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Okay so I just got a new computer
Its windows vista
From the Circut City closest to my housee
Anyway, this computer was the display one, so it had thise stupid popup that comes up if you dont move the mouse for like 3 minutes
It says something about 'Check out firefox" and something about computers
It pisses me off

How can I remove that?
Step by step details please?

Personally, I would reinstall Windows. You don't know what kind of spyware Circuit City installed to see what their customers were doing to the computer.

To remove the screensaver, right click an empty space on the desktop (anywhere that doesn't have an icon). Choose "personalize". Click "screen saver". Change the screen saver to something else.

If that doesn't work, go to start, run (or press WinKey+R). Type:
msconfig
Go to the "startup" tab. Uncheck everything that you don't need and click ok. Unchecking anything in that tab will never break the computer, so experiment until the screensaver is gone. Don't mess with anything in the other tabs.

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(Rating: 5) Thank you SO much
Its gone now(:
The second thing you told me to do worked(:


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