I'm visiting my father and fixing the cumulative problems since my last visit.
He's running Windows XP Home SP2 and I installed Internet Explorer 7 last night.
This is ****ed peculiar:

We have two users on this machine; him and me. If I log in, I see the "normal"
IE7 just as it exists on my home machine, which runs XP Pro SP2... I have three
tabs to my home page and all operates as I think it should.

If my father logs in, as you look across from top left to right, you see
"Favorites Center", then "Add To Faqvorites", then "Home". There are no tabs;
there is no way I can see to open a new tab. Now, there is a downward pointing
arrow just to the immediate right of the "home" button. Clicking on it shows
the three selections my father wanted to be tabs for his home page. If you
click on any one of them there is no delay in opening... so it's as if it were
functionally opening a previously loaded tab rather than opening a new window.
Visually, it's as if you opened another window.

We share the same firewall (ZoneAlarm Pro), the same anti-virus (Norton's
Systemworks 2003), the same anti-spy (Windows Defender). For the life of me, I
don't see why it works properly for one user but not another. Ideas?


Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerdatcaroplina.rr.com