• Welcome to Tux Reports: Where Penguins Fly. We hope you find the topics varied, interesting, and worthy of your time. Please become a member and join in the discussions.

Click on shortcut => Two instance of IE8?

B

Bob Altman

Flightless Bird
Hi all,

When I double-click a shortcut whose target is a URL then I get two IE8
windows. One window is blank. The other window displays the target of the
URL.

This behavior doesn't happen if I type a URL into the Start->Run dialog. In
that case, I get one IE8 window as expected. Also, this behavior only
affects the non-privileged domain user that I normally log in as. If I log
in as an admin then shortcuts behave as expected.

I've reinstalled IE8, but that made no difference. Anyone have any clue
what may be going on?

TIA - Bob
 
B

Bob Altman

Flightless Bird
I guess I should add that this is on Windows XP SP3

Bob

"Bob Altman" <rda@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
news:eftg6nl5KHA.5808@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Hi all,
>
> When I double-click a shortcut whose target is a URL then I get two IE8
> windows. One window is blank. The other window displays the target of
> the URL.
>
> This behavior doesn't happen if I type a URL into the Start->Run dialog.
> In that case, I get one IE8 window as expected. Also, this behavior only
> affects the non-privileged domain user that I normally log in as. If I
> log in as an admin then shortcuts behave as expected.
>
> I've reinstalled IE8, but that made no difference. Anyone have any clue
> what may be going on?
>
> TIA - Bob
>
 
D

Don Varnau

Flightless Bird
Hi,
See if a browser add-on is causing this behavior.
For troubleshooting information see:
IEBlog Troubleshooting and Internet Explorer’s (No Add-ons) Mode:
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/07/25/678113.aspx
-
Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]


"Bob Altman" <rda@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
news:u5kuyEm5KHA.5016@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> I guess I should add that this is on Windows XP SP3
>
> Bob



> "Bob Altman" <rda@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
> news:eftg6nl5KHA.5808@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> > Hi all,
> >
> > When I double-click a shortcut whose target is a URL then I get two IE8
> > windows. One window is blank. The other window displays the target of
> > the URL.
> >
> > This behavior doesn't happen if I type a URL into the Start->Run dialog.
> > In that case, I get one IE8 window as expected. Also, this behavior

only
> > affects the non-privileged domain user that I normally log in as. If I
> > log in as an admin then shortcuts behave as expected.
> >
> > I've reinstalled IE8, but that made no difference. Anyone have any clue
> > what may be going on?
> >
> > TIA - Bob
 
R

Robert Aldwinckle

Flightless Bird
"Bob Altman" <rda@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
news:eftg6nl5KHA.5808@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Hi all,
>
> When I double-click a shortcut whose target is a URL then I get two IE8
> windows. One window is blank. The other window displays the target of
> the URL.
>
> This behavior doesn't happen if I type a URL into the Start->Run dialog.
> In that case, I get one IE8 window as expected. Also, this behavior only
> affects the non-privileged domain user that I normally log in as. If I
> log in as an admin then shortcuts behave as expected.
>
> I've reinstalled IE8, but that made no difference.


> Anyone have any clue what may be going on?
>
> TIA - Bob



Try to work it out? E.g. in a cmd window enter:

assoc .url
and
ftype InternetExplorer
(assuming that that is what the first command shows would be appropriate.
If not, something would be already broken. And if the open action shows
that some third-party product e.g. another browser is involved, that would
be broken too IMO or at least a good clue that your problem symptom was most
likely not caused by IE by itself.)

Then, you could try simulating that "open action" in a Run... dialog.
E.g. copy and paste whatever you see after the InternetShortcut= prefix
and then replace the %l with the full path and filename of the thing you
would be clicking on. Notice that there are no quotes around the parameter
in the template so you shouldn't try to add any either. Then you could try
executing your simulation, e.g. press Enter. What happens?

BTW doing that should show that ieframe.dll is involved with the URL open
action and there is a repair procedure available which involves it:

regsvr32.exe /n /i ieframe.dll

However, I'm not certain if just that would be enough to regenerate the
correct open action. We could check on that by running ProcMon when that
command is executed. If it was not enough you could get more of the same
here:

http://iefaq.info/index.php?action=artikel&cat=42&id=133&artlang=en


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
---
 
Top