There is a bug detected in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8, which creates problem to open links in a new tab or a new window. This issue occurs when a user right-clicks a web link/address on a web page, and then click [Open in New Window] or [Open in New Tab]. This bug makes the web page cannot be opened in a new window/tab.
This is caused due to some registry problems occurred, when the program doesn’t get installed properly. To resolve this issue, follow the below steps:
1. Go to Start > Run, type cmd and click ok.
2. In cmd window, type regsvr32 actxprxy.dll and enter it.
3. Now you will receive the following message: DllRegisterServer in actxprxy.dll succeeded. Click Ok
4. Restart your computer.
UPDATE - (New Method)
To resolve this issue, re-register the DLL files that are related to Internet Explorer. To do this, follow these steps:
1. Click Start, and then click Run
2. Type regsvr32 urlmon.dll in the Open box, and then click OK.
3. Click OK when you receive the following message:
- DllRegisterServer in urlmon.dll succeeded
4. Repeat steps 1 through 3 for the rest of the DLL files by replacing the regsvr32 urlmon.dll command in the Open box with the following commands:
- regsvr32 actxprxy.dll
- regsvr32 shdocvw.dll
- regsvr32 mshtml.dll
- regsvr32 browseui.dll
- regsvr32 jscript.dll
- regsvr32 vbscript.dll
- regsvr32 oleaut32.dll
Now your IE8 Open in New Window/Tab feature, should work simply fine.
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Hi. This did not fix my problem.
The problem is just stupid.. 4Example , if i find something in google and then i try to open it in new tab or window, it simply wont open. I mean. It opens new window or tab ,but nothing ever appears. It is not even trying to get data (wireshark).
But if I press ESC to cancell the navigation and then F5, the page will load.
It worked untill yesterday. I remember installing iTunes???? I dont know. It a pity that my restore is only 800MB so I cannot go back.
There must be something in registers or so. Some small stupid thing. God this pisses me off
At last I have discovered where the crime has been committed. This fixes the problem. Its a corrupt user account.
Secondary problem, view your devices in control panel – nothing showing
Recreate a new user, permission level as required and login bingo, not only does the IE8 now open new windows etc but the devices have come back. Think its time to remove the UAC again.
By the way. I am using W7 RC1 with IE8.
I tried to run withou addons.
I tried Unistall feature ( IE8 ) and install again.
i tried to repair ( Tools –> Internet Options –> Advanced –> Reset )
Nothing helped yet.
Are you using AVG antivirus?
Try to disable LinkScanner.
No.
I will wait couple days to fix this. Don’t want to reinstall again.
i am using NOD from ESET. But even if I stop av program, it won’t help.
I installed this W7 RC1 week ago, but IE stopped working just yesterday.
Well I use firefox now
I’m having the same issue. Tried the regsvr32 actxprxy.dll fix and it doesn’t work. However, the fix does work on my wife’s machine! We are both running Win7 RC1. Only difference is, I’m running x64 and she’s running x32. Maybe that’s the difference? truhliq, are you using x64 or x32 Win7?
No, I am using x32bit. Do you have any ide what you installed when it stopped to work? Or it never worked?
T.
I have the same issue, running 7 RC1 x64. It’s really starting to get on my nerves. You can click on a favorite to open in a new tab, it just sits there with the little circle going around, if you click in the window anywhere it makes the ‘don’t touch me’ noise. If you then try opening the same link in another tab, it opens. You can open the same link in a number of tabs and it loads in some and not in others. The regsvr32 fix did not work for me either. I have also disabled all add-ons and third party browser extensions in IE. This problem seems so intermittent, some ppl get it a couple of times in a day and others get it constantly (like me).
Didn’t try it yet, as I don’t like to restart but i’ll do
Awesome, worked for me. Didn’t need to restart the computer or even IE.
great….it has worked for me….thanks buddy..i really appreciate it….:-)
I put all those regsvr32 commands in a BAT file and ran as admin, some were not found and I read the article you pulled thsoe from and that goes way back to IE 6 & 7. But what did work seems to have solved this for me. Was annoying the heck out of me and I though this was a Win7 bug until I installed IE 8 on my Vista laptop. Then I knew this was an IE problem.
I’m on Win7 RC build 7100 64 bit so the .dll’s might be a bit different.
One note: the problem is isolated to the 32 bit IE. The 64 bit one is flawless, can’t wait until flash makes their 64 bit build of flash player. I’ll never go back to 32 bit IE and the mess of the process they run on 64 bit Win7 (or 64 bit Vista for that matter).
BTW! Since Outlook uses IE to render webpages, it would also stall there and even crash Outlook sometimes. Will report back if this solved that issue too ..
Thanks, i had this problem, the third and subsequent tabs just sat there connecting. (Vista ultimate SP1, IE8). What a pile of the proverbial IE8 is, i would switch to FF at once, except my customers all use IE. Now i have to get my sites working in IE8. This is dreadful! we should send Microsoft a bill for all this wasted time, when a bunch of incompetents!
