Open in new window problem

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Colin Spencer

Suddenly my IE6 SP1 on Windows XP does not open a new window properly. What
happens is that it opens onto the start bar and I have to right click and
select maximize to open the window. I have tried re-installing IE6 but it
has not corrected the problem.

Can anyone help?

TIA

Colin
 
I fixed it.

Here's how

Close the main browser window and all other browser windows than the one you
want to work on.
Right click on the browser window on the start bar and select move
A four headed arrow will appear (in my case at the top left of the desktop)
left click and drag to the centre/uncluttered area of the desktop Nothing
appears to have changed!!
Go back to the start bar right click and select size a 2 headed arrow will
appear in the centre/uncluttered area of the desktop left click and drag
down & right hopefully part of the title bar should now appear
Release the left button and grab hold of the lower right hand corner of the
window and resize to whatever you want.
Now close this window
On restarting a browser window it will open to this size and all 'open in
new window pages' will appear in this size.

I hope that this fixes your problem it did mine.

Colin
 
Colin I hate to tell you this, but I have done
that "fix" a hundred times, it will revert back to the
same behaviour within minutes or sometimes an hour or
so. It's a bug in MSIE and of course they will not
respond to any help for it.

Randy T.
 
Randy said:
Colin I hate to tell you this, but I have done
that "fix" a hundred times, it will revert back to the
same behaviour within minutes or sometimes an hour or
so. It's a bug in MSIE
Click to expand...
....

What you are describing sounds like the effects of malware.
but it could be something as simple as a miscoded script.
E.g. say somebody mixed up the parameters of Move
and Size operations (instead of moving to 1,1 it sized to 1,1
and instead of sizing to 800,600 it moved there). The result
would be a window which was probably off the screen and
so small to be unnoticeable anyway.

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