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

There is no current fix for this issue. I had the same problem, I could not
even open links correctly from within webbased email services (Gmail and
Yahoo), it would open 2 windows one blank and one for the link I clicked.
But then would appear to have hung up. I had to kill the tasks.

I uninstalled the last security update of Dec 14th or 15th, and that solves
the issue for now.

I am also running XPSP2PRO and IE6, I copy the other problems you described
as well.

- Ashwin

"Uab" wrote:

> 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
>
>

I have exact same problem on my Windows XP SP2, fully patched.

Has anyone found the solution? Is Microsoft listening?

Ashwin Baliga wrote:
> There is no current fix for this issue. I had the same problem, I could not
> even open links correctly from within webbased email services (Gmail and
> Yahoo), it would open 2 windows one blank and one for the link I clicked.
> But then would appear to have hung up. I had to kill the tasks.
>
> I uninstalled the last security update of Dec 14th or 15th, and that solves
> the issue for now.
>
> I am also running XPSP2PRO and IE6, I copy the other problems you described
> as well.
>
> - Ashwin
>
> "Uab" wrote:
>
> > 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
> >
> >