Thread: Aggravating Popup won't desist

Its a program that has been installed on your machine. Ad blocker won't do anything as its technically not a popup.

Go to your installed programs list in your control panel search for the program and uninstall it.

If you get CCleaner (free), you will find it is Startup item to run in memory or a Scheduled Task.

A picture is attached of where to locate these items. Just deactivate or delete the culprit.

Thank you chaps.

Originally Posted by tonzeyd

Go to your installed programs list in your control panel search for the program and uninstall it.

I can't see any likely suspects in the list, so maybe I should wait until next time, and then open the task manager to see what is running?

Originally Posted by woodPixel

If you get CCleaner (free), you will find it is Startup item to run in memory or a Scheduled Task.

A picture is attached of where to locate these items. Just deactivate or delete the culprit.

I have Ccleaner, so I did as you suggested, and again I can't see anything likely. In Windows there is definitely nothing (only 7 enabled: Ccleaner, Logitech, Microsoft, Toshiba x2, Adobe Gamma Loader.exe.lnk whatever that is, andShellFolderFix.lnk.

In Scheduled Tasks, again, nothing relating to Sourceforge, pdfforge, PDF Creator or PDF Architect.


However, in the Context Menu there are a couple from pdfforge, but I don't know if it's them or not. I have disabled the 7 occurences of 7zip or winzip.

I ran Malwarebytes as well and got the following results:

I guess I should quarantine them, but none of them look likely.

I used to use PDFCreator from PDFforge some years ago and eventually installed PDFArchitect to help edit PDFs at some time, however once windows 10 came along with its Microsoft Print to PDF I have had no use for it. I'd just remove any programs installed from PDFForge. As a PDF reader I now use Nitro, which has standard features that allow me to do all the sort of PDF markups I usual need.

Thanks Franklin, but I have VBE code that runs PDF Creator, so I don't want to lose that option. Mind you, these days I don't run it in auto very often....if at all....

It seems that it might be a problem with PDF Architect:
How to disable desktop ads in PDF Architect 3 - English Help - pdfforge forums

The weird thing I'm finding out now is that when I open a pdf it is in version 5, but the list of pgms only shows version 4. ¿Que?

I'll see what happens tomorrow, but I may need to shut down those two managers that showed up (vers 4 and 5) on Ccleaner.

do you mean vba code? if so you should be able to run it with any pdf creater, ie it'll recognise your default pdf program and print to pdf with whatever is your default. eg at work for whatever reason we have a program called "cutepdf" and my code which previously ran using adobe pdf works perfectly fine.

Alternatively there might be an option in your program that will allow you to disable notifications. Take a look at your options menu