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I noticed yesterday that my machine at work (which I recently updated to
SP2) has a built in pop-up blocker in IE.

Is this something that came with SP2?

My machine at home is Win98SE and I use Panicware's pop-up blocker and the
Google toolbar pop-up blocker, but will remove them from my office machine
if the MS pop-up blocker is useful

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Yes, IE6 in Windows XP SP2 contains a in-built Pop-up blocker.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sp2/preinstall.mspx
http://support.microsoft.com/defau [...] -us;843016
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp [...] ocker.mspx

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>I noticed yesterday that my machine at work (which I recently updated to
> SP2) has a built in pop-up blocker in IE.
>
> Is this something that came with SP2?
>
> My machine at home is Win98SE and I use Panicware's pop-up blocker and the
> Google toolbar pop-up blocker, but will remove them from my office machine
> if the MS pop-up blocker is useful
>
>

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If_Its_Junk wrote:
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Yes.

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