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How to disable drive toast notification (Scan and Fix Removable Disk)?
Windows 8 keeps popping up this toast notifications
I tried to disable them by menu, group policy, stopped the shell hardware detection and set following registry keys:
REG ADD "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\...
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Annoying game popup
I have a windows 8 PC and my son recently got a free game off the appstore. I don't know how to uninstall it and it keeps sending popups telling me to play the game. How do I end this?
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How to get rid of this peculiarly nasty pop up ad? [duplicate]
I've read through the posts here and tried many things suggested in the posts: I looked into my Task Manager and couldn't find any suspicious processes running; I did a full system scan with Windows ...
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Extra page when clicking on link
When I click on a link in my email or on a webpage when it starts to go to the page an 'extra' page will open also, a page that is not related to any that I have open. My laptop is two weeks old. I ...
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The Windows 8 News app is popping up alerts. How do I make it stop? [duplicate]
Lately I've noticed that while I'm doing other things on my Windows 8 PC, the Windows 8 News app will pop up an alert in the upper-right corner now and then about a news story.
How do I turn that off?...
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Keep "toast" notifications up until I close them?
I want the toast notifications to stay up until I:
Hover over the toast
Click on it (it currently closes after this)
Click the X (also, currently closes after this)
Basically, keep it open until I ...
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How to disable popup messages in Windows 8?
Windows 8 keeps popping up irritating messages at all odd times at the top of the screen:
These seem to be like some sort of new balloon tips. How do I get rid of these permanently?
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