Open in New Window broken

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foleymik

Hi,

system: XP SP2 all updates except ie7.
Firefox installed and set as default browser
pop-up blocker off
google toolbar installed but pop-up blocker off.

When I click on a link that opens in a new window or right-click and
select a link to open in a new window, the window may quickly appear
and disappear.

I've tried hunting it down using filemon/regmon/ and new procmon to no
avail. I can see IE check the cache for the page, I can see the pop-up
blocker allow the site and then I see HKCU\Software\Classes\.htm get a
"NAME NOT FOUND" error.

I can send an output of Process Monitor if anyone wants to view it.

I'm stumped. I'm seeing this on two systems.

Thanks for any help,
mike
 
Hi,
This sounds like the work of Ad-aware Pro- Adwatch- the "Block pop-ups"
feature. It sometimes allows a window to open momentarily before closing it.

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]
 
Hi Don,

Thanks for your reply. That wasn't it. I removed Adaware SE and
rebooted and the behaviour is still the same.

Bloody frustrating.

mike
 
A followup to this problem.

I installed all the latest updates that got released this week. The
problem
has gone away. One of the updates was to IE.

VERY strange.

Thanks,
mike
 
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