I installed XP SP3 and liked it, until I realized that it took away my ability to open new tabs when viewing webpages. Also, there seems to be no way to access my history of viewed webpages. How do i get these two things to appear again?

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Have you checked the settings are correct in Tools>Options>General>Browsing History>Settings and Tools>Options>General>Tabs>Settings? Perhaps the installation of SP3 changed them ??

On Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 8:43 pm, Thom wrote:
>I installed XP SP3 and liked it, until I realized that it took away my ability to
>open new tabs when viewing webpages. Also, there seems to be no way to access my
>history of viewed webpages. How do i get these two things to appear again?

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(a newbie) A later post (http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/1210361146) makes reference to IE7 versus IE6....perhaps SP3 switched you back to IE6, and you would just need to upgrade again to IE7? Just an idea. I am looking into SP3 since my first try at it was not succesful.


On Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 9:04 pm, Malcolm Fowler wrote:
>Have you checked the settings are correct in Tools>Options>General>Browsing History>Settings
>and Tools>Options>General>Tabs>Settings? Perhaps the installation of SP3 changed
>them ??
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Better if you reply to Thom's thread directly otherwise he will not be notified of your reply to him....

On Saturday, May 10, 2008 at 7:49 am, Rich wrote:
>(a newbie)
>A later post (http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/1210361146) makes reference
>to IE7 versus IE6....perhaps SP3 switched you back to IE6, and you would just need
>to upgrade again to IE7?
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>Just an idea. I am looking into SP3 since my first try at it was not succesful.
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SP3 does not cause IE to revert to version 6.

I think the reference you have seen is a recommendation to revert to 6 before SP3 and then reinstall 7 after SP3 so that you have the future option to uninstall 7 - all a bit convoluted!

On Saturday, May 10, 2008 at 7:49 am, Rich wrote:
>(a newbie)
>A later post (http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/1210361146) makes reference
>to IE7 versus IE6....perhaps SP3 switched you back to IE6, and you would just need
>to upgrade again to IE7?
>
>Just an idea. I am looking into SP3 since my first try at it was not succesful.
>
>
>

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No. I am still using IE7 with SP3.

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Thanks, Malcolm. I'll check that out.

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Update. I uninstalled SP3 and reinstalled it. The history and tabbed browsing are back. Weird, isn't it?

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