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I had previously posted this in
microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
but no one there had the answer: one person just
suggested items from the basic procedure which I
believe I did follow correctly since it works on XP
and another suggested restoring the original settings
and trying again but that did not work. I believe its
essentially a security issue so I am trying here.

My home page is a local file that I created on my
system. It consists mostly of HTML with a bit
of Javascript although I tried removing the Javascript
and it still seems to have the same problem as
with the Javascript.

On Windows Vista using IE7 if I press ctrl-T for a
new tab I get about:blank rather than the home
page in the new tab even though I set "Open home
page for new tabs instead of a blank page" under

Tools | General | Internet Options | Tabs

If I click on the Home page icon the home page
comes up in a new window. If I create a link in
the Links Toolbar it does the same thing except it
also gives me a message that its placing it in a
new window since it has a different security
level. Note that when I am at my home page the
IE7 bar near the lower right reads:

Computer | Protected Mode Off

whereas when I am on a web page from the net it
reads:

Internet | Protected Mode On

How can I get my home page to appear in a new tab?
I was able to do that under XP using IE7 so I am fairly
confident I understand the basic procedure, at least as
far as it applies to XP. I gather it thinks there is a
security issue and the security system is different on
Vista and XP and somehow different between my home
page and all web pages causing it to try to keep them
separate. How do I circumvent this?

Thanks.
 
Your problem is not security related. Just do the following:
1. Click the Tools icon in the upper right corner in IE
2. Click Internet Options
3. In the Tabs section, click Settings
4. Check the box for "Open home page for new tabs instead of a blank page.
5. Click OK twice

That should solve your issue. If it doesn't, post back.

BTW, the reason your custom home page shows up in the Local Computer Zone is
because it is located on the computer itself. If you put a Mark-of-the-Web
(http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537628.aspx) in it you can make
it show up in the Internet Zone. Put this on a line of its own in the HTML
header:
<!-- saved from url=(0014)about:internet -->

When you next open the page it should show up in the Internet zone.
 
BTW, the reason your custom home page shows up in the Local Computer Zone is
because it is located on the computer itself. If you put a Mark-of-the-Web
(http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537628.aspx) in it you can make
it show up in the Internet Zone. Put this on a line of its own in the HTML
header:
<!-- saved from url=(0014)about:internet -->
Click to expand...

Your suggestion about the header solved it. Now my home shows up in a
separate
tab just like it did on XP. Thanks!
 
Your suggestion about the header solved it. Now my home shows up in a
separate
tab just like it did on XP. Thanks!
Click to expand...

Actually having used it for a while now I do see one difference. The
javascript code in
my home page that writes to the clipboard no longer works. What I can
do is have two
versions of my home page: one with the about:internet comment which
will appear in
its own tab but the javascript won't work and one without the
about:internet comment
for which the javascript will work but it won't appear in its own tab
but instead appears
in a new window.

Since I don't use the javascript functionality often I can live with
that but if there
is some way of getting it to appear in its own tab rather than a new
window and
still have the javascript function then I would be interested in
knowing about it.
 
Actually having used it for a while now I do see one difference. The
javascript code in
my home page that writes to the clipboard no longer works.
Click to expand...

You could enable that, but you really don't want to. If you enable clipboard
access you enable it for every site on the Internet. That's just not safe.
Revisit the functionality instead and see if you can't live without it.
 
You could enable that, but you really don't want to. If you enable clipboard
access you enable it for every site on the Internet. That's just not safe.
Revisit the functionality instead and see if you can't live without it.
Click to expand...

Thanks. I guess its too dangerous to enable, but if I did want to
enable it
how would I do that?

(I am really looking to understand how this whole area works a little
better so
that I don't run into this again in other similar situations.)
 
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