Thanks for the info, Jo.

When you started without add-ons, did you re-enable them one by one to
determine the conflicting control?

In addition:
Look in C:\Windows\Downloaded Program Files
Click on View and select Details
Are there any listed as damaged or have a black shield with Yellow
Exclamation Mark in the middle? If so, right click on them and remove them.
Reboot your system.

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"Jo" wrote:

> Thanks for all the responses. The problem did happen in safe mode as well.
> I came up clean after deep scanning for viruses & spy/malware. I took the
> suggestion of starting IE without add-ons first and it worked fine. Seems
> to also have fixed the problem with Adobe Reader that started just before the
> multi window problem - I installed Reader 8 and every time I'd open IE7 Adobe
> would pop up a message that it "could not open the file" before I even tried
> opening anything and when I did try would give me another message and not
> open the file.
>
> Thanks again for the help.
>
> Jo