These blasted things are called something like 'dynamic advertising' that show up when you are reading an article and something is underlined in green. If your mouse hovers over it for a fraction of a second too long, a box pops up that shows you "helpful" links to advertisers and then the box hangs there for a minute, covering up what you were reading. Its annoying and I can't figure out how to get rid of it.

Ah, now I understand better what you mean.

Sadly, this is not exclusive to Bing. A lot of engines do that thinking they are being super helpful. The best way around that is to keep your mouse far, far away from the underlining. Yahoo used to have that but I guess they got so many complaints that they did away with it, because I haven't seen any in a long time.

Microsoft has a tendency to embed their systems in the hard-drive of their computers.

However, all you have to do to get around this is download another search engine, like Yahoo or Google, and change your settings so that it becomes your default.

These blasted things are called something like 'dynamic advertising' that show up when you are reading an article and something is underlined in green. If your mouse hovers over it for a fraction of a second too long, a box pops up that shows you "helpful" links to advertisers and then the box hangs there for a minute, covering up what you were reading. Its annoying and I can't figure out how to get rid of it.

why can't you un-install Bing?

Microsoft has a tendency to embed their systems in the hard-drive of their computers.

However, all you have to do to get around this is download another search engine, like Yahoo or Google, and change your settings so that it becomes your default.

I would be happy if I could get rid of Bing and the blasted pop up boxes that show up when you are reading an article.

why can't you un-install Bing?

Heidi can answer that question better than I can.

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What are pop-ups?

isn't that a type of popsicle?

I don't use any of the custom ones, I just don't have the time to go through the choices.

you can find one in a minute or two...no need to spend hours haha

I had some time today to browse through them. I used to have the solar system up there but got tired of it. I liked an animated lightening one that was on page three or so. It was pretty cool. Guess I have a thing for lightening.

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i actually changed mine after making my post.

im not sure what it's called but it's very tranquil

it's light green with leaves /smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':(' /> For a while i wore

the Pink Floyd one /wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':D' />