James, In this day and age people naturally point their cursors on links. If it is not a link I posted in my message it is a problem. Garden web, can post all of the links they want in messages they post themselves for all I care. I already pay a few fee's for the priviledge of posting in quality forums. This is not about free or fee. This is about my postings being altered to include information that I don't want in my posting. If I were to post a link here it would not appear in bold green with a double underline, it would appear in puke blue at the bottom of my message! This site needs members to survive, and if they think altering peoples postings for a quick dime is going to build their membership, then the people who run this site are plain stupid. When I post a message, it's my message, even if I post it here. If they add anything to my message, It's abuse plain and simple. You would think they could be smart enough to generate an income with integrity and respect for their membership. Maybe their not? sheesh

Good news for those of us that use firefox with adblock plus with Ricks easylist subscription. I found an old post by Rick about these exact ads on a forum, Rick has passed away of course but his work is being continued. Here is what he had to say. "I ABSOLUTELY HATE THOSE!!!! Those text-popups are always a priority for me when I add to the EasyList when I go surfing (and thanks for the kudos guys :-) ). I'm sure many others besides myself use the mouse pointer like a finger in a book. To have a stupid window keep popping up over the text I'm trying to read is worse than 10 flash ads on a page ... at least graphical ads don't block the page text. The EasyList should kill ALL those. here is a link to the discussion on mozillazine Stop The Annoying Vibrant In-Text Advertising

Most of the checkboxes there are for things that actually don't take up much room, and don't make much difference either way. These take up room and are worth deleting : Temporary Internet files Temp files (especially) Recycle bin (especially) The rest you can think of as historical traces of things you've done. If you're a privacy nut you might want to keep them checked for deletion. Otherwise, it really doesn't make much difference. For example : Run (in Start menu) Clipboard "Run" would be things you've typed into the Run box. If you deleted them, then the next time you use the Run box they won't predicatively autofill. If you're not a power user that won't make any difference to you. Clipboard - kind of the same thing. I have a clipboard add-on that saves the last 20 things I copied & pasted. Deleting that list would clear those 20 things, and i wouldn't be able to paste them again. Memory dumps & Chkdsk file fragments are, for the former, leftovers from crashes that can help diagnose those crashes, and for the latter, just file fragments of corrupted files also probably from some kind of crash. You pretty much never need them. Basically the only things you really should think of clearing out are the Temporary Internet files (the Internet Explorer cache), Recycle bin,, and temp files, all of which take up space. Those are the only things i check for deletion. You can leave Windows Error Reporting and Event files - they might help to diagnose a problem if it should come up. Everything else, it doesn't really matter either way. None of them remove actually programs or anything of the like. Good luck, Kent

Win98 and WinME 1. Disk Clean Up Click 'Start' >'Programs' >'Accessories' >'System Tools' >'Disk Cleanup'. Select the drive you wish to clean and click "OK". Select desired Options. Click 2. Clean Cookies, Temporary Folders, Temporary Internet Files and History From the Desktop, open 'My Computer' >C Drive >Windows >Cookies Select all files..right click and select "Delete". Return to the Windows folder. Scroll to and open the 'Temp' folder. From the toolbar at the top of the window, click "Tools">Viewing Options. Check to insure that "Show All Files" is selected. Select all the files within the "Temp" folder and delete them. Return to the Windows folder. Locate and open the 'Temporary Internet Files' folder. Select all files within the "Temporary Internet Files" folder, right click and select "Delete". Return to the Windows directory. Locate the "History" folder. Select all files within and delete. Return to the C Drive directory. Locate the "Temp" folder. Open it and delete all files within. 3. Remove Unwanted or Unused Programs To view programs installed on your computer, click 'Start' >Control Panel >Add/Remove Programs. To remove a program, select and click the 'Add/Remove' button. After uninstalling a program, you should re-start the computer. If you are going to uninstall more than one program, re-start the computer after each is removed. 4. Scan Disk It is a good idea to shut-down your Antivirus program prior to running Scandisk and Defrag. Click Start>Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Scan Disk. Select a drive to scan. You will notice an option to perform a "Thorough' scan. Unless you are having issues with the hard drive, it is not necessary to do a 'thorough' scan. A 'thorough' scan can take a great deal of time to complete, whereas a 'Normal' scan does not. Select "Convert fragmented files to freespace". Click OK. Remember...you cannot do anything else on the computer while running Scandisk. 5. Defrag You should run Defragmenter after running Scandisk. Click 'Start' >Programs>Accessories>System Tools> Defragmenter. Select the drive and click 'Defragment'. Restart the Computer upon completion. Remember... you cannot do anything else on the computer while running Defrag.