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How to stop popup box in bottom right corner of screen (Windows 10)? [duplicate]

Recently every time I move my cursor anywhere near the bottom-right of my screen an irritating popup with news stories etc. appears above my taskbar. It is very distracting and it obscures my screen ...
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Disable Microsoft Edge Pop-up Notifications in Taskbar and System Tray

I recently started seeing popup notifications from Microsoft Edge when I try to open another browser like Firefox or Chrome: Is there any way to disable these popups without uninstalling Microsoft ...
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Windows 7 taskbar preview popup - How to keep it open? [duplicate]

In Windows 7, I would like to keep the thumbnail preview of an application in the taskbar open even when the mouse is not hovering over the icon in the taskbar. Is this possible and if so, how? Like ...
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Win7: sort icons in "desktop" popup/toolbar

I've right clicked my task bar and selected Desktop in the Toolbars submenu. This now shows a Desktop >> button left to the tray area. When I click this button, a popup with my desktop icons opens ...
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Change taskbar pop-up response time

In Windows 7, when you hover over an application icon on the taskbar, a popup appears with an image of the open application in it. Very useful, but it's kind of slow. This seems to take about a half ...
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How do I disable the popup balloons in Windows XP?

We've all seen them. They're the distracting yellowish popup balloons that appear over the notification area in the Windows XP taskbar. A common one is for taking the Windows XP tour after a fresh ...
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