BPS Popup Shield
BPS Popup Shield also allows you to block advertising banners that can be very annoying and distract from the page's actual content, in addition to wasting useful bandwidth. A small window appears at the right bottom side of your screen, each time a popup window is caught by the program. ... In addition You can view the Popup Count Window by selecting the Show Popup Count Window from the Program System Tray menu. ... The domain of the popup window is displayed in the Domains List, and the URL that has generated this popup in displayed in the Sites List.
http://www.bulletproofsoft.com/download/bpsps5001.exe - 5Mb - Download - Screenshot

SurfSecret PopupElimiantor
PopupEliminator™ blocks annoying popups and popunders that slow down and destroy your surfing experience. PopupEliminator™ installs in seconds and blocks all popups with an easy to use and customizable interface. By constantly eliminating popups, you will enjoy a faster web experience and not... It sits in the traybar quietly until it detects that a popup is about to be spawned from a window. ... It then intercepts the window call and gracefully discards it. ... Try it out for 30 days risk-free and see what you think!
http://www.popupeliminator.com/try/trial.exe - 781Kb - Download - Screenshot

GL-AD Popup Terminator
Say goodbye to annoying popup Ad window now! GleanerSoft Ad Popup Terminator is an intelligent popup killer that can identify the unwanted popup windows generated by web pages and kill them before they appear on the screen. It includes a user-friendly interface for you to customize it. ... [For Windows 2000/XP] - Prevent modeless dialog popup, a new breed of ad popup. ... - You can press Shift or ALT key at any time when browsing web pages to disable ad popup killer temporarily and show all popup window.
http://www.gleanersoft.com/download/pack/glad.exe - 807b - Download - Screenshot

BestToolbars.net Pop Stop popup killer
Tired of those annoying popups ruining your surfing experience? Download and install in second freeware Pop Stop popup blocker from BestToolbars. net. It is small (only 73KB). Is not advertising supported, nor does it require registration, and no information is collected from or about product... Features: - It is always there as an icon in Internet Explorer - Easy to turn blocking on/off - Kills unwanted pop-ups but allows new window links that you click. ... It also saves your bandwidth with popup filter - it stops a potential ad in it's tracks before it even has time to download.
http://www.besttoolbars.net/stopper/pop_stop_popup_killer_v2_2.exe - 72Kb - Download - Screenshot

!xSpeed
Fantastic tool to speed up windows or speed down windows -256~+256 times, your Games and other Software will give you a new taste of surprise. It is very small and simply to use, Change software speed (such as games or movies) and change your feeling. ... com/e-pointer/ Mini Popup Killer: blocks all unsolicited popup windows from appearing while browsing with Internet Explorer. ... Mini Popup Killer works by integrating directly with Internet Explorer, to stop popups before the windows even become visible.
http://www.qwerks.com/download/5589/!xSpeed-setup.exe - 120b - Download - Screenshot

Popup Killer
Popup Killer is used for stopping all annoying pop-up ads windows when you surf the internet. It also blocks Windows Messenger in Windows XP/2000/NT which interfere with your program running. It is easy-use tool without any configuration. It runs automatically when Windows starts up each time,... Block Messenger popup spams for Windows XP/2000/NT. ... Robust and never make IE crash or frozen. ... Easy to use without need any configuration. ... Compatible with all Windows Internet Explorer. ... Save internet bandwidth Automatically launch when windows starts up.
http://www.008soft.com/products/PopupKiller.exe - 376Kb - Download - Screenshot

AdCleaner
Key Features: 1. Block Floating Ads and new form popups 2. Clean and auto block over 5600 Adwares,Spywares 3. Easy to use, default settings ,hotkeys supported 4. Lovely looks,Skins ,user tips supported 5. Clean all form IE ads including : general popup ads,modelessdialog popup ads,winhelp... The most outstanding feature of AdCleaner is she can clean those annoying floating Ads which fly over your IE client window continuously, and of course clean those pop-up windows,Adware,Spyware at the same time.
http://www.eeriesoft.com/Downloads/setup.exe - 2Mb - Download - Screenshot

PopX
PopX is a popup killer fully integrated with Internet Explorer and provides incomparable user experience. PopX is loaded when an IE starts, and when the IE window is closed, PopX unloads itself automatically. There is no forever-running program sitting in the system tray, monitoring browser... PopX is a powerful popup stopper. ... PopX is a smart popup zapper. ... 0 or above and works under Windows 95/98/NT/Me/2000/XP. ... The pop-up log records url of the pop-up and the web page generating the pop-up.
http://download1.movedigital.com:8...ovedigital/temp/511128/popx15.exe - 1Mb - Download - Screenshot

TaskSwitchXP Pro
TaskSwitchXP is an advanced task management utility that picks up where the standard Windows Alt+Tab switcher leaves off. It provides the same functionality, and adds visual styles to the dialog and also enhances it by displaying thumbnail preview of the application that will be switched to. ... - Designed for Windows XP - Window snapshots as thumbnail previews - Highly configurable: interface schemes, optional font and color settings, appearance effects, hotkeys, exclusions and more - Popup menus and advanced process information - Powerful task and window management capability -...
http://www.ntwind.com/download/TaskSwitchXP_2.0.10.exe - 358Kb - Download - Screenshot

Windows XP Tweaks
Windows XP Tweaks will make Windows XP more responsive and less irritating by performing the following system tweaks: * Loads the kernel (Windows XP system core) into physical memory instead of virtual memory - Note: Physical memory (RAM) is many times faster then virtual memory. ... * Forces Windows XP to use more physical memory * Disables the Indexing service - Improves Windows XP performance * Disables the Messenger service - Removes annoying messenger popup advertisements Windows XP Tweaks performs all the tweaks automatically when you install the program.
http://www.capehostpro.com/downloads/xptweaks.exe - 175Kb - Download - Screenshot