ARTICLE - Richard EASTMAN's Genealogy Newsletter Vol 6, #31 POW! Kills Web Pop-Up Ads If you surf the Web very much, you certainly have encountered those obnoxious pop-up ads. You go to somebody's personal home page on GeoCities or Tripod or any of a few thousand other sites, and a second, pop-up window appears that tries to sell something you have no interest in. Now a simple utility called POW! will automatically close pop-up windows for you. I tried it and found that POW! really works. POW! runs in the background on your Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000 computer. POW watches and waits for one of those nasty windows to open up and then POW! It slaps the miscreant ad down just like Adam West did when he was Batman! When you install POW! it already contains a list of many obnoxious pop-up ads; it will close any of those ads as soon as they appear on your screen. Best of all, you can configure POW! to close any new pop-ups that you run across. To add a pop-up ad to kill to the list, you wait until the pop-up appears and then click on the POW! icon in the System Tray. This will bring up a menu, where you select 'Add/Delete Popup'. This will bring up a listing of all the windows that are open on your computer at this moment that POW! can detect. Just highlight the listing for the window you want to automatically be killed in the future, which will appear at the bottom of this list; it will then appear on the POW! list. Next, click on 'OK', and you should see the window go bye-bye in a second! That particular pop-up ad will automatically be closed if it ever appears in the future on your computer. POW! is a free program. No ads or anything. I like free. It is also a tiny program and a quick download from: http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/pow.htm You can find a lot of useful free programs like POW! at: http://www.analogx.com