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JTilden - 30 Dec 2006 16:10 GMT

Choosing from favorites causes the program to open two browser windows. The
program also opens two dial-up windows when trying to connect. Pulling data
for double windows over dialup slows the data stream to the point of becoming
unusable.

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Kai Schaetzl - 30 Dec 2006 18:31 GMT

JTilden schrieb am Sat, 30 Dec 2006 08:10:00 -0800:

> Choosing from favorites causes the program to open two browser windows. The
> program also opens two dial-up windows when trying to connect. Pulling data
> for double windows over dialup slows the data stream to the point of becoming
> unusable.

which security programs were running during IE7 installation?

Kai

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JTilden - 30 Dec 2006 22:51 GMT

System was running Norton Antirus 2006

> JTilden schrieb am Sat, 30 Dec 2006 08:10:00 -0800:
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> Kai

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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM - 31 Dec 2006 02:15 GMT

> System was running Norton Antirus 2006
>
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>>
>> which security programs were running during IE7 installation?

1. Control Panel | Add or Remove Programs
Remove Windows Internet Explorer 7.

2. Uninstall Norton.

3. Install IE7.

4. Reinstall Norton, if you really must. Better would be NOD32 or the free
Avast or AVG.

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1bigboomstick - 22 Jan 2007 22:05 GMT

Just wondering if anyone has tried the suggestion regarding NortonSmorton...did it fix the problem?

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Gordon - 22 Jan 2007 22:19 GMT

> Just wondering if anyone has tried the suggestion regarding
> NortonSmorton...did it fix the problem?
>
> EggHeadCafe.com - .NET Developer Portal of Choice
> http://www.eggheadcafe.com

This is NOT a chat room, neither is it a forum run by Egghead. THIS IS A
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IF you ever see this, please adhere to Usenet custom by quoting the post you
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user - 01 Mar 2007 22:42 GMT

i have a clean installation of vista rtm. no security programs installed and i have a similar issue. it's not just from favorites. some hyperlinks produce the same effect of opening 2 windows.

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Gordon - 02 Mar 2007 08:05 GMT

>i have a clean installation of vista rtm. no security programs installed
>and i have a similar issue.

Similar issue as WHAT?

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Poprivet - 02 Mar 2007 21:06 GMT

> i have a clean installation of vista rtm. no security programs
> installed and i have a similar issue. it's not just from favorites.
> some hyperlinks produce the same effect of opening 2 windows.
>
> EggHeadCafe.com - .NET Developer Portal of Choice
> http://www.eggheadcafe.com

Maybe that means something to you, but not to anyone here except the person
you answered, who will never see it because you started a new thread.

Either get a real newsreador, learn how to Reply instead of start a new
thread; it's just a waste of time.

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bouder - 02 May 2007 22:16 GMT

I am having a similar issue but have a further refinement of problem to
report. When I click on the IE7 quicklaunch button or desktop shortcut, I go
straight to my homepage (blank page) with no problem. However, recently,
when I click on any of my favorites, two browsers do indeed open at the same
time. One appears to be IE 6 and does not do anything except show a blank
page. The menus in this IE 6 window are non-functional. The other windowis
the normal IE 7 browser window and is on whatever page my favorite targeted.

This was all working fine a few days ago. The only thing I installed since
the favorites were working fine are the free versions of Grisoft AVG, the
free Grisoft antispyware, and the free Grisoft anti-rootkit. Prior to this,
there was an old Symantec Corporate edition of antivirus (which I uninstalled
before installing AVG). I have also recently installed gVIM 7.0 and cygwin.
You can close the IE 6 browser and proceed normally.

Any ideas?

> > System was running Norton Antirus 2006
> >
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> 4. Reinstall Norton, if you really must. Better would be NOD32 or the free
> Avast or AVG.

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Don Varnau - 03 May 2007 10:19 GMT

Hi,
Try starting IE7 with add-ons disabled.
See: http://www.enhanceie.com/ie/troubleshoot.asp
for troubleshooting information.

You might try this test *very* briefly (no more than 15-20 seconds) because
you'll be running with security programs shutdown...
Startup in Safe Mode with Networking.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=315222 If the problem goes
away, a program that didn't load in Safe Mode is causing it.

Did you use an uninstall program to remove Norton/Symantec, or simply Add or
remove programs?
Symantec Removal: http://basconotw.mvps.org/SymRem.htm

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

> I am having a similar issue but have a further refinement of problem to
> report. When I click on the IE7 quicklaunch button or desktop shortcut, I go
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> > 4. Reinstall Norton, if you really must. Better would be NOD32 or the free
> > Avast or AVG.

