New Window Won't Open in IE

I have IE 6.0.2800.1106 and this problem just started happening. Whenever I click on something that should open a new browser window, the new window opens, but then just seems to freeze up. I never get any content in the newly opened window, it just sits there like it's going to do something but never does. I'm able to end up closing the newly opened window without any problem. I tried a repair of IE but it didn't help. Any ideas?

 

The information on this page provides the fix.

Try the run commands first (regsvr32 Urlmon.dll, et. al), which usually work.

 

Still Having the Trouble

Went to that site and tried EVERYTHING they suggested. I'm still having the problem. I had high hopes too because the problem descriptions they had are exactly the issue I'm having. Sign me confused.

 

Possibly some other ideas
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;281679

 

Found the Problem

Well, after spending almost two straight days, I've isolated the trouble to be caused by a program I had recently installed. Fortunately I had done a Drive Image of my machine about a month back, and had only installed a few programs since that time.

I found the culprit after restoring my C drive multiple times from the image, then playing around installing the programs one by one to find which one "broke the camel's back" so to speak.
It turned out to be caused by a little program called ADMS-1H that I installed so I could program my ham radio using my computer.

Still can't tell just what it installs that hoses up Internet Explorer, but it's that program that causes the trouble for sure. I noticed it installs multiple DLL files, but the names fly by so fast when installing, I've been unable to note the names.

I plan to contact the software manufacturer to see if perhaps it's a know problem that they've got a fix for, but I'm not too optimistic.

Anyway, after all my trials and tribulations this weekend - I just had to share my success in isolating the trouble.

 

You don't mention your OS but I'm guessing 9X/ME.

If you really want to run the HAM app you might want to consider running 2K or XP. They guard against that sort of thing pretty well.

First - they don't allow 3rd party apps to write to Windows at all or any of it's subfolders.

Second, they force apps to put their .dll files in the app's install folder and do some sort of re-direction so the app looks there rather than system32 or wherever it thinks it's dll files are.

 

Thanks for the advice Newt! Yep, you are right. I'm running Win98SE. One of these days I will have to just bite the bullet and upgrade to XP.