popups - I want them back! (WME)

[aggie]

Some people hate them, but others actually use them to make a site functional (rightly or wrongly).

I have lost the ability to open popups in explorer. They work fine in netscape and if I drag and drop a local drive index.html file into internet explorer, they work fine, but not externally accessed ones.

Recently had free version of zonealarm installed and possible this might have something to do with it.

Can anyone help me get my popups back? (please!)
Running winME and ie 5.5 SP2

[TonyKlein]

Hi,

By popups, do you mean windows opened by clicking hyperlinks?

Some popup killers might block those if not properly configured.
I'm not familiar with the latest ZA version. I believe the shareware version does allow you to block certain content.

Why not disable it for a moment, and see whether that's causing it.

If no joy, here's a little list:

To start with, do some cleaning:

Shut down Internet Explorer and Outlook Express.
Go to Control Panel/Internet, and clear your temporary Internet Files.
Now click on Settings/show files, and delete your cookies.
Or, if you're running IE 6.0, click 'delete cookies'.
Also clear your History.
Now go to the Advanced tab, and click Restore Defaults.
And go to the Security tab, and click restore defaults there as well.

Now first set IE5 as your default browser. Go to IE tools/internet options/programs and turn on the check box for IE to check if it is the default browser. Shut down and restart IE. When it asks to be default browser, say yes.

This is absolutely vital if your hyperlinks are to work.

Also have a look at this MS article:

<a target="_blank" href=http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q177054>Internet Shortcuts in Outlook Express Do Not Start Web Browser</a>

It appears to refer to OE, but it's relevant all the same.

And this one:

<a target="_blank" href=http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;NL;q272322>The "Open in a New Window" Command May Not Work</a>

Also do the following:

Go to Start/Run, and type each line separately, followed by clicking OK:

regsvr32 Shdocvw.dll
regsvr32 Oleaut32.dll
regsvr32 Actxprxy.dll
regsvr32 Mshtml.dll
regsvr32 Urlmon.dll

You could also run IE Repair, if you have it available.
It often repairs these file asssociations: Control Panel &gt; Software Add-Remove/MSS Internet Explorer &gt; Remove &gt; Repair IE

Good luck, Tony

[aggie]

"By popups, do you mean windows opened by clicking hyperlinks? "

* Either by clicking hyperlinks or those annoying 'naturally' occurring ones - source code =

function win() {
OpenWindow=window.open("petition.html", "newwin", "height=500,width=530");

or similar.

Should have mentioned - with the hyperlinked ones you can see (and hear) the window trying to open - it briefly flickers into sight and then disappears. With the ad ones you don't see them but you can hear them trying to open. - hope this makes sense.

Have tried everything you suggested, but no joy yet. I'll have a look at the pages you mentioned and see if I can find anything there.

Thanks a lot for your help.

[TonyKlein]

If you're saying "it briefly flickers into sight and then disappears", that almost certainly points to a third party program blocking it, you know.

As for Javascript popups, same thing, really.