I have seen some articles with this happening but have not seen a good fix yet? When I click on a link that opens to a new window IE locks up. The funny thing is that if I quickly right click the toolbar of the ie page and click close, the new window will open. But anyway I've tried reregistering the dlls like suggested and disabling active x scripting and all that. I've even did a refresh reinstall of XP and re ran all the updates and it is still not working! FYI, I also had installed Adaware and spyblaster and spybot. I removed adaware and spyblaster and no change. Someone please lend a hand....