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Deb
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Deb asked in Computers & InternetOther - Computers · 2 decades ago

help me please with my computer!?

I can't click on a lnik or hyperlink. I get a funny sound like a big drop og water.sometimes I can open certain ones.sometimes i can't pay my bills because when i click on payment it does that funny sound. even when i am on yahoo mail and they give those little bits of info in blue it sometimes won't let me go there. I know that these are all good sites. you know like when it says more info atc.

Update:

thank you who ever told me it was my pop up blocker it was the right answer. I went in to read the info and found out all i have to do is hold the contrl key down while clicking on the link!!! THANKS

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  • 2 decades ago
    Favorite Answer

    You probably have a pop-up blocker running that keeps closing new windows. Go to Tools > Pop-Up Blocker and turn it off (in Internet Explorer), or if you have a 3rd party pop-up blocker software, open it and turn it off while trying to pay your bills. The sound you describe is a classic "We just blocked a pop-up!" sound.

  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago

    I guess the pop up blocker is active on your IE Settings.

    Goto Control Panel --> Click on Internet Options

    Select the Privacy Tab --> Uncheck the Block Pop ups check box at the bottom.

    If you have any other tool bar installed on your Internet Explorer like the Google Tool Bar or Yahoo Tool Bar, Disable the Popup blocker from these Tool Bars.

    I hope this helps. Good Luck.

    Cheers!!!!

  • Mordak
    Lv 5
    2 decades ago

    You may have spyware read below to fix

    Since the questions you have asked is similar to a lot that appear on answers, I have prepared this to aid you. Topics covered are: Anti virus, Anti spy ware, Browsers, e-mail, Word processors, Database, Spreadsheets, Presentations, Drawings and Photo manipulations. All programmes described are free to use, some even for commercial use.

    Antiviral.

    AVG free. Excellent protection available from: http://www.grisoft.com/

    Don't use two antiviral products together as they may be incompatible. If your Antiviral trial has run out, then remove product from your computer and get the AVG installed.

    Anti-spyware

    Essential products are: Adaware SE from: http://www.lavasoft.com/

    Spybot SD http://www.safer-networking.org/en/spybotsd/index....

    Spywareblaster http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.htm...

    Windows Defender - from Microsoft downloads.

    Office Applications

    Open Office has an extremely good free to use and distribute product at http://www.openoffice.org/

    It contains programmes fully functional in Word-processing, Database, Spreadsheets, Drawing and Presentation. It looks and feels like Microsoft Office and can even make PDF's

    Photo-manipulations

    For ease of use and management of your photo files try Kodak easyshare software http://www.kodak.com/

    or Picasso. http://.picasa.google.com/

    For advanced and fully functional photographic manipulation gimp2 is very similar to Photoshop and is available from http://gimp.org/

    Browsers and E-mail programmes.

    Can recommend Firefox for browsing and has many safety features installed and is self updating and for a general e-mail programme, Thunderbird is very good. Go to:

    http://www.mozilla.com/products/

    Fun and helpful programmes

    Have a look at Calendar Magic, http://www.stokepoges.plus.com/calendar.htm

    it has lots of Scientific, Geometry, Factor and Expression calculators as well as Global distances, Sun and Moon Data, a Pregnancy Calculator, Time Data and Alarm clocks as well as an extremely comprehensive range of Calendars in about 27 different formats from Afghanistan to Vietnamese, including Chinese and Hindu.

    C Cleaner.http://www.ccleaner.com/

    This will tell you a lot about what is on your computer, such as running programmes,cookies, History, settings etc. and will help you clean up and remove unwanted items. Be careful how you use it as it is a very powerful programme and you should read the help index before you do anything with it.

    Hope this information is of help to you and others.

  • 2 decades ago

    This is caused by your security setting (you're using Internet Explorer right? if not just ignore me)

    Whenever you hear that sound, there should be a white yellowish bar appeared under the IE's address bar. right click on it then you'll just know what to do ;)

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  • 2 decades ago

    better call a computer engineer and get the screws placed right

  • 2 decades ago

    you have a spyware. you need Spyware Doctot. download it from here www.pctools.com

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