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Sep 7th, 2005

Re: Internet Explorer multiple windows problem - XP

I too was going crazy and could not figure out what I might have done inadvertantly to cause this. And when you multi-task it drives you even more crazy. As soon as I read about Yahoo tool bar I went directly to the ADD/REMOVE and sure enough it was there. I had just recently upgraded my version of Yahoo and I do not remember allowing toolbar to install. As soon as I did the uninstall my problem was also solved.

Thank you, thank you....

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Found the answer to my woeful problem in another discussion. Hopefully this will help more people, please let me know if it does.

If you're having a problem where you cannot open a new Internet Explorer 6 window in Windows XP Professional without having IE close your first window (but you can open multiple My Computer windows and browse from those without a problem), just remove the Yahoo toolbar from Add/Remove Programs. I tried a million things, re-registering dll's, running sfc /scannow, installing/unistalling XP service pack 2, running Ad-Aware, Spybot, and a bunch of other logical things. The only thing that fixed it (and fixed it immediately, without a reboot), was to uninstall the Yahoo toolbar. I had two Yahoo toolbars and the Yahoo Messenger in Add/Remove Programs - I just uninstalled the two toolbars and my month of single IE window madness was finally over.

Hopefully this helps someone else. What a relief!

- WJB

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Dec 28th, 2005

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Hello everyone

I have been having this problem for the last month and tried everything. I then did a google saerch which led me to this site. I have just uninstalled my yahoo toolbar and all sorted in seconds.

thanks a million

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Jan 7th, 2006

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My IE explorer suddenly stopped creating multiple instances, Thanks to a posting in this group, I was able to fix it.

Indeed, Yahoo Toolbar is the problem. De-Install it. I am very surprised that Yahoo does not list this as a bug.

Took me a while to fix this.. Thanks for your help.

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Feb 3rd, 2006

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I think Adobe Acrobat installs Yahoo tool bar. When you get the prompt to upgrade Acrobat, just see what all it is installing and Yahoo toolbar will be there.

I don't know what is the conection between Yahoo and Adobe

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Feb 7th, 2006

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Thank you so very much. This was driving me nuts and it's such a simple thing to fix!!

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Feb 11th, 2006

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Quote originally posted by murphie15 ...

Fantastic! - I have been having this problem for months - I didn't even know that I had the Yahoo toolbar program installed, until I went to the 'add/remove' window. The toolbar was removed and I can now open as many browser windows as I like withaout any of them closing - thanks a million!

Worked for me also in Windows XP. Many thanks.

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many thanks

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Feb 20th, 2006

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Quote originally posted by wjbarton ...

Found the answer to my woeful problem in another discussion. Hopefully this will help more people, please let me know if it does.

If you're having a problem where you cannot open a new Internet Explorer 6 window in Windows XP Professional without having IE close your first window (but you can open multiple My Computer windows and browse from those without a problem), just remove the Yahoo toolbar from Add/Remove Programs. I tried a million things, re-registering dll's, running sfc /scannow, installing/unistalling XP service pack 2, running Ad-Aware, Spybot, and a bunch of other logical things. The only thing that fixed it (and fixed it immediately, without a reboot), was to uninstall the Yahoo toolbar. I had two Yahoo toolbars and the Yahoo Messenger in Add/Remove Programs - I just uninstalled the two toolbars and my month of single IE window madness was finally over.

Hopefully this helps someone else. What a relief!

- WJB

Thank you very much what a relief yahoo

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Mar 1st, 2006

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Quote originally posted by wjbarton ...

Found the answer to my woeful problem in another discussion. Hopefully this will help more people, please let me know if it does.

If you're having a problem where you cannot open a new Internet Explorer 6 window in Windows XP Professional without having IE close your first window (but you can open multiple My Computer windows and browse from those without a problem), just remove the Yahoo toolbar from Add/Remove Programs. I tried a million things, re-registering dll's, running sfc /scannow, installing/unistalling XP service pack 2, running Ad-Aware, Spybot, and a bunch of other logical things. The only thing that fixed it (and fixed it immediately, without a reboot), was to uninstall the Yahoo toolbar. I had two Yahoo toolbars and the Yahoo Messenger in Add/Remove Programs - I just uninstalled the two toolbars and my month of single IE window madness was finally over.

Hopefully this helps someone else. What a relief!

- WJB

Thank you very much for this post. It saved me hours of troubleshooting!

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Mar 17th, 2006

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Hey all -- I'm no tech person, but found this thread when I had precisely the same problem with IE: Couldn't open multiple windows and, similarly, couldn't keep an originating-window open when clicking and following a link.

I was bummed out when I saw that the unanimous fix was uninstall yahoo toolbar, etc., since I had done so some weeks ago. BUT, here's what I have to add to the mix. If you have uninstalled your yahoo stuff, and the problem persists: go to your Program Files folder(s) and investigate whether you still have some Yahoo files and programs. There was a Yahoo folder sitting in my program files, and when I deleted all of it, the problem went away.

Interesting footnote, when I first tried to delete the Yahoo stuff, I had IE open, and I kept getting an error message saying I had a program open that was "using" the Yahoo .exe file. Eureka! I said. I closed IE, deleted all the Yahoo folders, and voila, the problem is gone.

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