How to Turn Off Pop-Up Blockers on My Computer

When you try to surf the web and are constantly bombarded by pop-up ads it can be extremely annoying. For this reason, most computer users enable a pop-up blocker. Pop-up blockers can make site jumping hassle free. Occasionally, however, we run across websites that offer information that we need as a pop-up in a new window. It is during times like this that we need to know how to disable the pop-up blocker that we have installed. You can disable the pop-up blocker for all websites, or just for specific ones.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Turning Off Pop-ups in Windows

1. Open your Internet browser to any page. For the sake of this example, Internet Explorer is used. The first pop-up blocker to turn off would be the one in Windows.

2. Left click on "Tools" above your Explorer toolbar.

3. Scroll down and click on "Pop-up blocker," then click on "Turn off pop-up blocker."

4. Follow Steps 1 and 2, and if you wish to select specific sites to continue to allow pop-ups, instead of clicking on "Turn off pop-up blocker," click on "Pop-up blocker settings." (You can choose to allow pop-ups only on specific sites, which will leave the ones that annoy you disabled).

5. 
   Screen to enable specific website pop-ups.

   Type in the name of the website you wish to allow pop-ups from. Once you have added the websites you wish to allow, you can go back to tools and proceed to "Turn off pop-up blocker."

Turning Off Pop-ups in Toolbars

6. Disable the pop-up blocker in your toolbar. Even though you may have your pop-ups turned off in Windows, if you have a toolbar installed on your computer it can still block pop-ups. The most frequently installed toolbars are the Yahoo toolbar and Google toolbar.

7. 
   Yahoo logo

   Click on the drop-down menu next to the pop-up blocker button to disable the pop-up blocker in the Yahoo toolbar. Select "Disable pop-up blocker."

8. 
   Google logo

   Click the "Options" button on the Google toolbar. In "Accessories," clear the box next to the pop-up blocker option.

9. See the "Help" section of your program if you have any other pop-up blockers or toolbars installed.

Tips & Warnings

• If you are having a hard time disabling a pop-up blocker in a toolbar, you can uninstall the toolbar in the Start menu>Control panel>Add/Remove programs.
• Keep in mind that by disabling your pop-up blocker you are exposing your computer to greater risk of viruses and spyware.

Resources

• Google toolbar pop-up help
• Yahoo toolbar help
• Configuring and troubleshooting Windows pop-up blocker