IE Reuses Open Windows - Need a Setting to Have Clicked Links In Other Programs Open New Windows

• Sunday, March 10, 2013 11:36 PM

   

   
  

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  Seemingly more and more lately I find an open IE window gets reused when I click on a link, e.g., in Outlook or Skype.

  I absolutely never want an open window reused. 

  If an IE window is open, it's because it contains something I want to refer to, or maybe I have Pandora playing, or whatever.

  This window reuse started last year when the "security enhancement" was made that results in all IE rendering windows being 32 bit, regardless of whether one is running a 32 bit system.  Before that, when I would click links new windows would open.  Lately, somehow it seems to be a little worse.

  I prefer to browse with separate windows, so I have turned off tabbed browsing.  I'm not willing to change that choice.  The only setting that seems to apply to this situation appears to be inactive because I have turned off tabbed browsing:

   

  

   

  Do you know of another setting, registry tweak, workaround, etc. that will help ensure each and every link I click on will open a new IE window, rather than reusing the most recently opened window?

  Thanks.

    

  -Noel

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  • Edited by Noel CarboniMicrosoft Community Contributor Sunday, March 10, 2013 11:39 PM clarified subject
  • Edited by Noel CarboniMicrosoft Community Contributor Sunday, March 10, 2013 11:40 PM
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