Turning off Popup blocker

Hi there:
I was installing McAfee Internet Suite last night, and it said I needed to turn off my popup blocker. I thought I did everything...I disabled it thru the security portion of inetcpl.cpl and I disabled it thru google, but I still had an awful time, getting some of the McAfee to load I held down the control button while starting the program, but that only overrode the problem,it didn't fix it...What have I missed? I talked to the McAfee tech support last night, and they mentioned a conflict with the Norton that I tried (I EMPHASIZE TRIED.) to uninstall. I am running Windows XP home SP2.
My concern is that now I may have problems running the automatic updates.

 

Thanks for your reply...The computer seems fine right now...We won't know if there will be more problems until the automatic updates try and work. So I will take your advice and leave well enough alone, and hope that the problem never comes up again...In the meantime, If I try to do manual updates, I will use the override. Also, Firefox seemed a little more agreeable than IE, so maybe I will try and use that.
As for the McAfee Antivirus, I have tried to get as much of Norton out as I can, so it seems to be working, time will tell. I understand trying to rid the computer of Norton is quite a task, so I don't know exactly how much is left.
I couldn't find how to remove it completely on the Norton site, so if anyone has a link, then I would appreciate them passing it on to me. It's probably Norton Internet Security 2004. It was the trial version that came with the computer from Dell in August.
Again, thank you so much for your advice

 

Had you turned off the default ON pop-up blocker that is now built into Internet Explorer with the introduction of XP SP2? Tools --> Popup Blocker --> Turn off Popup blocker. This may be common knowledge, just thought I'd throw it out there, Thanks!

 

Yes, I did try that too...