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by nicholasp

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I have an Internet app, that my users need to run pretty much all day. For some users when they have one IE window open and they click on the IE shortcut a seconf time, it does not open a second instance of IE...

Why??

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by acattr

if you wrote the internet app, then change the html target tag to _blank

Link below provides instructions.
http://tinyurl.com/307v

If you didnt write it, and you cannot change the code, when you hold down shift and click the link, it opens in a new page.

by ashnaidu

Hi

I do not know why, but I can offer you a soloution. Ask your users to use >FILE > New Window to open another instance of IE. Keyboard shortcut = Ctrl+N.

by shmaltz

If an Internet Explorer windwos is already running when you double click on a shortcut it will just use that instance of IE. The reason to this is that it is just a shortcut and the shell is responsible for running it. To work around this you will have to use Scripting, in the scritping language you use create a new instance of IE then load a document and set it to your URL.

by syscokid

Look under Tools, Internet Optins, Advanced, and make sure they don't have "Reuse windows for launching shortcuts" checked.

by nicholasp

tools Internet Options Advanced
Uncheck the option Reuse windows for launching shortcuts

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