Maria, are you sure you have the pop up blocker installed on the tool bar? You should see the little 3 window icon on the bar.

You should not be seeing any pop ups at all now unless you have a more serious problem. There is some malware that is going around that several of my friends got on their computers. Tons of pop ups everytime the load a webpage and this same critter also would hijack their browser. They would log onto one of their favorite websites but be hijacked to "party poker" or something like that. If this is what is happening to you, it is very hard to get rid of!

I am very proud of you for mastering the moving of your tool bar, though!

Editing to add: You might want to run these two microsoft progams.

Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool


Then download this one and install it:

Microsoft Windows defender