Re: Access is denied with window.open

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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:31:06 -0800

I don't know if you resolved your problem, but I experienced a similar
situation and finally found a resolution.

My Windows Professional XP workstation stopped allowing window.open to
create a new window. The first time it happened, I got tired of searching
for a solution and rebuilt the workstation. A coupld of weeks later it
happened again and I knew I had to find a solution since it recurred.

I found this KB article:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;281679

My problem was resolved by reregistering various DLLs and it included
additional information that fortunately I did not need to use.

"Thomas" wrote:

> Erik, Have you received an answer to the mystery?
>
> I have two development workstations with IE 6.0 sp1 that stopped allowing
> pop-ups to be opened (window.open/showModalDialog) in an ASP.NET application.
>
> The O/S on both are Windows 2000 Server. I have been searching the Internet
> for the past 3 days and have found many others that encountered a similar
> problem. But I have not found anyone that has posted a solution.
>
> In one workstation, nothing was changed but suddenly IE won't open pop-ups.
> In the other machine, .Net Framework 1.1 sp1 was installed (successfully)
> but IE will not open pop-ups.
>
> Our web application starts up as a pop-up for authentication.
>
> We went to a website with pop-up advertising and noticed a jscript error
> "Access Denied". This is my only clue.
>
> There are no pop-up blockers installed on both machines.
> We ran spyware tools on both machines and nothing came up.
> We ran an intensive virus scan and nothing can up.
> We've validated the local machine's registry and tried to re-register some
> DLLs (e.g. urlmon.dll) but it did not fix the problem.
> We've tried to re-install IE 6.0 then sp1 on top but it did not fix the
> problem.
> We've tried to uninstall the framework and re-install it afterwards but that
> also did not fix the problem.
>
> Anyone at Microsoft tuning in? I've searched the kb's and came up with
> nothing. The application does not use frames or iframes. This problem is
> specific to IE on the workstation (i.e. client browser). If a machine with
> no problems with pop-ups call the workstation's (with pop-up problems) web
> server the application starts as expected.
>
> Any advice/solution would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thank you!
>
>
> "Erik Read" wrote:
>
> > Yes, the client is Windows 2003, yes the browser is IE6, and yes we turned
> > off Enhanced security.
> > We also reloaded the MS Scripting Engine (5.6) for 2003 and that didn't help.
> >
> > We did a system restore and that solved the problem (kudos to the SysAdmin
> > for maintaining backups) but we are still curious as to what happened in the
> > first place.
> >
> >
> >
> > "Dave Anderson" wrote:
> >
> > > Erik Read wrote:
> > > > I am having an issue on 1 Windows 2003 server with any page that uses
> > > > window.open.
> > >
> > > [Description of "Access Denied" error with window.open call]
> > >
> > > Are you saying the client machine is Windows Server 2003 and the browser is
> > > IE 6? If so, have you turned off the IE Enhanced Security Configuration?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Dave Anderson
> > >
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> > >
> > >
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