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Michael - 03 May 2007 22:05 GMT

FWIW this is mostly a "me too" post. I've had the problem with the
ghost IE6 window since I installed IE7. I've posted questions about
it a couple times here. Everyone was very helpful but I never got the
problem resolved. The IE7 shortcut on my desktop opens IE7 clean
and problem free. Anytime I select a favorite or any link in email,
usenet, or a webpage link I've saved on my desktop, I get the ghost
IE6 blank webpage. Its normally only a nusiance except when I'm
trying to use a website that uses the small calendar or possibly
calculator links that pop open an additional small window. This error
renders these small tools totally useless. I've tried all the advice
for uninstalling, reinstalling, safe mode, no add-ons, turned off
everything in my startup, deleted many potential offenders, all to no
avail. The configuration of this computer practically mirrors that of
my laptop and IE7 works flawlessly on that computer. I've expended
too many hours trying to remedy this.

>Hi,
>Try starting IE7 with add-ons disabled.
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>free
>> > Avast or AVG.

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Mark - 03 Jul 2007 11:00 GMT

I have the same issue and have posted on this forum but no answers yet.
Search on the following string for my posts: IE7 windows launch AND IE6
windows when clicking on url shortcut

Basically, IE7 works 100% until I join my pc to an NT4 domain. Once joined,
any shortcut, even from emails and favourites (including the Microsoft update
shortcut on the start bar) launches an IE6 window (or two). The IE6 window
doesn't even run as iexplore.exe in the task manager, it runs as
explorer.exe. If i log on as a local user, then the issue dissappears. Looks
like some sort of policy issue, but I've stopped my pc from getting policies
and even that doesn't help.

Any other ideas?

> FWIW this is mostly a "me too" post. I've had the problem with the
> ghost IE6 window since I installed IE7. I've posted questions about
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> >free
> >> > Avast or AVG.

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Robert Aldwinckle - 04 May 2007 13:05 GMT

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> Any ideas?

Use ProcMon filtering on iexplore.exe and highlighting references to
shdocvw.dll. You clearly have some registry values pointing incorrectly
there instead of at the new ieframe.dll

E.g. it will be similar to Ramesh's findings:

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general/msg/b10
2eef892110e6a?as_umsgid=e$p2rhoKHHA.1424@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl

However, what doesn't make any sense to me at all is, if you have uninstalled
and reinstalled IE7 more carefully without add-ons (or used RIES),
how can this corruption be happening again? E.g. we know one cause of it
is inappropriate use of IE6 repair procedures after IE7 is installed.
Is your symptom really recurring after completely reinitializing IE and avoiding
*all* add-ons?

If you have otherwise identical systems, one which works and one which doesn't
another potentially useful thing to do would be to compare their registries.
E.g. start off with the shdocvw.dll factor. How many instances of it do you
see in each HKCR in each system versus instances of ieframe.dll (for example)?
FWIW I just counted 35 and it should be noted that I know that I re-registered
shdocvw.dll after installing IE7, so, except for the one instance that Ramesh helped
me repair, who knows how many others remain lurking with unknown consequences?

Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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>I am having a similar issue but have a further refinement of problem to
> report. When I click on the IE7 quicklaunch button or desktop shortcut, I go
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> Any ideas?

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Mike Donovan - 06 Aug 2007 17:55 GMT

Hey Everyone,

I talked to MS Tech Support regarding this issue and they walked me through fixing it on my box. Try this fix. Here's what I did:

1. Go to My Computer > Tools > Folder Options > File Types.

2. Find the entry with an extension of (NONE) and file type 'HyperText Transfer Protocol' and highlight it.

3. Click on the 'Advanced' button.

4. Click on 'open' under 'Actions' and clik 'Edit'.

5. Click in the 'Application used to perform this action' box and hit the 'End' key.

6. Chances are the very last thing that is in the box is ' nohome'. If so delete it. I could be wrong about which box it's in. If so, just find it wherever it is in that window and delete it and its leading space.

7. Click 'OK' twice and try it again.

Hope it works for you... =)

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dstubb - 16 Oct 2007 22:56 GMT

Has Mike D's solution been tried, and has it worked? Can his "not for sure"
items be addressed more completely? Thanks!

> Hey Everyone,
>
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> EggHeadCafe.com - .NET Developer Portal of Choice
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Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM - 17 Oct 2007 14:03 GMT

> Has Mike D's solution been tried, and has it worked? Can his "not for
> sure"
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It should.

From http://www.fjsmjs.com/OE/nolinks.htm

Open Windows Explorer.
Go to Tools | Folder Options | File Types.
Scroll down to URL:HyperText Transfer Protocol (NOT URL:Internet Shortcut)
and select it.
Click Edit or Advanced, depending on your Windows version.
Select 'open'.
Click Edit.

"Application used to perform this action" should read:

"C:\PROGRAM FILES\INTERNET EXPLORER\iexplore.exe" -nohome
(Check the path to iexplore.exe to make sure that is correct and use the
double quotes.)

DDE should be checked and in the boxes below it you should have:

#1:
"%1",,-1,0,,,,
#2
IExplore
#3 (blank)

#4
WWW_OpenURL

URL:HyperText Transfer Protocol with Privacy should be the same.

Sometimes it is necessary to uncheck Use DDE.

If that doesn't fix it, go to Start | Run and type

regsvr32 urlmon.dll

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