George Z. Bush wrote:

Apparently I lied. He's running Windows XP Pro SP2; not the Home version.


Mort


> 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