I have an Internet Explorer Web Extension that adds a toolbar button.
When the button is pushed it runs a JavaScript file on the user's
computer. This script does a window.open to collect information from
the user and send it to a local small HTTP server.

Before XP SP2 this worked fine. Now I need to make the following
changes in the Internet Options:

- Go to the Advanced tab and under Security, check to "Allow active
content to run from files on My Computer".
- Go to the Privacy tab and uncheck the "Block pop-ups" box.  

I would like for my toolbar button to work without the user having to
make manual changes to the Internet Options. Is there a way to do
that?

Also, I don't really want to totally turn off pop-up blocking. I would
just like to allow pop-ups for the Local Machine zone, but there is no
way to do that in Internet Options. Any ideas on what I could do?

Why not place the html file with the javascript on a web server its
self instead of in a local file.

As for the pop up / box perhaps you don't need that or you could try java.

As for the pop up blocking thing you could look at other programs that
block pop ups then allow internet explorer to access stuff but block
everything else with the third party pop up blocker software.





I have an Internet Explorer Web Extension that adds a toolbar button.
When the button is pushed it runs a JavaScript file on the user's
computer. This script does a window.open to collect information from
the user and send it to a local small HTTP server.




Before XP SP2 this worked fine. Now I need to make the following
changes in the Internet Options:

- Go to the Advanced tab and under Security, check to "Allow active
content to run from files on My Computer".
- Go to the Privacy tab and uncheck the "Block pop-ups" box.  

I would like for my toolbar button to work without the user having to
make manual changes to the Internet Options. Is there a way to do
that?

Also, I don't really want to totally turn off pop-up blocking. I would
just like to allow pop-ups for the Local Machine zone, but there is no
way to do that in Internet Options. Any ideas on what I could do?