Collins Education - How to Enable Pop Ups

How to Enable Pop Ups

 

Disabling popup-blocker programs.

Popup blocker programs can interfere with opening the free or paid-for download files on www.collinseducation.com.

Most people don't know that they have one or more popup-blockers on their computer, because these programs are often anonymously included with other programs and even Windows updates that they download.

What are Popups?

Unwanted popups are screens that come up when you're surfing the internet. You go to one page, and an ad opens up on another page.  Because they're so common and irritating, popup blockers are popular.

When you click on a link to intentionally open a web page in a new window, you are requesting a wanted popup. You do that when you try to download one of the free resources or the paid-for download files on

www.collinseducation.com. The problem is that most popup-blockers interfere with wanted and unwanted popups. For that reason, they need to be turned off when you want to download a free or bought file.

How do you turn them off?  Find them for the system you’re using and turn them off as follows:

  Click on the Tools button and choose Internet Options (If you have IE6, choose Tools from the menu and then Internet Options). Click on the Privacy tab and un-check the box labelled "Turn on the popup blocker".
  The easiest way is to turn off FireFox's popup blocker completely, but it is configurable and you can allow popups from sites you specify through the Exceptions button. The site you want to allow is http://www.collinseducation.com
  Look for the button labelled Pop-Up Blocker. Click on it to turn it on and off.
 
The McAfee Internet Security Suite has a popup blocker and it's part of "Privacy Services" and needs to be off while you are accessing paid-for downloads.
  The Google Toolbar is an add-on for Internet Explorer. If you have it, click on the Blocking Popups button and it will change to Site Popups Allowed.
  Norton's Internet Security has a popup-blocker and here's how to turn it off.

AOL9 Software includes a popup-blocker. Please see this note on how to turn it off.

Yahoo SearchBar is now included in ShockWave. If you have it as part of Internet Explorer, please see this note.