Windows version? Is the machine fully patched at Windows Update?

Try re-registering all of the DLLs listed in this KB article...

You Cannot Open New Internet Explorer Window or Nothing Happens After You
Click on a Link
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=281679

Installing the latest Cumulative Patch for IE may solve the problem as a
side-effect. Check in at Windows Update.
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), AH-VSOP

user@domain.invalid wrote:
> Hello. I have IE6 on my machine. I go to the following site.
> http://www.ferguson.com/MaufacturerL...nuflinks.shtml
> It has links to all sorts of manufacturers of contractor suppliers.
>
> If I click on ANY of the links, it opens another window and the IE flag
> in the upper right corner starts waving and waving and waving and never
> ends waving. I have to stop the connect to the new site (get the Action
> Canceled message) and then hit View/Refresh from the menu bar. When I
> refresh, the page for the link displays.
>
> If I go to the ferguson site, click File/New/Window and paste one of the
> links into the new window, it goes to it immediately. It only freezes
> if the clicking on the link opens up a new window.
>
> If the link does not open a new window (like Google), it goes to the new
> link OK since a new window is not being opened.
>
> I have cleared out the temp files/cookies/history.
>
> This does not occur if I use Netscape.
>
> Any ideas?