How to customize Pop-up Blocker in Internet Explorer in Windows Vista?

With the help of this tutorial you will be able to allow or prevent Pop-ups from certain websites and set various other Pop-up Blocker settings

Note: Before doing this you need to Enable Pop-up Blocker.

You can accomplish this in the following manner:

1) Open Internet Explorer and click on the Tools menu and select Internet Options



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2) Now click on the Privacy tab and then click the Settings button



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3) The Pop-up Blocker Settings window now opens. Here type the name of the website for which you want to allow Pop-ups and click Add button



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4) You can now see that that the desired website is added to the Allowed sites list

Note: If you want to add more websites then repeat step 3 else proceed.



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5) You can check or uncheck the following options:

a) Play sound when a pop-up is blocked - To toggle pop-up sound

b) Show Information Bar when a pop-up is blocked – To toggle Information Bar

6) You can set the Filter level of the Pop-up Blocker by selecting high, medium or low options from the Filter level dropdown list as shown in Figure 4

7) Click Close button