I tried doing clicking Restore in the tabs Internet Option screen,
restarting IE7 and setting up the option to open the home
page in a tab all over again but its still giving me the same
behavior.

On Sep 2, 9:03 pm, "Saucy"
<e9fd5gegbvc56y.bjt...@grdhtbis958t8j54j.net> wrote:
> Well, usually when you first use a tab in IE7, the new tab opens with a
> built in page that explains tab browsing with an option to take you to your
> home page and never show that introduction page again [or something like
> that]. I thought if you had turned off scripting or somesuch that might have
> frigged a bit.
>
> Anyway, have you tried the "Restore defaults" button? Then go from there?
>
> Saucy
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> "ggrothendieck" <ggrothendi...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> > I had to turn off UAC temporarily when installing an XP program
> > that was written prior to XP and will not install properly with Vista
> > user accounts but I turned UAC back on after I was finished and
> > other than that have not touched security.
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> > On Sep 2, 8:47 pm, "Saucy"
> > <e9fd5gegbvc56y.bjt...@grdhtbis958t8j54j.net> wrote:
> >> Have you adjusted the security zones at any point?
>
> >> Saucy
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> >> "ggrothendieck" <ggrothendi...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> >> > On Windows Vista using IE7 if I press ctrl-T for a new tab I get
> >> > about:blank rather than
> >> > the home page in the new tab even though I set "Open home page for new
> >> > tabs
> >> > instead of a blank page" under
> >> > Tools | General | Internet Options | Tabs
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> >> > If I click on the Home page icon the home page comes up in a new
> >> > window. If
> >> > I create a link in the Links Toolbar it does the same thing except it
> >> > also gives me
> >> > a message that its placing it in a new window since it has a different
> >> > security level.
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> >> > How can I get my home page to appear in a new tab? I was able to do
> >> > that under XP
> >> > using IE7. I gather it thinks there is a security issue. How do I
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