Annoying popup list

[George]

I disabled the touchpad (by Synaptics) on my Dell notebook since I use a
Kensington Wireless mouse (thru the USB port).



Ever since I did that, I will sporadically get this annoying popup list of 5
websites that I visited maybe 3 or 4 weeks ago, definitely not more recent
than that. The popup presents itself when I move the mouse pointer - as I
said, sporadically and not always, and will be very near the pointer,
anywhere on the screen.



There is no right-click menu. The popup list does not show the URL of the
website, just the one-word name of the site, such as Yahoo, CNN, Mapquest,
etc. Here's what I have tried so far:



1. The list is always the same, so I did a registry search for each of the
words in the hope of finding them all together under a key that I could
delete, but did not come up with anything.



2. Checked the different settings in Mouse in Control Panel but did not see
anything that would have a bearing on this. Maybe I missed something there?



3. Re-enabled the touchpad, but it made no difference - the popup will pop
up when you least expect it.



4. Did a system restore to a date before I disabled the touchpad - popup
didn't go away.



5. Checked both TweakUI and FreshUI for any possible tweaks there, but
could not find any that might apply.



6. Ran SpyBot and AdAware, which found a few items they removed, but it
made no difference.



If anyone has any ideas, no matter how far-fetched, of where else I could
check, I would be grateful for any suggestions.



I am pasting below a very small binary to illustrate the problem better.



Thanks for any help.



George



P.S. The problem may be totally unrelated to disabling the touchpad, but
that was when the problem showed up.



P.P.S. Pls. reply in ng; e-mail address is invalid.



This is what the

popup look like:

(without the borders)

 

[Guest]

Sure this is an easy one, If a web site(pop up, ect) get thru the security,
open resticted sites and add url there, no pop up will show from there again
and no cookie, Popups have about 10 flavors( ways there insert a unauthorized
web page) into the browser, once the web site is on the "resticted list" no
page will open from that web site, thats why they keep changing these web
site urls, all the time.
Rho_1r

 

[George]

OK, for those who might come across this thread in a future search, it turns
out that the popup is Kensington's way of alerting you that the batteries of
the wireless mouse need to be changed! As simple as that! The disabling of
the Synaptics touchpad was purely co-incidental.

George

I disabled the touchpad (by Synaptics) on my Dell notebook since I use a
Kensington Wireless mouse (thru the USB port).



Ever since I did that, I will sporadically get this annoying popup list of
5 websites that I visited maybe 3 or 4 weeks ago, definitely not more recent
than that. The popup presents itself when I move the mouse pointer - as I
said, sporadically and not always, and will be very near the pointer,
anywhere on the screen.



There is no right-click menu. The popup list does not show the URL of the
website, just the one-word name of the site, such as Yahoo, CNN, Mapquest,
etc. Here's what I have tried so far:



1. The list is always the same, so I did a registry search for each of
the words in the hope of finding them all together under a key that I could
delete, but did not come up with anything.



2. Checked the different settings in Mouse in Control Panel but did not
see anything that would have a bearing on this. Maybe I missed something
there?



3. Re-enabled the touchpad, but it made no difference - the popup will
pop up when you least expect it.



4. Did a system restore to a date before I disabled the touchpad - popup
didn't go away.



5. Checked both TweakUI and FreshUI for any possible tweaks there, but
could not find any that might apply.



6. Ran SpyBot and AdAware, which found a few items they removed, but it
made no difference.



If anyone has any ideas, no matter how far-fetched, of where else I could
check, I would be grateful for any suggestions.



I am pasting below a very small binary to illustrate the problem better.



Thanks for any help.



George



P.S. The problem may be totally unrelated to disabling the touchpad, but
that was when the problem showed up.



P.P.S. Pls. reply in ng; e-mail address is invalid.



This is what the

popup look like:

(without the borders)