Questions tagged [popups]
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How to create a reminder that behaves like the auto shutdown warning?
I have a bad habit of ignoring reminders, but there was a time I had automatic shutdown active and the warning it sent was super effective at breaking my focus. The problem is I don't know how to ...
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How to identify which USB device is failing?
Every 2 minutes or so, Windows 11 pops up a box telling me that a "USB device not recognized".
I have unplugged everything except the mouse/keyboard, and rebooted the PC, but the message ...
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Powershell.exe does not prompt for credentials
When I use Get-Credential or Start-Process -Cred, a pop-up asking for credentials appears, meaning username and password. You can even prefill the username by passing it as argument.
Sometimes ...
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How to prevent ads for Windows AI from popping up on my computer?
I opened my Windows image viewer today and got a popup ad that said "Edit your images using AI...learn more (hyperlinked)". I don't want to use AI on my desktop and didn't ask for this ...
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How to stop being bothered by "Sign in with Google" prompts? [closed]
I have spent hours researching how to do this, but I think it is time to ask for help.
80% of websites I visit display a box in the upper right corner asking me to "Sign in with Google."
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How to determine the source of a popup window on a Windows 11 computer (popup possibly from Logitech)?
On a new Windows 11 computer, when plugging in the transceiver for a Logitech wireless mouse, a popup suddenly appeared with the text:
Logitech Options+ software
To experience the full functionality ...
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How to get rid of the sign-in prompt for Microsoft Office 365?
Every time I open one of the Office 365 applications on my personal Windows 10 desktop, I get this sign-in prompt.
I'm already signed into Office 365 with my personal Microsoft account. This pop-up ...
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Remove popup when opening apps from URL protocol in Chrome
I want to add bookmarks for certain apps, like vscode:// or ms-calculator://. It's sort of annoying to have to manually click the "A website wants to open this application" popup.
Is there ...
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Mystery daily Explorer popup window trying to view my my boot partition
Something is mounting my boot partition (the 100MB partition with the Windows boot loader) as drive I: and opening it in Windows Explorer, leaving an Access denied error popup. It happens every day. I ...
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Annoying popup in Windows 11. How do I get rid of it?
My desktop PC is using Windows 11.
Starting a few days back, every 15 minutes or so I get the following annoying popup:
Which fades away after a few seconds. I cannot click or right-click on it.
I ...
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Automatically closing ('OK'-ing) a Windows Script Host dialogue box from a batch script
I have an incredibly annoying problem where my Win 10 license keeps randomly deactivating for no reason. Sometimes it lasts weeks without doing it but recently it seems to be doing it every other day. ...
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Batch (or some other file) to have scheduled in Task Scheduler for a popup that leads to a website
I am trying to create a batch file (or some other file) to show a pop up reminder with a yes/no option that I can get set up to run at a designated time in task scheduler. This will be planned to run ...
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The "No new notifications" notification happens even after I turn off notifications in Windows 11. How to turn it off?
I have turned off notifications in Windows 11.
However, I still get the "No new notifications" popup when my mouse is near the right bottom corner.
Occasionally, this is on top of the ...
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How do I block this MS Edge pop-up dialog on browser close?
Microsoft Edge of late has begun repeatedly showing me this pop-up dialog almost every time I try to close its window after a browsing session (cannot predict or figure out what causes it not to show ...
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Keep on getting weird, random "Install failed" messages on Windows 10
I keep on getting weird messages saying it can't install something from my temp folder.
I have zero idea what could be causing it.
Edition Windows 10 Home
Version 22H2
Installed on 8/1/2021
OS ...