IE 8 refuses to open any hyperlinks from current page?

Draeger · 10 Dec 2009 at 09:37

Hi,

Been putting it off for ages but eventually decided to install IE 8 today as I performed my Windows Updates. All installed as normal.

However, now I find that absolutely no hyperlinks from any pages will open. Either in a popup, new window or new tab. It just sits there and either does nothing or in the case of the new tab, just says "Connecting". Everything was fine in IE 7 before I installed the IE 8 update and links are working as per normal within Opera and Firefox on the same PC.

Googled it and tried a cmd line fix but no joy. Any help and advice appreciated!!.

*EDIT* Running Vista Ultimate x86, forgot to mention!.

Draeger · 10 Dec 2009 at 09:42

Nope, will try that just now, thanks.

Draeger · 10 Dec 2009 at 09:48

Nope, no joy - still the same.

Draeger · 10 Dec 2009 at 10:34

Not putting up with this nonsense!!.

Reverted back to IE 7 and everything is back to working as normal. Curious as to why this problem appeared though, having done lots more Googling it looks like it is quite a widespread issue with no clear cut "fix".

May well try installing it at some point further down the line as a standalone download rather than via Windows update but not anytime soon. I use Opera anyway, but was just curious to give IE 8 a go ( plus Windows update kept nagging me to do so

).