How do I stop pop ups on the desktop on Windows 10?
These are not pop up ads that happen on a web site.
They happen on my desktop as little pop ups in the lower right corner of my computer screen.
They look like this video I recorded here:
I do not know if they are tied somehow to another program working – like the Windows 10 mail program – or if they are a feature of chrome, but they are outside any other running program.
Have you checked the various auto start places in the register?
Have you tried to view or rule out all current processes in the system? Forgive me for not remember too much of the Windows I’ve used, does Crl+Alt+Del bring up the system/process monitor option in your version?
That is a good idea. That is a good place to look. I ran CCleaner and clicked on the Registry option, but, sadly, there is nothing there. But I poked around for a bit and I found these things:
I did never use CCleaner, I could always use the Autorun tool from Sysinternals.
I usually went to the registry to clean up messy things manually. The registry search tool was quite useful. You could always export suspicious sections to easily examine and change or retrieve them.
I also had good use of various free tools provided by “Sysinternals” (Winternals).
Maybe some of their good system tools became implemented in Windows?
I’ll look closer at your images later. Perhaps anyone knowledgeable of W10 comes by before that.
Also in my status area (many people erroneously call it a system tray) there is an icon that when I hover over it it gives me the status of notifications and Focus Assist. When I left-click it gives more information and when I right-click it gives a few options.
The likely source is from Windows Notification Service (WNS) also called a push service. There seem to be multiple ways for applications executing in a browser to show notifications. We can subscribe to notification from a website; I always say no but you probably authorized notifications because they are not honest about what they are asking. There is a way to see all such subscriptions but I cannot find that now. One thing to look for is Site permissions in your browser settings. Other browsers might call it something else. In Site permissions look at Notifications and Pop-ups and redirects (your browser might use different terminology) especially.
Also look for a task manager in your browser. Chrome has a task manager.
And we get to there from settings by going to Privacy and security then under Permissions going to Notifications. And I did say that (generally) to look at Notifications in Site permissions. That is not what I found a couple of months ago but perhaps the name and format has been changed since then.
Oh, come on. I gave the alternative path to say that I had already said that. The implication being that since I said it explicitly it was not the other something (that I am being vague about because I don’t know anything more) that you were suggesting it was. People are voting your response up but it is something I had already said, you only provided a direct address for it.