SP2 Popup Blocker trouble

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Guest

Recently installed Windows XP's SP2 update. I manage a small website for a
non-profit, which runs a small script or something. I am able to permanently
set IE's Popup Blocker so that it doesn't restrict popups from my website
when I visit live online. But if I try to open the website from my local
hard drive while editing, the Popup Blocker presents the Information Bar
every time. Major annoyance! Is there a way to stop this, short of
disabling Popup Blocker entirely?
 
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Doug Knox MS-MVP

In Internet Explorer go to Tools, Internet Options, Security. Add the "local" URL to the Trusted Sites Zone. Then highlight the Trusted Sites icon and click Custom Level. Scroll down and turn off the pop-up blocker.
 
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Don Tupling

Roger:

The follwing helped me out when I had a similar problem.


Code-Curious Mom said:
The fact that the issue doesn't occur when the file is located at the ISP
site, sounds like it might be related to 'Local Machine Lockdown' rather
than the popup blocker. I solved a problem with 'Local Machine Lockdown
using the 'Mark of the Web' method which you can find at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/security/productinfo/XPSP2/securebrowsing/lockdown_devimp.aspx

It doesn't specify where in the HTML file it should go, but I had a file
that actually was saved from the web, and there it was located at the top
just before <HTML>. Just be sure there are
no spaces after the
-->
(end of comment mark)
and <HTML>. Not sure why this has to be, but it won't work if there is a
space there. So (in summary):

<!-- saved from url=(0028)http://www.InternetZone.net/ -->

at the top of your home page file immediately before <HTML> might fix it.
You can
change InternetZone.net to a real web address if
desired, it doesn't matter. The 28 is the number of characters in the web
address following, if you change the address, you'll have to modify the
character count too.
(Before I found this method, I had tried renaming the file to *.hta, but
that lets off the menu and toolbar, which I didn't like at all.)


To totally disable this security feature (which I don't recommend--not all
javascript or other active content is safe):
right click IE|Properties|Advanced| scroll down to 'Security', check
'Allow
active content to run in files on my Computer', click 'OK'.

Please let us know if this works.
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