How do I keep ads off my IMac

I am reading that MacKeeper and MacScan are ill advised, but I keep getting ad popups. How do I prevent this?

If you go to > Safari / Preferences / Security and make sure that Block pop-up windows is checked, it might help a little...? However the biggest problem is that many sites find ways to make big money passing those pop-up ad's thru, regardless of how good the pop-up blocker is. Personally if I run into a site that is pushing a lot of flaky pop-ups, I stop going to that site.

Similar Messages

How do I get info off my iMac hard drive now that it's out of the computer?

I was in a car accident recently. I'm okay, but I'm afraid my iMac did not survive. Before taking it to the insurance company to drop off the computer for reimbursement, I brought my computer to my local Apple Store to see if they could extract the data from the hard drive. (I've had this thing for years, so one can see that I would like to have what's on it.)
The Apple Store regretfully told me that they did not do this type of work and referred me to a nearby tech store that specialized in extracting data. I went there and they quoted me $80 for the hard drive's physical extraction and then another $30 for the information to be transferred onto a USB drive (or the equivalent). I was called a day later to be told that the mission was impossible, but I could go somewhere else that would charge me $1699 without tax and without a guarantee that they could actually perform the job.
Let's face it - that's a lot of money.
I went home and researched how to get my hard drive out of the computer and did so without much hassle. I've since then turned in the other parts to the insurance company as they were broken and useless.
Now I have a hard drive sitting on my counter without any idea how to get the information off and onto an external storage unit. Is there any way I can get the data myself?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time.

Whether or not you are able to recover the data off the drive yourself will depend on if the drive suffered any impact damage in the crash. You can buy USB SATA or IDE adapters (Intel and almost all G5 use SATA) that will let you connect your hard drive to a computer (like a flash drive) to see if you can recover the data. If the drive has suffered physical damage if may not mount.
If you know someone who has one of these adapters you could try using theirs, otherwise you could buy one but you take the risk of the data on the drive being non recoverable. Regardless, both are much cheaper than $1699!
(Alternatively, if you know of someone with a Mac Pro or PowerMac G5 they may be able to install the drive in their machine and try to boot from or mount it and copy the data off.)

Firefox 10 desktop shortcut reappears after deletion how can I keep it off desktop?

I keep removing the desk top shortcut and within the day it reappears on its own. I use the quick launch bar at bottom of Windows 7 to launch firefox I don't need the extra shortcut. How can I keep the shortcut off my desktop?
Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit. AMD Athlon II x4 630 processor.
Visionman Barebone PC

Make sure that Firefox gets installed properly.
Open the DMG file and drag to Firefox program to the application folder on your hard drive.
You shouldn't double-click the Firefox application to run it from the disk image, but drag it out of the DMG folder instead.
See:
* [[Installing Firefox on Mac]]
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Installing_Firefox#Mac_OS_X

How do i clean fingerprints off my iMac 27" screen?

I have the 27" late 2012 model iMac and was wondering how to clean fingerprints off the screen.While my family does a videochat we kinda move the scrrenup,down,left or right to view the whole room and nov there are fingerprints on the screen.If i clean them the screen becomes even worse.I cant buy anything too expensive.
Thanks,
smatef

I have a similar problem though I have the 21.5", in my case I followed the cleaning directions exactly (except in a few cases where I got some of the cleaning fluid on the display, old habit I guess as that's what the instructions on the cleaner I occasionally use says).
Anyway, even when I follow the directions exactly I am left with smear marks on the glass that can take at least a fortnight to completely eradicate. Regardless of whether I am using water or an LCD cleaning solution.
Something about the newer anti-glare coating is preventing proper cleaning of the display!
Is there a workaround solution, an officially licensed cleaning solution designed for the new coating, or am I doomed to take weeks to clean my screen each time?
I didn't have this problem with my early 2006 iMac 17", with that one I could use the cleaning solution and a quick wipe with both sides of the provided cloth and the screen was like new.

How can you delete programs off the imac g5 osx 10.5.8 completly. My goal is to gain more memory/gigs because my speed is dragging not to mention i only have like 14 free gigs

My imac g5 osx 10.5.8 is running slow and getting froze alot some programs just take forever. If someone knows how to remove programs safely could you please help me. I don't want to make a mistake that's unfixable. Like, i.e ( operating firefox now ,but i have a safari app. Do i need safari ? Am i even running that at all ?) Also i have 4 dvd players-imovie,dvd player,mac the ripper and front row do i need all them ?
And quicktime but running bit torrent. If anyone knows where to download good games for my version i would appreciate it also rpg,action,strategy,puzzle please and thanks.

bjones81 wrote:
Thank you so much ...
You're Welcome. Enjoy your Mac.
http://www.apple.com/findouthow/mac/

How do i keep itunes off of my C drive

so im still going through the problem that itunes wants to be on my C drive and wont go away. i installed it to my D drive, had a problem earlier today with low space on my C and i see that itunes has set itself up in my "my music" folder and its over 4 gigs. no... F no... so i move it to the destination where i thought i installed it, which it did have itunes and other mac stuffs in there. so i copy paste from my C to the D, everything go fine but now its like itunes is fresh from being installed. thats another story, so i see in preferences that it sets a itunes media folder on C as default. ok... so i change that and then go to unF'ing my apps and itunes stuff. and so while im doing this i check my C drive again after i synced my phone and it uploaded the apps and there it is again... and now its a gig. what do i do now? is there a setting that im missing or something? im already ****** enough as it is that it defaults to the C after being installed on the D and now i have to redo everything for my play lists and it seems to have killed off all the apps i had. i didn't sync or apply the apps or anything because this error came up but now there nowhere to be found. is there a way i can recover them? im trying to bottle my rage right now, this has been a major set back. why didn't it automatically save to the partition where it was installed? anyhow, let me know if there's anything i can do here.

