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October 21, 2006 at 11:01 AM
landman

Wanted Popups being blocked–all blockers turned off/uninstalled —

by landman . Updated 18 years, 9 months ago

DELL XPS, WinXP MCE, SP2, IE6, Norton IS/AV 2006, SpySweeper, Ad-Watch, Ad-AwareSE Pro — Was using IE6 as primary browser with Google Toolbar w/popup blocker active. Also secondarily used Yahoo/AT&T browser with its builtin popup blocker. Decided to install Yahoo Toolbar in IE6 to ease checking of AT&T/Yahoo email accounts. BIG MISTAKE! Yahoo toolbar apparently installed with popup blocker active. Could no longer view wanted popups on trusted sites (such as SpySweeper renewal page) even after turning the blocker(s) off. Went in to verify all blockers turned completely off. Still could not view (popups appear momentarily, but are immediately closed). Uninstalled Yahoo toolbar, no change. Uninstalled Google toolbar, no change. Assume some artifact of Yahoo or other program(s) in registry is culprit. Norton(?)whose control window seems to lock up midway through displaying, but otherwise seems to be functioning normally (and I have never used the Norton popup blocker). Have tried system restore but for reasons unknown I cannot execute a system restore. I have gone back and then come forward progressively, but always get a message from restore that it cannot restore to that point — any point! Related?Any ideas? Help?! Thanks, landman

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