IE opens a new window when it shouldn't

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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
 
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
 
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 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...
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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 said:
Which two patches did you uninstall?

I had the following three installed:

* KB910437
* KB908521
* KB905915

Regards,

Ian
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I had to uninstall *all* 3 of these to correct the issue.
 
I had to uninstall *all* 3 of these to correct the issue.
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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
 
Martin wrote on Thu, 15 Dec 2005 12:38:53 +0100:
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)
Click to expand...

I'd suspect one of those then.

Dan
 
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...
 
Uninstall only KB905915, go in Windows folder, in $NtUninstallKB905915$,
spuninst, and uninstall with spuninst.exe
 
Well, I removed KB910437 and KB905915 (I didn't have KB908521),
rebooted and all is fine.

I did have one other sympton not mentioned, the smaller/2nd window that
IE would open, well I got (max count) 72 of these in about 2 seconds,
which really had me thinking virus/malware!
 
I have the same problem and posted a question about this above. It
seems that when you have Firefox as a default browser, you type in a
link in IE and it opens in Firefox.

Now, interesting thing is that at work I have Win XP Pro (patch applied
and no problems) and at home I have Win XP Home Edition (problem exists
there).

I will definitely try what you are suggesting.

Thanks.
 
It appears to be due to a bug in 905915 affecting some but certainly not all
users.

Please post to and monitor this newsgroup for further developments:

microsoft.public.windowsupdate
 
I have spent (wasted) many happy hours on this update. Same problem as
others. Fully updated XP SP2 and IE. Load KB905915 and IE crashes/hangs as
soon as I click on a Link. It also opens new windows. Have uninstalled
update and can get back to normal. I thought it might be MS Antispyware, but
managed to rule that out (I think). Reading the posts I am suspecting with
Google Toolbar but have not yet uninstalled and tested - it just takes so
long these days to remove and restart. Just cancelled the update for now.
There really is a problem here that needs understanding and fixing.
 
Martin

THANK YOU. Completely forgot I had tried out (and stopped using as
Favorites/Links did not work) IE7 Beta in "unsupported" mode. Removed the
key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{c90250f3-4d7d-4991-9b69-a5c5bc1c2ae6} and it
worked fine. Thank goodness that there are people out there to help. Cheers

Andrew
 
Andrew said:
Martin

THANK YOU. Completely forgot I had tried out (and stopped using as
Favorites/Links did not work) IE7 Beta in "unsupported" mode. Removed the
key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{c90250f3-4d7d-4991-9b69-a5c5bc1c2ae6} and it
worked fine. Thank goodness that there are people out there to help. Cheers

Andrew
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Just wanted to thank everyone for their work on this. I had the same
problem. Had IE7 installed, but removed it also as it crashed often.
Then i had no problems with IE6 until recently. I had Google bar and
Dev bar installed, removed those and it didn't help. I removed the
registery key listed above and it seems to be working fine now. So
thank you very much.
 
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