I posted this earlier, then added stuff as it occurred to me, and then
thoroughly confused myself as well as anyone else that might be reading my
entries. I'm gonna start again and see if I can do a better job of asking
for help.

I use XP Home. My browser (ie6) seems to work perfectly as long as the next
link is brought up on the same instance/window. However, links that bring
up a new window stay open for a second or less -- displaying the header of
the new page -- and then simply disappear. No error message or any other
indication. Just briefly flashed and then gone. If I right-click on the
link and then click on "Open in new window" it opens in a new window
perfectly. Or, if I paste the link into the current instance it will open
perfectly as well. It's just when I left-click on a link that then tries to
open the link in a new window itself.

The Advanced Setting "Reuse windows when launching shortcuts" seems to have
no effect on it -- in fact, I can't see any effect that this setting has on
anything.

Can anyone help with this or at least point me in a direction that might
help me resolve it?

Thanks in advance,

Howard

Hi,
Check the settings of any third-party security, privacy, ad-blocking
programs (or toolbars) that are installed. One of them is probably blocking
the new window.

This sounds, specifically, like the work of Ad-aware Pro/Plus- the "Block
pop-ups" feature (of Ad-watch.) It sometimes allows a window to open
momentarily before closing it.

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

"Linda Woodard" ll_woodard[at]msn.com wrote in message
...
I posted this earlier, then added stuff as it occurred to me, and then
thoroughly confused myself as well as anyone else that might be reading my
entries. I'm gonna start again and see if I can do a better job of asking
for help.

I use XP Home. My browser (ie6) seems to work perfectly as long as the
next
link is brought up on the same instance/window. However, links that bring
up a new window stay open for a second or less -- displaying the header of
the new page -- and then simply disappear. No error message or any other
indication. Just briefly flashed and then gone. If I right-click on the
link and then click on "Open in new window" it opens in a new window
perfectly. Or, if I paste the link into the current instance it will open
perfectly as well. It's just when I left-click on a link that then tries
to
open the link in a new window itself.

The Advanced Setting "Reuse windows when launching shortcuts" seems to
have
no effect on it -- in fact, I can't see any effect that this setting has
on
anything.

Can anyone help with this or at least point me in a direction that might
help me resolve it?

Thanks in advance,

Howard

Yes! I have this "very occasionally" due to my 3rd party popup blocker and
anti spyware programs.

--
Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"Don Varnau" don_04[at]varnau[dot]org wrote in message
...
Hi,
Check the settings of any third-party security, privacy, ad-blocking
programs (or toolbars) that are installed. One of them is probably
blocking
the new window.

This sounds, specifically, like the work of Ad-aware Pro/Plus- the "Block
pop-ups" feature (of Ad-watch.) It sometimes allows a window to open
momentarily before closing it.

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

"Linda Woodard" ll_woodard[at]msn.com wrote in message
...
I posted this earlier, then added stuff as it occurred to me, and then
thoroughly confused myself as well as anyone else that might be reading
my
entries. I'm gonna start again and see if I can do a better job of
asking
for help.

I use XP Home. My browser (ie6) seems to work perfectly as long as the
next
link is brought up on the same instance/window. However, links that
bring
up a new window stay open for a second or less -- displaying the header
of
the new page -- and then simply disappear. No error message or any other
indication. Just briefly flashed and then gone. If I right-click on the
link and then click on "Open in new window" it opens in a new window
perfectly. Or, if I paste the link into the current instance it will
open
perfectly as well. It's just when I left-click on a link that then tries
to
open the link in a new window itself.

The Advanced Setting "Reuse windows when launching shortcuts" seems to
have
no effect on it -- in fact, I can't see any effect that this setting has
on
anything.

Can anyone help with this or at least point me in a direction that might
help me resolve it?

Thanks in advance,

Howard

I had this problem and uninstalling the yahoo toolbar allowed it to work
again. Previously it worked with the yahoo toolbar installed, so not sure
what changed that created the problem. I do not use the yahoo toolbar so not
a problem, just a perplexing issue.

"Richard Urban MVP" wrote:

Yes! I have this "very occasionally" due to my 3rd party popup blocker and
anti spyware programs.

--
Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"Don Varnau" don_04[at]varnau[dot]org wrote in message
...
Hi,
Check the settings of any third-party security, privacy, ad-blocking
programs (or toolbars) that are installed. One of them is probably
blocking
the new window.

This sounds, specifically, like the work of Ad-aware Pro/Plus- the "Block
pop-ups" feature (of Ad-watch.) It sometimes allows a window to open
momentarily before closing it.

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

"Linda Woodard" ll_woodard[at]msn.com wrote in message
...
I posted this earlier, then added stuff as it occurred to me, and then
thoroughly confused myself as well as anyone else that might be reading
my
entries. I'm gonna start again and see if I can do a better job of
asking
for help.

I use XP Home. My browser (ie6) seems to work perfectly as long as the
next
link is brought up on the same instance/window. However, links that
bring
up a new window stay open for a second or less -- displaying the header
of
the new page -- and then simply disappear. No error message or any other
indication. Just briefly flashed and then gone. If I right-click on the
link and then click on "Open in new window" it opens in a new window
perfectly. Or, if I paste the link into the current instance it will
open
perfectly as well. It's just when I left-click on a link that then tries
to
open the link in a new window itself.

The Advanced Setting "Reuse windows when launching shortcuts" seems to
have
no effect on it -- in fact, I can't see any effect that this setting has
on
anything.

Can anyone help with this or at least point me in a direction that might
help me resolve it?

Thanks in advance,

Howard

"Linda Woodard" wrote:

I posted this earlier, then added stuff as it occurred to me, and then
thoroughly confused myself as well as anyone else that might be reading my
entries. I'm gonna start again and see if I can do a better job of asking
for help.

I use XP Home. My browser (ie6) seems to work perfectly as long as the next
link is brought up on the same instance/window. However, links that bring
up a new window stay open for a second or less -- displaying the header of
the new page -- and then simply disappear. No error message or any other
indication. Just briefly flashed and then gone. If I right-click on the
link and then click on "Open in new window" it opens in a new window
perfectly. Or, if I paste the link into the current instance it will open
perfectly as well. It's just when I left-click on a link that then tries to
open the link in a new window itself.

The Advanced Setting "Reuse windows when launching shortcuts" seems to have
no effect on it -- in fact, I can't see any effect that this setting has on
anything.

Can anyone help with this or at least point me in a direction that might
help me resolve it?

Thanks in advance,

Howard