IE 7, closing single tabs closes everything 2

[fenix]

Hi all,

I tried to find the answer to this on MS help but
haven't found the answer yet. Maybe someone is familiar
with this.

This is completely intermittent and I can't determine
any pattern of when it happens.

Sometimes when I close a single tab, they all close and I get the "send ms an error message". Sometimes x ing out one tab just closes the tab, but that's about 2 out of 5 times.

I do all the updates and keep spyware cleaned out regularly with adaware, spybot and housecall. (xp pro sp2)

Appreciate any help or links to fix this mildly annoying
problem.

 

[smah]

Using Google Desktop Search?

 

[smah]

Sorry, the more complete question should have been:

Are you using the most recent version of Google Desktop Search and do you have it set to index IE's history files?

 

[fenix]

thx for the reply.

I am not using google desktop, I just open it via quick launch shortcut when I want to find something.

At least I don't think I"m using it. It would appear as a bar with Google written on it near the menu bar amd toolbar area, correct ?

 

[fenix]

Some more info about how it reacts when I click on the X on a single tab.

It immediately says "blank page" on the tab after I click on it and the MS send error message comes up at the same time.

 

[smah]

I don't really know what GDS looks like, I don't use it. This behavior is common with GDS and it relates to IE's history files. Do you have any other utilities that might be interacting with IE's history files - history cleaning programs or anything similar?

Does this problem happen if you run IE in 'no add-ons' mode?

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/07/25/678113.aspx

 

[fenix]

Hi thx for that info. I think we're on to something with managing add ons.

I disabled about 6 items that I didn't think I needed and
when I opened about 5 windows, they all closed one by one like they're supposed to. After the last window was closed and IE wasn't in use, I tried again to verify that it was a fix. Oops, now each shortcut opens its own window instead of tabbing. I'll keep messing with it, and do a one by one
and check each time.

thx
good call

 

[fenix]

update and thanks again to smah

After a reboot, I got my tabs back instead of individual windows opening and closing single tabs worked normally.

I started to add back 6 add-ons that I disabled to determine which one might have caused the problem and it was the first one that I re enabled. I use Netzero dial up for a backup system to my broadband cnx and when I turned the add on back on, the problem came back. In case anyone might encounter this someday, the add-on was:
Popup-Blocker Class/Netzero, Inc./Browser Helper Object/X1IEBHO.dll

 

[smah]

A star for figuring it out & posting the soltution for others. It might be interesting to see if there's a newer version of this add-in that might not have this problem.