The iTunes application is normally installed to C:\Program Files. If you changed the target location during install then the application should have been installed where you requested. That said, various support files may still have been placed in the C:\Program Files\Common Files folder and the user's profile folder.
The iTunes library is normally created in the user's Music folder regardless of where the application has been installed. If you had redirected your documents folder to somewhere on D:\ then the iTunes library would have followed this too.
If you press and hold down shift when starting iTunes you can create a new library or choose an existing one. Depending on how you moved your original library from C:\ to D:\ you should be able to use this technique now to reconnect to your original media collection that you moved to drive D:. Alternatively use the method to create a new library at D:iTunes. You can then move the various bits of media, iOS application files etc. into the *D:\iTunes\iTunes Media\Audomatically Add to iTunes* folder to rebuild the library.
tt2

How do i get malware off my iMac

thanks for reading i am getting a lot of 3rd part site popping up and maleware and i don't know how to really get ride of all of it
i have OSX yosemite and again thanks for your time

Click here and follow the instructions, or if they don't cover the type of adware on the computer, these ones. If you're willing to use a tool to remove it(you don't need to, but may find it easier), you can instead run Adware Medic; this link is a direct download.
(119497)

How come everytime I turn off my imac it turns of my airport extreme base station for about 1 minute?

I really need advice, Im really getting annoyed by this even though its 1 minute. Any advice?

Try Resetting the AirPort Base Station

How do I keep FaceTime off the Dock?

Before you suggest that I right click on the icon and check remove from dock, I've done that. As a matter of fact, I've done it many times only to have it return the next time I start up my MacBook. It is very frustrating to continue to see this App return to the dock after I removed it. Could someone please help me out here.

You could follow one of the suggestions in this Discussion and see if it helps.

How do I take LION off my IMac and reinstall Leopard

The upgrade to Lion is the worst thing I have done to my MAC. I would like to re-install Leopard but when I put in the disk the message comes up stating I can not do that.
Since installing LION I have lost the following:
My ability to to use my Microsoft 2004 Office products.
I can no longer print on my Epson 3880 printer. I am a professional photographer and this has put me out of business.
My Epson 4180 scanner will no longer scan negatives.
My ability to print from Adobe Lightroom is all messed up.
Get me back to Leopard please!

Not really. Well office, yes that is correct since it is 7 years old. Your printer, well have you looked for any updated drivers from Epson?

Since I have downloaded IOS5 on my IPAD and synced to my IMac, Safari keeps dropping off before downloading the website, is slow, also an icon which accessed open safari windows is no longer available. Apps trouble too. Help?

Since I have downloaded IOS5 on my IPAD2 and synced to my IMac, Safari keeps dropping off before site is downloaded and is slow. There was an icon that showed how many windows were open on Safari and when pressed displayed them, that has disappeared and apps do not always download. Sometimes by making several/many attempts, it eventually downloads the website or app, but this is not right. When trying to dowload any lonks from an email, they simply do not open, it keeps going back to the home screen. Does anybody have any suggestions? I only bought the IPAD 2 in June!

Also the touch screen does not seem to be responding adequately. Thank you for any help you can give.

How can i keep my imac downloading when it goes to sleep ?

how can i keep my imac downloading when it goes to sleep ?

Its possible to keep downloding files when the imac turn off the display ?

My imac keeps turning off and restarting by itself

My iMac keeps turning off and restarting by itself. Any ideas why and how to fix it? Thanks.

Hi ...
Try Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)

How is it best to keep files synced between iMac and Macbook? I work from home on my iMac and then out in meetings on my Macbook and need to have access to the same files on both.

How is it best to keep files synced between iMac and Macbook? I work from home on my iMac and then out in meetings on my Macbook and need to have access to the same files on both. The folders are using Microsoft programmes as this is compatiable with 90% of my colleagues, therefore I can't use the Icloud service.

No, the camera connection kit only supports the copying of photos and videos to the Photos app, it doesn't support copying content off the iPad. For your second camera instead of the SD reader part of the kit, does the iPad to camera cable not work with it for direct transfer to the iPad ?
For Lightroom and Nikon software again no - you can only install apps that are available in the iTunes app store on your computer and the App Store app on the iPad, 'normal' PC and Mac (OS X) software are not compatible with the iPad (iOS). There are some apps that perform fairly basic editing functions that are available in the store, but nothing as sophisticated as, for example, Lightroom.

I just replaced my hard drive on my imac and now when i turn the computer on the fan is running and slowly gets louder and louder. how do i turn it off?

I just replace my hard drive on my imac and now when i turn the computer on the fan starts running and keeps getting louder. How do i turn it off?
thanks.

If your machine was made after 2009 you probably installed th wrong HD. Beginning in 2009 Apple began using HD's that had an integrated fan sensor. If you did not use one of these drives then that is the problem. You should contact OWC (www.macsales.com) or visit your local AASP and they will help you select the correct HD to use.

How do I keep ads off my IMac

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for