Hi to all.
You people were right. Thank you! It turns out that Check-it 86 is a
pop-up blocker. There is also a separate pop-up blocker on my Tools menu,
but apparently, Check-it 86 overrides that one. I looked under the
program's About tab, and it says it's made by "Smith Micro Soft, Copyright
2002-2003." I suppose this was the pop-up blocker my cousin was referring
to, and I presume this is the one made by Microsoft.
I verified that this one was my problem child by making the Radio-locator
site an exception. I then brought up the program, and guess what! The web
links it pointed to opened up. For those who are interested (and I did
receive an E-mail from a lister who was), Check-it 86 was found under the
programs menu.
Thanks to all of you for you assistance.
Ted Chittenden
>From: Kelly Pierce <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Kelly Pierce <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Opening Websites in a New Window
>Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 20:16:11 -0500
>
>Michael,
>
>I think a pop up blocker is the likely culprit here. Ted, realize that pop
>up blockers can be found in things like the Google or Yahoo toolbars.
>Additionally, Windows XP, service pack 2 has a pop up blocker now as part
>of
>the operating system. to temporarily disable it, hold down the control key
>immediately after selecting a web page.
>
>Kelly
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Michael Barber" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 9:39 AM
>Subject: Re: Opening Websites in a New Window
>
>
> > Some questions: First, are you using a recent version of JAWS? If he
> > has a popup blocker going, have you disabled it? Otherwise, one thing
> > you might try is when you come to one of these links, route JAWS to PC
> > and then press Control plus Slash on the number pad and see if that
> > doesn't work.
> > Michael
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: VICUG-L: Visually Impaired Computer Users' Group List
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ted Chittenden
> > Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 9:22 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Opening Websites in a New Window
> >
> >
> > HI to all.
> >
> > I recently changed from my long-time Dell PC with Windows ME to a used
> > Compaq computer with Windows XP. For the most part, things have worked
> > out well, but I do have a major problem.
> >
> > The problem is: when I go into http://www.radio-locator.com or
> > http://www.npr.org or other sites that launch linked web addresses in a
> > second window, I cannot get the second window to launch. I contacted
> > the computer's previous owner, and he suggested I turn off Norton's
> > Internet Security which I did (along with disabling Norton Antivirus),
> > but it didn't help. I went into the folders menu in the Control panel
> > and turned on and off the "Launch Folders in a Separate Process" to no
> > avail. In the same menu, I turned on and off all three items relating
> > to launching pairs of web pages to no avail. The previous owner had
> > MSN's popup blocker installed. I exempted both websites and turned off
> > the Popup blocker to no avail. I thought there might be something in
> > the Customizable Internet Options Security Setting Customize settings
> > area, but I looked through the list of items to disable and enable and
> > found nothing that sounded like it could do what I wanted it to do. The
> > former owner was very scared of viruses (he was using a DSL cable
> > hookup), and the result is that the system contains several cleaning and
> > antispy programs (including both AdAware and Microsoft's antispy program
> > as well as Spybot). The former owner also has several versions of
> > Firefox installed and Netscape Messenger loaded, bessides the Internet
> > Explorer 6 with Service Pack 2 for Windows XP I am currently using.
> >
> > Any assistance in this matter would be greatly appreciated, as I very
> > much enjoy listening to NPR programming and am a heavy contributor to
> > Radio-locator. If I hear nothing, I may be forced to contact Geeks on
> > Call (and pay a nice premium) to resolve this issue.
> >
> > To all, thank you in advance for assisting me with this problem.
> >
> >
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