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Friday, July 04, 2003

How to manually add a domain name to Panicware's Pop-Up Stopper Free edition.

I needed to do this because when using the Google Toolbar 2.0's Blogger button the window would pop up and disappear. Turning off Pop-Up Stopper and trying to add the domain name doesn't work because the pop-up window has no menus or toolbars.

Here are the steps:

  1. Start regedit

  2. Export the key
    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Panicware\Pop-Up Stopper Free\PopUpDomains]

  3. Open the exported file with a simple text editor and find the highest number "DomainX".

  4. Copy the line that includes "DomainX" and the next 15 lines.

  5. Paste this directly below the section you just highlighted/copied.

  6. Increment the "DomainX" by 1

  7. Now you must convert to pieces of information from ASCII to Hex. You need to convert the name or title of the site you are adding as well as the domain name without "HTTP://". Visit http://209.15.122.1/sookietex/ASCII2HEX.html for conversion.

  8. Just after "hex:" on the first line you need to replace these hex values with a hex values of the name or title. It must be pairs of letters separated by commas. Everything should line up like all of the other entries. You may have to utilize the second line for the title to fit.

  9. On the sixth line beginning in the 8th pair of letters is where you replace everything with the converted domain name.

  10. Save this file.

  11. Using Windows Explorer, navigate to the location of the file and click it. You will be warned about importing registry information. Click OK to continue.

  12. Now the new entry should be allowed to create a pop-up window.

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