I'm running IE6 on XP SP2, fully patched. The recent Dec update seems
to have changed the behaviour of IE on one of my machines (though
others are unaffected so maybe the timing was coincidence).

* If I click a link from favorites then IE opens it in a new
window.after a short pause
* If I click a link on the Links bar then IE opens it in a new window
after a short pause
* If I click a link on a web page that is meant to open a new window,
IE opens two new windows, one blank, the second with the target content
in, again after a short pause.
* If I type or select an address from the address bar IE opens it in a
new window.after a short pause


I have googled this for a while, but have found no solution.

Anyone know how to repair this?

regards,

Ian

Some more info. I had the "Reuse windows for launching shortcuts"
option off. When I turn this on, the situation gets worse, in that
instead of opening a new window IE hangs. There is no error message
but the page does not display and IE becomes unresponsive.

Hope someone can help.

Kind regards,

Ian

The patch did the exact same thing to my Internet Explorer. Seems to be a
problem with this patch. I am going to remove it now. Will be back later
with the results. (Oh BTW. I have Google toolbar and MS dev toolbar
installed on my danish XP SP2, full patched machine)

Best regards
Martin


"Uab" <Ian@bbits.co.uk> skrev i en meddelelse
news:1134632226.678335.27380@g44g2000cwa.googlegro ups.com...
> I'm running IE6 on XP SP2, fully patched. The recent Dec update seems
> to have changed the behaviour of IE on one of my machines (though
> others are unaffected so maybe the timing was coincidence).
>
> * If I click a link from favorites then IE opens it in a new
> window.after a short pause
> * If I click a link on the Links bar then IE opens it in a new window
> after a short pause
> * If I click a link on a web page that is meant to open a new window,
> IE opens two new windows, one blank, the second with the target content
> in, again after a short pause.
> * If I type or select an address from the address bar IE opens it in a
> new window.after a short pause
>
>
> I have googled this for a while, but have found no solution.
>
> Anyone know how to repair this?
>
> regards,
>
> Ian
>

Exactly the same on my machine.
It seems that IE always opens a second window once you leave "the domain".
E.g. if you are on

www.company.com

all links like company.com/a.html company.com/b.html etc. work as usual. But
if you manually type in like http://www.google.com IE opens a second (empty
window) and a new window with google.com in it.

I have REMOVED the patches but the behavior did not change. This is an
aboslute shame as IE becomes absolutely useless with this.

Can anyone please resolve this (maybe at Microsoft) and let us know?

Best regards
Ralf


"Martin H. Jensen" wrote:

> The patch did the exact same thing to my Internet Explorer. Seems to be a
> problem with this patch. I am going to remove it now. Will be back later
> with the results. (Oh BTW. I have Google toolbar and MS dev toolbar
> installed on my danish XP SP2, full patched machine)
>
> Best regards
> Martin
>
>
> "Uab" <Ian@bbits.co.uk> skrev i en meddelelse
> news:1134632226.678335.27380@g44g2000cwa.googlegro ups.com...
> > I'm running IE6 on XP SP2, fully patched. The recent Dec update seems
> > to have changed the behaviour of IE on one of my machines (though
> > others are unaffected so maybe the timing was coincidence).
> >
> > * If I click a link from favorites then IE opens it in a new
> > window.after a short pause
> > * If I click a link on the Links bar then IE opens it in a new window
> > after a short pause
> > * If I click a link on a web page that is meant to open a new window,
> > IE opens two new windows, one blank, the second with the target content
> > in, again after a short pause.
> > * If I type or select an address from the address bar IE opens it in a
> > new window.after a short pause
> >
> >
> > I have googled this for a while, but have found no solution.
> >
> > Anyone know how to repair this?
> >
> > regards,
> >
> > Ian
> >
>
>
>

Uninstalling both parts of the patch and restarting the machine made it work
correctly again (didn't work until after a restart). Reinstalling the patch
made the problem reappear. I have now uninstalled the patch and the machine
is working correctly again. Will wait for MS' answer to this one before
trying another reinstall...

Best regards

Martin



"Martin H. Jensen" <heltborg[snabelat]gmail.com> skrev i en meddelelse
news:%23dtnzLVAGHA.2036@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> The patch did the exact same thing to my Internet Explorer. Seems to be a
> problem with this patch. I am going to remove it now. Will be back later
> with the results. (Oh BTW. I have Google toolbar and MS dev toolbar
> installed on my danish XP SP2, full patched machine)
>
> Best regards
> Martin
>
>
> "Uab" <Ian@bbits.co.uk> skrev i en meddelelse
> news:1134632226.678335.27380@g44g2000cwa.googlegro ups.com...
>> I'm running IE6 on XP SP2, fully patched. The recent Dec update seems
>> to have changed the behaviour of IE on one of my machines (though
>> others are unaffected so maybe the timing was coincidence).
>>
>> * If I click a link from favorites then IE opens it in a new
>> window.after a short pause
>> * If I click a link on the Links bar then IE opens it in a new window
>> after a short pause
>> * If I click a link on a web page that is meant to open a new window,
>> IE opens two new windows, one blank, the second with the target content
>> in, again after a short pause.
>> * If I type or select an address from the address bar IE opens it in a
>> new window.after a short pause
>>
>>
>> I have googled this for a while, but have found no solution.
>>
>> Anyone know how to repair this?
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> Ian
>>
>
>

Martin wrote on Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:09:31 +0100:

> Uninstalling both parts of the patch and restarting the machine made it
> work correctly again (didn't work until after a restart). Reinstalling the
> patch made the problem reappear. I have now uninstalled the patch and the
> machine is working correctly again. Will wait for MS' answer to this one
> before trying another reinstall...

Do you have any toolbars or helper objects installed? I don't see this
behaviour with my IE after the patch, also XP SP2 fully patched. However, I
don't run any third party toolbars (eg. Google). It's possible that
something has changed in the handling of add-ins in IE that causes one of
them to start opening new windows.

Dan

Which two patches did you uninstall?

I had the following three installed:

* KB910437
* KB908521
* KB905915

Regards,

Ian

Uab wrote:
> Which two patches did you uninstall?
>
> I had the following three installed:
>
> * KB910437
> * KB908521
> * KB905915
>
> Regards,
>
> Ian

I had to uninstall *all* 3 of these to correct the issue.

>> Which two patches did you uninstall?
>>
>> I had the following three installed:
>>
>> * KB910437
>> * KB908521
>> * KB905915
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Ian
>
> I had to uninstall *all* 3 of these to correct the issue.
>
I uninstalled KB910437 and KB905915. No sign of KB908521 on my system. Oh
and MS Fiddler is installed on my PC as well (+Google Toolbar and MS dev
toolbar)

Best regards

Maritn

Does anybody know how to manually uninstall and reintall hotfixes/updates. I
uninstalled via Add/Remove Programs but Microsoft Update no longer offers the
patches to me...


"Daniel Crichton" wrote:

> Martin wrote on Thu, 15 Dec 2005 12:38:53 +0100:
>
> >
> >>> Which two patches did you uninstall?
> >>>
> >>> I had the following three installed:
> >>>
> >>> * KB910437
> >>> * KB908521
> >>> * KB905915
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>>
> >>> Ian
> >>
> >> I had to uninstall *all* 3 of these to correct the issue.
> >>
> > I uninstalled KB910437 and KB905915. No sign of KB908521 on my system. Oh
> > and MS Fiddler is installed on my PC as well (+Google Toolbar and MS dev
> > toolbar)
>
> I'd suspect one of those then.
>
> Dan
>
>
>