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Help!! Popups!!
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2001 10:55 am
by The Wraithlord
Okay, I need a little help here peeps. How the heck do I set IE to NOT allow popups? Can't remember for the life of me.
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2001 12:12 pm
by d_b
tools, internet options, security, custom level and scroll down to active scripting near the bottom. check disable and you are all set.
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2001 12:14 pm
by tunis5000
Does that turn off some other useful features tho?
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2001 12:44 pm
by The Wraithlord
Ahh thanks. Much appreciated.
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2001 1:00 pm
by Zyph
I actually had it turned off in a bug in a version of IE and yes, it turns off the useful stuff too. (I had to re-install IE to re-enable that option.)
Keep the following in mind: Alot of my credit card websites use popups to use as "bill pay" or one even makes you use it to sign in (preventing fraud I guess). Then of course, I go to the occisional contest and it they use a pop-up for important stuff too (like making your entry, etc). I also found alot of online games use a special pop-up to verify the game is installed or other important things, without the pop-up window running the game thought something was wrong. So I just got too frustrated with not being able to do half the stuff I normally do, so I went and re-installed IE. Your best bet might be to run one of those Ad blockers so you can block pop-ups on a whim (and enable pop-ups on important sites.)
Interesting information: I had installed ZoneAlert (I know everyone isn't crazy about this software, but it's an example) and aparrently most of the pop-ups try to connect to your system in order for them to load, because not only have my number of pop-ups dropped (from lets say 8 in a web surfing session instead of 12), but valid pop-ups (for games, credit cards, VALID contests still work fine....go figure. (And you can open ZA and see the attempts they tried to make on your system, but failed.
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2001 10:48 pm
by betenoire
I keep active scripting disabled. No pop-ups.
The sights that I need that use scripts I added to trusted sites list.
Everything works great.
The only down side is every once in a while I'll surf into a site that uses scripts and has something I want to see. I then enable them again...kind of a pain.
I wish some smart guy would figure out how to toggle this function quickly.