Cannot turn off pop up blocker

[Eddie B]

I recently reformatted my hard drive and since then I cannot turn off the pop up filter. But, my real problem is it also blocks access to links on e-mails and my address list. I need to press Ctrl to allow access to the e-mail links etc..  E-mail files and folders are not blocked. Links on a web site are not blocked only on e-mails. Could this be a Outlook Express problem? I am using IE 8 and XP  O. S.    Eddie B

[truenorth]

Eddie B, Welcome to the CH forums. Try this kate1968: At the top of your screen at the right you will see 'tools' with small arrow pointing down. Click on 'tools', and when the drop down menu appears, click on 'pop up blocker', and select 'turn off pop up blocker'.
Posted 6 month ago (courtesy of "ASK") or this
http://www.education.purdue.edu/edit/webstuff/popup_blocker/welcome.htm
 or failing either this: http://www.google.ca/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=how+to+turn+off+pop+up+blocker&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&channel=suggest
truenorth

[Eddie B]

Thanks truenorth, when I click on the turn off pop up's it reads pop up turned off. However, nothing changes. I still get pop up blocks on accessing  e-mail links.

[truenorth]

What is the program you are using as the pop up blocker? truenorth

[Allan]

IE's popup blocker has nothing to do with Outlook Express

[truenorth]

Here is a link pertaining to that  in Outlook Express. Hopefully it can help you.
http://forums.techguy.org/web-email/278797-cant-open-links-outlook-express.html
truenorth

[Fed]

Here's the so called fix from the link truenorth put up.

Installing "service pack 2" has altered some of your email security settings.

Do This:
Open Outlook Express 6.0.
Click Tools, Options, Security tab.
Uncheck:
"Do not allow attachments to be saved or opened that could potentially be a virus".
Uncheck:
"Block images and other external content in HTML email"
Click Apply
Click OK.

Now the interesting thing is that both the mentioned check boxes are ticked in my Outllook Express yet I can still click on links within emails which will open my browser and go to the site.
Even more interesting, the OP in the truenorth link said it fixed their problem.
I'm using OE & Firefox.

[Eddie B]

I tried the recomendation open Outlook Epress and click on the security tab. Then uncheck the " Do not allow attachments to be saved or opened.............. " and  "Block images and other external content in HTML email"  apply & OK.    Unfortunately it did not solve my problem.   

[Fed]

You should check to see if IE is the default browser.
IE>Tools>Internet Options>Programs.

[Eddie B]

 Thanks, I appreciate your comments FED moderator.   I checked and I E is my default browser.

[truenorth]

Was there any particular event that you can associate with the onset of this problem? There may be a way to overcome this problem if it is associated with IE 8 and the associated version of outlook express. That is to install an older version of IE such as version 7. Here is a site for doing that http://www.oldversion.com/ . You could try that and see it's effect on the problem. You could then update that version back to IE 8 and see if it changes anything. Seems to me to be an arcane way to solve the problem. However given all you have tried unsuccessfully maybe arcane is in order. truenorth

[Eddie B]

EUREKA!!!    I don't know what the problem was but I found the cure. I reset IE configuration settings. In I E
 I went into Internet Options, clicked the Advanced tab and then clicked Reset. In the I E default settings dialog box I clicked reset. I restarted Internet Explorer and that did the trick. I do not have to hold down the Ctrl key any longer to access a link and the links come up twice as fast now. I would like to thank all you nice folks out there for your suggestions I learned a lot from you. Thanks  Eddie B.

[truenorth]

Way to go--well done,truenorth