Flashing adverts with Internet Explorer 9

wadewade

I recently accepted an offer to upgrade to Internet Explorer 9 but since then I have been plagued with adverts popping up everywhere on my hotmail account, for example they flash up randomly on the left hand side of the screen and briefly obscure the folders list.

Is there some way I can stop these adverts popping up, please?

Hammyman

Install Adblock.

danmanchester

Hammyman wrote: »

Install Adblock.

+1

http://simple-adblock.com/

That's the one I use for IE9

birkee

At the top, click on the little spanner symbol, and from the drop down menu, select 'toolbar options'.
Click on 'block pop up's'.

And don't use hotmail! Very vulnerable.

wadewade

Sorry Birkee I can't see a spanner, which page does it appear on please?

Hammyman

Press f1. Type in block popups.

RussJK

Hammyman wrote: »

Goes to show that people should stand up when listening to heavy metal...

wadewade

Hammyman, when I press f1 I get 4 squares come up the first of which says Disconnect Projector and the others are similar so I think I must be doing something wrong?

Enterprise_1701C

I am having the same problem, but the block popups is already ticked on mine. Only been the last couple of days too, had IE9 for a while before it started this nonsense.

Do you have to pay for adblock?

dogmaryxx

Jane_Blackford wrote: »

Do you have to pay for adblock?

The Free and Pro version includes the same features, but the free version is limited to blocking 200 adrequests per day. When installing the Free version there is a 30 day trial period, where the adblock limit is removed

Hammyman

wadewade wrote: »

Hammyman, when I press f1 I get 4 squares come up the first of which says Disconnect Projector and the others are similar so I think I must be doing something wrong?

Yes...your function keys are not working as function keys but shortcut keys so you need to find the key on your keyboard that changes them back to function keys - usually has Fn on it.

You will then find that for whatever application is the foreground one - the active one - that pressing f1 brings up the help function and there you can type in your question and you'll get the answer.