IE8 sucks but i guess it has higher security then our ff..Thanks for the fix!!good indeed
This is how I solved it,,.. I think it is caused by the InPrivate Browsing..
just delete the InPrivate Filtering Data…
-tools
-internet options
-on general tab (Browsing history.. click delete)
-uncheck all first .. . . then check the InPrivate Filtering Data. then .. delete.
THIS WORKED FOR ME!!!!
Worked instantly for me! Thanks!
Had the same problem in IE8.
In my case, it turned out to be the Add-On called ‘Video Download Toolbar Helper’ that was the cause. Disable this in the Tools, Manage Add-Ons menu.
Leave the other related Add-Ons as ‘Enabled’ – ie. ‘Video Download Toolbar’ and ‘Video Download Toolbar IE Browser Helper Object’ to keep the benefits of downloading Youtube and many other streamed videos.
How to Fix ‘Open in New Tab/Window’ problem in IE8
all your fixes do not work
regsvr32 mshtml.dll is not found on my computer,
I guess I will use Google browser, it works. Fire Fox works also
Microsoft you wrote the software how about one day fix it with an automatic update, it is not like I am the only one with this problem……….bing…… hint
I tried this fix and it didn’t work for me. I was able to fix the missing “Open In New Tab” in IE7, then I made the mistake of upgrading to IE8. This is such a useful item for those of us who do a lot of surfing that I just don’t understand why Microsoft doesn’t do something about fixing the problem. If you try search Microsoft.com for the problem you get no useful replies at all. Ah well it’s a good thing I kept Firefox as I’ve never had any issues with it.
If you are having this issue in IE7 or IE8 and have SAP installed, you could try this;
Type the following into a Command Prompt and press Enter.
“C:\Program Files\SAP\SapSetup\setup\sapregsv.exe” mshtml.tlb
Ander
THIS WORKED! Tried every other fix on here – company just installed SAP and I didn’t think of it until i read this
Thank you so much. SAP has been causing a ton of problems lately, I should have known!
I had this problem where ie8 was slow to open and then would not open new tabs or windows from a link. I was using ie8 32bit and tried ie8 64bit this worked perfectly until I installed java 64bit. After installing java the new tab thing started with ie8 64bit aswell. I uninstalled java and ie8 worked again. I have now uninstalled java 32bit and now ie8 32bit works perfectly again. I hope this can be of help for more people.
Tried this on Windows 7 with IE8 but get the following errors:
The module “oleaut32.dll” was loaded but the call to DllRegisterServer failed with error code 0×80070005.
The module “actprxy.dll” was loaded but the call to DllRegisterServer failed with error code 0×80070005.
The module “jscript.dll” was loaded but the call to DllRegisterServer failed with error code 0×80040005.
The module “browserui.dll” was loaded but the entry-point DllRegisterServer was not found.
The module “mshtml.dll” was loaded but the entry-point DllRegisterServer was not found.
The module “shdocvw.dll” was loaded but the entry-point DllRegisterServer was not found.
Switched off Protected Mode in IE8 running W7.
So far, no further problems and moreover a much, much quicker loading of all pages, effectively instantaneous.
What a relief.
Too premature.
It worked just fine for a week, now we’re back to the usual tabs not opening. I wonder what has changed?
My screen driver went funny over the weekend and I rolled back to a system checkpoint – I wonder if that undid anything I did (IE8 still shows that Protected Mode is off though).
I also switched off IPv6 – perhaps that was the culprit after all?
I shall have to investigate further. In the meantime I’m using FF3.5 and that doesn’t have the issue but is noticeably slower than IE8 (when it doesn’t have the tab hanging problem!).
W7 32-bit, IE8 — disabling “Protected Mode” worked AND, as stated above, significantly improved web page loading, both in tabs and in new window. Ralph got it right — no wonder, MS doesn’t want to “fix” a problem with their “Protected Mode” abortion …..
Hello Firefox, goodby troubles — Seems I was wrong, either I get “new window” or “new tab” but not both — unfortunately IE 7 won’t load on W7 — says it’s not supported on W7 …. rats!
I tried everything above and nothing work for me. (Win 7, IE8)
This is what I got from HIHIKEN and it work!!!!
Link “Open in new window” work!
No more Tab saying Connecting!
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Hey Dean.
1) Open Regedit
Goto
2) HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer
3) Right Click on “Internet Explorer”
4) Click on “Delete”
5) Restart Computer.
I am pretty sure this will fix your IE8. Good Luck
HIHIKEN
Guys check out this web site to fix the issue, has worked for many people
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/InternetExplorer/thread/e312e580-1cbc-496b-8c6b-b69b8535a7bb
IE8 problem traced to corrupt user account. It also seems to stop the devices installed graphics being displayed as well.
Create new user account all fixed.