I asked this question in December and I have read all the help replies and I
still have this same problem. Under tools>pop up blocker> I cannot access
the pop up blocker settings. It is greyed out but "turn on pop up blocker"
is not. When I click on "turn on pop up blocker" nothing happens. Any
ideas or fixes??

Windows Vista Home Premium
IE 7

"mtnmama" <mtnmama@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:036FD8F6-4E26-4FBC-87E5-902606FD087C@microsoft.com...
>I asked this question in December and I have read all the help replies and
>I
> still have this same problem. Under tools>pop up blocker> I cannot
> access
> the pop up blocker settings. It is greyed out but "turn on pop up
> blocker"
> is not. When I click on "turn on pop up blocker" nothing happens. Any
> ideas or fixes??
>
> Windows Vista Home Premium
> IE 7

It might be a security program blocking the Registry change it needs to
make. A few, but not all, of the programs now doing this are:
Ad-aware's Ad-Watch
IBM Access Connections
Kaspersky
McAfee VirusScan and/or Antispyware
Norton AV
Spyware Blaster
Spybot> Tools> IE Tweaks
Spybot- Teatimer
Spysweeper
Spyware Doctor
Windows Defender
Zone Alarm (free) 6.5 Reported to be fixed in later versions.

In the case of Zone Alarm 6.5 or Norton 2007 it actually has to be
uninstalled. Make sure the Windows Firewall is turned on until you
reinstall Zone Alarm.

Boot into Safe Mode with Networking and try the change.

--
Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM
www.fjsmjs.com
Do not reply with email

Thank you for the info. I hope they are trying to fix this problems as I do
have Norton and use Windows Defender.

"Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM" wrote:

> "mtnmama" <mtnmama@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:036FD8F6-4E26-4FBC-87E5-902606FD087C@microsoft.com...
> >I asked this question in December and I have read all the help replies and
> >I
> > still have this same problem. Under tools>pop up blocker> I cannot
> > access
> > the pop up blocker settings. It is greyed out but "turn on pop up
> > blocker"
> > is not. When I click on "turn on pop up blocker" nothing happens. Any
> > ideas or fixes??
> >
> > Windows Vista Home Premium
> > IE 7
>
> It might be a security program blocking the Registry change it needs to
> make. A few, but not all, of the programs now doing this are:
> Ad-aware's Ad-Watch
> IBM Access Connections
> Kaspersky
> McAfee VirusScan and/or Antispyware
> Norton AV
> Spyware Blaster
> Spybot> Tools> IE Tweaks
> Spybot- Teatimer
> Spysweeper
> Spyware Doctor
> Windows Defender
> Zone Alarm (free) 6.5 Reported to be fixed in later versions.
>
> In the case of Zone Alarm 6.5 or Norton 2007 it actually has to be
> uninstalled. Make sure the Windows Firewall is turned on until you
> reinstall Zone Alarm.
>
> Boot into Safe Mode with Networking and try the change.
>
> --
> Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM
> www.fjsmjs.com
> Do not reply with email
>