Re: prevent users from disabling pop-up blocker

From: Doug Knox MS-MVP (dknox_at_mvps.org)
Date: 07/09/05 

Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 23:26:10 -0400

Use the popup allow list setting, just below Turn off pop-up management. Enter one, and only one bogus URL. No other site will ever be allowed to generate a pop-up, according to the information. 

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"Robert" <Robert@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:55DAFA6C-7F57-4F76-B293-24BBD650464F@microsoft.com...
> Is there a way to prevent users from disabling the pop-up blocker via GPOs? 
> Enabling the turn off pop-up management setting will disable the pop-up 
> blocker and prevent users from turning it on but disabling the setting does 
> not prevent users from turning it off. 
>

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