Every 30 minutes on my PC I get a Reminder popup with the word "Reminder" and the date and time in the title. Inside the window there is that "page cannot be displayed" notice. It looks as if it would be trying to go to a site. The only way I can close this window is by ctrl+alt+del end process. There are no buttons, can't refresh, and I can't even right click on it or do anything to it via the task bar. I ran Ad-aware 6.0 and McAfee, system comes up clean. Has anyone ever encountered this before? Its a first for me. I would appreciate any comments. I am running Windows XP Home. This started after I got the new service pack 2 from the Microsoft updates. Thanks in advance. -- Stephen

Have you tried uninstalling sp2 and reinstalling it? I am sure you have SP1 also right?

with service pack 2, ms actually took away some ie features for security reasons. if you use ie to browse you'll get a lot of pops and plugins. i should know, it happen to me after installing sp2. do what i do, run adware and spybot. then dl firefox. :)

Solution!, I use to have the same problem, i found out through zone alarm that it was an hp process which was causing it. It was that annoying EASY INTERNET SIGN-UP program that was installed on your computer from factory settings (you know the one that helps you get on the internet if you don't already have an isp?). Just go in your program files and delete the "easy internet sign-up" folder and now no more pop ups with that reminder. btw, I had to delete the folder, since there was no reference to the program in the add/remove programs. But when you look in the folder i stated before, you'll see a file named Hpsdpapp.exe, that's the fella that's making all those pop-ups appear. Guess you could just delete that one file, but you don't really need that whole folder so why not delete the whole thing? If you don't believe me, here's another success story http://forums.techguy.org/archive/index.php/t-164177.html