>If your friend has installed a program for stopping pop-ups, it may prevent all new windows from being opened, even when a link is clicked. I installed Pop-up Stopper (I think that was the name) and it was necessary to hold down the CTRL key when clicking on a link to open up a new page.

The window is opened as it's being shown in the task bar. But, IE gets locked after.

It's no tool like that. I have verified that.