Thanks for the update.

Don

"George Z. Bush" <georgezbush@charter.net.nospam> wrote in message
news:ecTcjkBxHHA.4476@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Here's how this one finally played out. I decided, just for G&S, to
create
> a totally new username. What do ya know? The new username showed the
tabs
> just as they should have from the start! Not only that, the old username
> had an issue where it wouldn't apply the same settings to all files no
> matter what I did... including some registry work where I changed a value
to
> a much higher number of pages. But I digress.
>
> Obviously the original username had some issues. All subsequent usernames
> didn't. So I copied, imported, etc. everything I could think of to the
new
> username, I've still got to port over the old message rules but I think
> I've got most of it done now. I'm going to make the old username
invisible
> for now so I can still get to it if I forgot something.
>
> Anyway, that's my story and I'm sticking to it. Thanks for everybody's
> help.
>
> Mortimer Schnerd, RN
> mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com

> PA Bear wrote:
> > [nice catch]
> >
> > Don Varnau wrote:
> >> 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.
> >>

> >> "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