's TITLE in the Safe Sites and PopupDummy! will always remember not to block popups from this site.
If a popup-producing adware module, such as Gator or SaveNow!, is running on your system, it will be blocked to prevent it from displaying popups. To disable this feature, simply turn off the checkmark for Enable Ad-ware Protection.
Managing the Block List
PopupDummy! already blocks 90% of all popups without adding any window titles and without you even seeing a single flash. It does this by monitoring Microsoft Internet Explorer. However, many programs also produce popups on their own. These programs are also called Ad-ware programs.
PopupDummy! can not automatically catch these popups, but it certainly can kill them! For instance KaZaa, Grokster, LimeWire, BearShare, iMesh, NetZero, and AudioGalaxy users will find frequent popups quite annoying. Following the steps below each time you receive a popup, will quickly eliminate all popups coming from those programs.
For the shortcut to blocking Ad-Ware popups using the tray-icon next to your clock, see Adding Popups to your Block List. For the standard procedure of steps, read below:
- When the popup appears, do not close it. Leave it open.
- Click the Block List button to open the screen of window titles.
- Click Add to insert a new window title.
You can also enter a window title using 3 methods:
- Click Browse to select a currently displayed popup window title.
- Enter an exact window title to have blocked. For example: Instant Offer
- Enter a sub-string of a window title and include * at the end of the string. This is like adding a wildcard so any window title than contains the string you entered will be blocked. For example: Instant Offer*
- Click Browse to display all the window titles currently open on your desktop. You should see the popup window title in this list. Select it and click OK.
- Upon clicking OK and having the new window title entered in the list, the original popup window that you saw should now be closed by PopupDummy! and you should not see it again in the future (except for a brief flash before it is closed again by PopupDummy!).
If the popup window does not close automatically after clicking OK, you may not have typed the window title exactly as it appears. Click REMOVE to erase the entry, and re-try it again.
The Response Rate feature lets you set how fast you want PopupDummy! to react and close popup windows that it detects from the Filters list. Setting it to the fastest may take up more CPU time.
Note, when you change the response rate, you will need to restart the program or wait until the next time you run it to see the changes.
Adding Popups to your Block List:
- When you see a popup, don't close it. Leave it open.
- Right-click on the PopupDummy! tray icon next to your clock and select the menu item Add to Block List to bring up the block list.
- You can block the popup using 3 methods:
- Click Browse to select a currently displayed popup window title.
- Enter an exact window title to have blocked. For example: Instant Offer
- Enter a sub-string of a window title and include * at the end of the string. This is like adding a wildcard so any window title than contains the string you entered will be blocked. For example: Instant Offer*
- Click OK.
- Click OK. The popup will now be killed and will not appear again.
Repeat the above steps each time a new popup appears. Ad-Ware programs typically only display between 5-6 different Ad-ware popup types. This means, after blocking 5-6 of the popups, you should have most of them blocked.
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