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AKICOLJ
Another computer question. Bear with me, pretty please?
A couple of months ago, Microsoft sent me an XP upgrade. It went smoothly, as usual, but it changed something that seems to cause my computer to cough and sputter and if it gets too involved, freeze up altogether and require rebooting. That something is a feature I use regularly, esp. when reading LJ, and that is the option to "open in new tab" on IE. I am accustomed to opening in a new tab (as opposed to opening a new window) any individual LJ entry that I think I might want to reply to as I'm going through a page of entries, then go back and reply to them all at once at the end of my reading session. I often just open a blank page that way, too.
Except that when I open a blank page using "open in new tab" now, it's not blank. It's full of little boxes that tell me, these are the pages you've most recently visited, do you want to go to one of them, and apparently, the process of collecting this information is causing my computer to choke, because if I open just one, it stops everything (and I mean everything -- I can't even toggle to other open programs) for about thirty seconds until it's finished doing whatever it is it's doing, and if I open more than one blank tab in the same iteration of IE, it just stops. Period. The only thing I can do at that point is turn the computer off and back on.
I do not want to change browsers. Can we just not go there? And maybe not even say anything about how I should anyway? All I want is to be able to use this feature again. On IE. Is there any way to shut off this "helpful" do-you-want-to-go-to-this-page-again thing so that I can just have my blank window back when I open a new tab?
Pretty please?
Thanks!
A couple of months ago, Microsoft sent me an XP upgrade. It went smoothly, as usual, but it changed something that seems to cause my computer to cough and sputter and if it gets too involved, freeze up altogether and require rebooting. That something is a feature I use regularly, esp. when reading LJ, and that is the option to "open in new tab" on IE. I am accustomed to opening in a new tab (as opposed to opening a new window) any individual LJ entry that I think I might want to reply to as I'm going through a page of entries, then go back and reply to them all at once at the end of my reading session. I often just open a blank page that way, too.
Except that when I open a blank page using "open in new tab" now, it's not blank. It's full of little boxes that tell me, these are the pages you've most recently visited, do you want to go to one of them, and apparently, the process of collecting this information is causing my computer to choke, because if I open just one, it stops everything (and I mean everything -- I can't even toggle to other open programs) for about thirty seconds until it's finished doing whatever it is it's doing, and if I open more than one blank tab in the same iteration of IE, it just stops. Period. The only thing I can do at that point is turn the computer off and back on.
I do not want to change browsers. Can we just not go there? And maybe not even say anything about how I should anyway? All I want is to be able to use this feature again. On IE. Is there any way to shut off this "helpful" do-you-want-to-go-to-this-page-again thing so that I can just have my blank window back when I open a new tab?
Pretty please?
Thanks!