Thanks and good luck.
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"Jo" wrote:

> 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