Hi,
Check...
Display Properties> Appearance> Windows and buttons. If using Windows
Classic, switch to XP Style. Restart. If the tab band appears, you can
probably switch back to Windows Classic.

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

"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?
>
> Mortimer Schnerd, RN
> mschnerdatcaroplina.rr.com