popups not working correctly in IE7

Sleepgone,

Thank you for your question. In order to get satisfied answer of this problem on popups in IE7, I will move your thread to Internet Explorer Web Development forum and hope that community can help you a lot.

BrunoYu-MSFT at 2007-10-3 >

Same problem here as well. Most annoying!

salmo2004 at 2007-10-3 >

I too am struggling with this problem. But it only happens on my profile. When logged in to the same machine on my wife's profile I have no problems.

I'm running Vista Ultimate x64.

Billy18527 at 2007-10-3 >

It is a browser problem, not HTML or Javascript problems with the pages.

It affects every window regardless of the web site. It is also affecting every time I "Open In New Tab" a link. What I get is a white screen and the icon will show as busy. Then if I go to the address bar, put the cursor there, and hit enter... the page displays fine. Also the search feature on the top right is not working. When I put text in there and hit the button to search, nothing happens. Also I am no longer able to rightclick in the toolbar area to customize my toolbar area buttons.

It only affects my windows profile. My wife logs in to the same machine and it works fine under her account. This makes me think it is a personal setting. I did have the "Developer Tool Bar" installed but it was there for a while before this problem started. I tried uninstalling it but that didnt' fix anything.

Found someone else who had a similar problem in antoher post and he removed Office 2003 OneNote and the problem went away for him. I run office 2007 professional but also had Visio 2003 installed. The problem started happening around when I got the Office 2003 and Visio 2003 SP3 update a week ago. (Thanks Microsoft for the Perforamnce and Reliability program. Although this problem doesn't show there it helps me remember what I installled and when.)

I actually did a system restore to before some Office 2003 SP3 updates I received. Also I installed some sourcegear vault software during that time. The problem went away but now every time an IE window opens I get a little flash from the little dialog that shows something is being installed.

Perhaps it is an Office 2003 SP3 conflict for Vista machines?

Still trying to get to the bottom of it but I hope some of this helps others so we can find something in common across the board to identify the cause. My IE problems are fixed except for that strange dialog that flashes showing something is installing. I'm not too comfortable with that either but at least the browser works now.

Billy Boebel

Billy18527 at 2007-10-3 >