Odd IE irritation

checjb · 3 Mar 2009 at 14:04

Hi all,
I have what started as a minor little irritation in Internet Explorer that is now beginning to grind my gears. Whenever I start an IE session, if I have another IE running somewhere else (as I frequently do at work) then as soon as I press a key then priority of the windows shifts. In other words, if I open IE window B while I have IE window A running, I press a key and find myself typing in Window A not B as desired. This gets really annoying when trying to log in work systems etc.

I'm running IE6 (SP2) on a Windows XP Pro system.

This has been the case ever since I received a new laptop. My old system didn't do this so there must be some setting that is different but IT here are useless and its not even worth asking them. :rolleyes:

Any ideas?

Addicted · 3 Mar 2009 at 16:16

I'd really recommend moving away from IE for obvious reasons now (even covered by the BBC), other than that, cant help sorry.

checjb · 3 Mar 2009 at 16:25

Addicted - Believe me I would but, for some strange reason, the IT group seems to frown on my suggestion of using Firefox. Worse still is that within a year my entire company (a very large international affair) will go over to an entirely MS-based software suite. *shudder*

Addicted · 3 Mar 2009 at 17:09

doh, sorry i cant help you

Tonyator · 3 Mar 2009 at 17:48

Any reason you aren't using IE 7?, might make a differnece

Mattus · 4 Mar 2009 at 00:03

Yeah.. if they won't let you install a better browser, surely they'll at least let you upgrade to IE7. IE6 was released in 2001 and is seriously outdated.

checjb · 4 Mar 2009 at 09:09

We are allowed to update anything on the machine. We regularly get XP auto-updates but they won't update IE itself as it is tied into a huge number of systems/programs that we use and they all have to be validated. It took the company 2 years to update to XP from 2000.