I haven't had the time to try to figure it out. As long as IE will open just
once now, I'm happy. I'll play with the rest when time allows. But thank
you for all your help. I did check the Downloaded Program Files as you
suggested - the only thing in there is the java runtime environment and there
are no messages or black icons showing.

"Gistcheckin" wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> Gistcheckin
>
>
> "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