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Configure Pop-Up Blockers

The most current versions of Internet Explorer, Netscape and Firefox contain built in pop-up blockers. You will need to configure your browser to allow pop-ups from blackboard.purdue.edu since many features in Vista use pop-ups. To make sure you have pop-ups allowed for Vista, follow the steps at the bottom of the page to manually check your pop-up settings.

Be aware there are other, pop-up blockers from third party vendors and Internet Service Providers. They are too numerous to document all of them but Vista provides a brief discussion of them.

Internet Explorer

In Internet Explorer when you log into Vista, you may see the Information Bar which is a pale yellow bar just above the web page content and below the toolbars. This bar may warn you that a pop-up has been blocked.

IE Info Bar

Click on this bar and choose Always Allow Pop-ups from This Site to configure IE to allow pop-ups.

IE Allow popus

To check your pop-up settings manually:

  1. Open Internet Explorer and click Tools > Internet Options.
  2. Click the Privacy tab at the top of the window and then the Settings button at the bottom of the Pop-up Blocker section.
  3. Make sure blackboard.purdue.edu is in the allowed sites list. If it is not:
  4. Enter blackboard.purdue.edu in the Address of Web site to allow box.
  5. Click the Add button.
  6. Click Close and then OK to go back to the Internet Explorer main window.