SP2 issue -- how do you "unblock"

[stephen702]

I was helping a colleague download the sample menu, since he thinks the Milonic menu would be a good addition to his website.

Unfortunately, the downloaded sample menu doesn't display when viewed, and a screen message indicates the reason is that he has installed Microsoft Service Pack 2.

The message says something about "unblocking" the page for viewing on a local hard drive, but it doesn't explain how to do this. We took a look at the security settings for Internet Explorer, but didn't see anything about blocking/unblocking.

Could you point us in the right direction?

Thanks

[perldev]

Click on "Information bar" >> "allow blocked content...", you will see the sample menu.

To disable the bar, you may try this in winnt.sif

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[IEPopupBlocker]
   ShowInformationBar = No

or this from registry:

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;Dont Show The Information Bar Dialog
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\InformationBar]
"FirstTime"=dword:00000000

[kevin3442]

Thanks, perldev, for that nice bit of information. Feel free to answer questions whenever you like and as often as you like; that' what makes a public forum a community. The more the merrier!

Cheers,

Kevin

[kiosk]

Hi!

I purchased 2 licenses for Milonic DHTML Menu - JavaScript Website Navigation System. Version 5.46 .

People that installed service pack 2 can't see the menu at all. That equals in loss of sales for my company. I can't really ask visitors to modify their registry so that they can visit my site..

Is there a patch from MILONIC addressing the issue?

My menu is all over these sites:

http://kiosk.ws/ and http://wwkiosk.com/

Thank you so much, I love the menu!

Regards,
Olivier Bedard
Kiosk.ws Webmaster

[John]

Oliver, I have SP2 running on a number of my systems (and co-workers), and there have been no problems with the menu not showing up. We're running SP2 as it arrived - no changes. This includes systems on campus, and my personal system at home, behind both the SP2 firewall and a router firewall.

I know that doesn't help your problem, but my point is I don't think it's the menu, nor do I think this is something Milonic should 'patch' (personal opinion - I do not work for Milonic).

[kiosk]

Thanks much for the reply John.

I've been given the info that SP2 comes with a popup blocker set to "on" and that is what makes the menu not show. A person needs to turn that option off to see the menu..

I will install SP2 on a computer at the office to test and I'll post my findings here. If anyone wants to cross check with me by testing that popup option on SP2 that would be great. I have seen lots of reports of SP2 doing more bad than good to XP. Good ol' Mr. Gates and familly.. lol

Thanks!

Olivier

[kevin3442]

Hmmmm.... I was given to believe that this would only affect pages loaded locally (e.g., from your hard drive), not those loaded over the web. Not so?

Kevin

[Andy]

Basically, default installs of Service Pack 2 disable JavaScript by default when accessing web pages locally, for example accessing files from c:\ or with the file:// protocol will need to be unblocked.

This does not affect the http protocol so the websites should be fine when running over a web server.

We are working on documentation that will hopefully help describe how to install a web server on your local machine for development purposes.

We hope to get this released soon and as it solves several other issues when developing websites locally.

Cheers
Andy

[Phil]

You do not need to edit the registry to avoid the XP SP2 blocker

A new menu item has been added to the "tools" menu called "Popup blocker.." - use that to disable it, either globally or for certain sites only.

Phil

[John]

I've been given the info that SP2 comes with a popup blocker set to "on" and that is what makes the menu not show.

FWIW, my blocker is on and the menu shows just fine.

Of course, "Uncle Billy" strikes again, and I doubt that will ever change. Don't have any of these kinds of problems on my Mac...