By Sabine Sharp
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Question: The latest version of XP service pack portends a bar that disallows "Blocked Content" without a second viewer step requiring another button push to view "GOOGLE Ads" on any Site when using IE! What do you know about that?
Answer: XP doesn’t block anything – it’s simply a setting in Internet Explorer:
IN IE go to Tools – Pop-up Blocker and then turn it on or off.
The annoying bleep is for ActiveX controls and other scripts (like .js and so on) – to make it go away:
Go to Tools – Internet Options – Security Tab – select Custom Level
- Disable automatic prompting for ActiveX controls
- Download signed ActiveX controls – Enable
- Download unsigned ActiveX controls – Disable
- Run ActiveX controls and plug-ins – Enable
All other settings are of course up to you – just look through the settings and you will get an idea...
If you have disabled the Pop-up blocker in IE and still cannot see your ads, you probably have Norton Internet Security 2004 or 2005 or later installed.
Open NIS (double-click the icon in the system tray usually works fine)
