Re: IE won't spawn new windows -- last ditch effort
From: Linda B (LindaB_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/10/05
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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 11:39:03 -0800
Alan --
Do you happen to have patch KB873377 installed? After about a week of
research and experimenting, I finally narrowed my problem down to this patch
-- after uninstalling it, windows will spawn fine in IE. I'm just about to
start a new thread asking why the hell this happens.
Hope this helps.
:) LB
"Alan Silver" wrote:
> Frank,
>
> I jumped in here part-way through as I was going to ask this question.
>
> I have tried everything below and still have the same problem.
>
> I have IE6.0.3790.0 on Windows Server 2003.
>
> See below for comments ...
>
> >Go to Tools | Internet Options | Advanced.
> >Uncheck "Reuse windows for launching shortcuts".
>
> Unchecked
>
> >Also, if you have Yahoo Companion, Google toolbar, MSN toolbar, a firewall,
> >Earthlink (or another pop-up blocker) My IE2 (a shell for IE) etc.
> >Yahoo Companion is a very common cause.
>
> Don't have any of those (or anything similar) installed.
>
> >If you're *sure* that another program isn't causing this, these links may
> >help.
> >http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/IEFAQ.htm Tips #21 & 46
>
> All reregistering went fine, no errors.
>
> >http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=281679
>
> The first bits were repeats of what was in the previous link. I checked
> the registry entries and they were OK.
>
> >http://www.fjsmjs.com/OE/nolinks.htm
>
> This isn't exactly my problem in that links do work, as long as they
> don't have a target set (to open in a different window) or you don't
> Shift-Click or choose Open In New Window from the context menu.
>
> Either way, I couldn't see an entry in the file types for URL:Hypertext
> etc. The nearest I could see was for the file extension URL, and the
> open action had the following entry ...
>
> rundll32.exe shdocvw.dll,OpenURL %l
>
> and DDL was not enabled. This is the same as on a Windows2000 machine I
> have here, so I assume this is right and the link you supplied meant
> something else.
>
> >http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/answers2.htm#hyperlinks
> >http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/answers.htm#new_window
>
> These two either gave the same as previous, or things that weren't
> applicable. I couldn't try the suggestion about Dcomcnfg.exe as it is
> different in Windows 2003 and I couldn't work out how to translate what
> the article said to what I saw on screen. Running Dcomcnfg.exe opens
> Component Services administration in MMC. I couldn't work out where to
> look for the setting described.
>
> So, any more ideas? Thanks.
>
> --
> Alan Silver
> (anything added below this line is nothing to do with me)
>
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