You may have a horked (dirty; bad; flawed) install of IE7. I suggest that
you..,

1. Uninstall IE7 (which automatically returns you to IE6) per
http://www.ie-vista.com/kbase2.html

2. Uninstall all toolbars and third-party Windows Themes (including Window
Blinds).

3. Reinstall IE7 per http://www.ie-vista.com/known_issues.html#pre-install,
and using http://www.microsoft.com/windows/downloads/default.mspx as the
installation source, not Automatic/Windows Update.

Also see:

IEBlog : IE7 (Un)Installation and Anti-Malware Applications
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/200...lications.aspx

What's New in Internet Explorer 7
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/e...asp?frame=true
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
AumHa VSOP & Admin; DTS-L.org

George Z. Bush wrote:
> 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