Hi,
Workaround- Use the down arrow on the Back button to bypass the other pages.
I haven't heard of another solution to this problem.

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

"Paul G" <PaulG@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I'm using IE7 with XP Pro. Lots of horsepower. Plenty of RAM. When I
visit
> a site with a lot of advertising on it -- such as a newspaper -- and click
to
> a second page and then try to click the back button to return to the home
> page, I find myself clicking 3 or 4 or 5 or even more times before I get
back
> to the home page. It APPEARS that it is somehow associated with the ads
that
> have loaded and even the advertising space for those ads that have been
> blocked. (One ad or ad space seems to disappear with every back button
> click). What's up with that? It makes the back button essentially
useless.
> Is there a setting I'm missing that can make that button crisp again? (I
> don't recall having this problem with IE6.)