I hear your sentiments, @ernie1.
Providing the best experience with the product is what we aim for. We understand how important it is to turn off annoying ad banners in QuickBooks Desktop. What we can do is manually click the X button.
Additionally, you can submit product suggestions to our engineers to look into this issue. Your valuable feedback goes to our Product Development team to help improve your experience in QuickBooks Desktop. We want your voice to be heard and put in action. To log a suggestion to our developers, go to the Help menu and select Send Feedback Online.
You also want to make sure that your QuickBooks is updated. If you don't know how, please check this link: Update QuickBooks Desktop to the latest release.
For more tips on using QuickBooks Desktop, go to this page: QBDT Articles.
Don't hesitate to post again here if you have other questions or concerns with QuickBooks tasks and navigations. I'm always around and happy to help. Take care and stay safe!
