I made this program real quick because of all the people who complain about the Sprinks popups. Sure, if you switch to the ugly yellow vbsquare style, they go away, but it's... well... ugly.
I only consider them mildly annoying, but I'm happy to get rid of them, anyway.
Attached is a very small program that runs silently in the background and kills all Sprinks popups on sight. To start it, just run it. Nothing will seem to happen. That's because you're not even supposed to be able to tell it's running unless you press Ctrl+Alt+Del. To close it, just run it again and a message box will pop up asking if you want to close it. Just click Yes and it'll close.
The program was originally written in VB, but I decided to rewrite it in C++. Now it takes less CPU time and doesn't require the VB runtimes.
These are the browsers it should work with:
Internet Explorer (only tested with IE6, tho)
Netscape (tested with version 4.7 and 6, but should work on the other versions too)
K-Meleon (I have the browser on my computer, so I figured...why not)
It does not work with Opera because I don't find the popups annoying at all on that browser. If you want it to work with other browsers, including Opera, let me know.
The single solitary purpose of this app is to get rid of the sprinks popups. I hope you like it
The latest version is 1.03 now. Version 1.0 was the original VB version. Version 1.01 was the first C++ version. Version 1.02 is the second C++ version. Version 1.03 takes out some unnecessary code. The source for it is posted in another post in this thread.
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