Robert Aldwinckle wrote:
> "George Z. Bush" <georgezbush@charter.net.nospam> wrote in message
> news:uXElofwwHHA.4184@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> 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?
>
>
> Does that user have Enable Tabbed Browsing checked?
> (Options, Advanced tab, Tabbed Browsing section)


Enable Tabbed Browsing IS checked for both users.


> If not, perhaps that is how multiple home pages are handled then?


When I downloaded and installed IE7 last night, I set up my father's screen
before I did my own. His never showed any tabs. Then I logged in under my name
and tabs were created as I would expect them considering my previous experience
with my home machine.


Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com