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What Is Popup Slapdown
Popup windows are those advertising windows that appear when you visit some web sites--trying to sell you credit cards, little cameras, movie and TV previews, and more.

Popup Slapdown is a popup window blocker for Internet Explorer that keeps all those ad windows from appearing. It works simply (and even invisibly) in your web browser. When a popup window is detected and blocked, a sound will be played, and the main Internet Explorer window will be flashed. (You can change how those work if you don't want it to flash, etc.)

Some websites do show "good" popup windows you will want, like when you click the "help" for a site, it may popup in a new window. Usually they will appear just fine, but somtimes Popup Slapdown will block them too. If needed, you can hold the CTRL key down when opening a webpage to allow any popups. Another way with more options is to add Popup Slapdown's button to your main Internet Explorer toolbar.

With the "Smart memory" checkbox, you can set so Popup Slapdown better remembers sites where you have allowed popups. With "Smart memory" turned on, Popup Slapdown will remember the sites when you hold the CTRL key and always allow popups for those websites.

Adding the Button: This picture: shows the Popup Slapdown toolbar button that can be added into Internet Explorer. This lets you easily allow or block popups for each website. When you click that button, it will show a menu to allow/block popups for the website you're viewing.

To add the button, Right click the toolbar in Internet Explorer and pick "Customize..." from the menu (like the menu shown to the right.) Or pick the View->Toolbars->Customize... menu item in the main menu for Internet Explorer.

When the "Customize Toolbar" window shows, just scroll down on the left side until you find the "Popup Slapdown Options" item. Pick it, then click the Add button in the middle. You can use the other choices to move that button around if you wish.