TECHNICAL REPORT

I solved my pop-up or banner problem the old-fashioned way.  I paid someone to fix it.  More precisely, I used a service I had already paid for.  When I bought my computer at Best Buy, I signed up with the Geek Squad for a service contract.  I called them with my problem, and a very nice geeky guy took control of my computer remotely [a kind of weird experience] and spent half an hour or more rummaging around in it until he found a menu of enablings and disablings.  He disabled the enabled banner option, and that did it.  Then, while he was in my computer, he spent half an hour more deleting about a gig and a half [his term] of unneeded garbage.  My computer now is super fast with no irritating popups or banners.  I must say that for a geezer like me, that was terrific.