Ronnie Vernon to task: Advice not working: IE Tab Option

Ronnie, I am very sorry. Either I am an idiot or there is something wrong
with the advice you gave me. From the standpoint of plain English, I must
admit I read that option the way you relayed it to me:

>Alex
>When you open Internet Options, look on the General Tab, next to the
>bottom.
>You should see 'Tabs'. Click the Settings Button and you'll see all of the
>options.
>Ronnie Vernon
>Microsoft MVP
>Windows Shell/User

I want to remind the whole issue. But before doing that I want to say that I
reset this option on TWO VISTA computers. It DOES NOT work on either of
them.

I set that option to: "Open links from other programs in:"

NEW WINDOW (right?) - I checked this option.

Before it was checked (default) "A new tab in current window"

This is the background. (I hate to quote myself and do it only under extreme
circumstances

>Uh, Andre, apparently you misunderstood me.It is a more complicated thing.
>I
>will try to explain although there is a chance, I will have to make more
>durable observations to document it.

>None of your advice will work. I tried the recent page menu and those
>precious urls are not there. Only those which I entered manually are added
>to the menu.

>I am primarily concerned with pages that I want to preview while I have
>another page open in Internet Explorer Browser.

>Let's say I went to MS website and got a page of MSDN documentation. There
>are many secondary label-links in the ASP and I can click one or two, view
>the content and I CAN GET BACK to the original MSDN documentation page by
>using the back button. None of the pages I visited will be in the menu
>under any circumstances.

>So far so good! Here is the crucial point.

>Let's say I leave the Internet Browser with the page open on desktop and
>began reading some newsgroups like I am doing now. Let's say I see a link
>you recommend. I want to check it out. I click it and this link will open
>the new page in Internet Explorer Browser, my MSDN page with document I
>haven't finished is gone, at times I do not even remember what it was, very
>often I have a vague feeling that it was something important but THERE IS
>NO
>BACK BUTTON ENABLED.

>So I cannot get back to the page I just lost.

>You described to me a recipe for a much simple situation which is not a
>problem.

>Now, I swear this feature was introduced about two years ago in Internet
>Explorer Browser. Before that time you could go back as far as your history
>size that you set up allowed you to do.

>I WANT TO HAVE THIS FEATURE BACK. I have a gut feeling that there should be
>a switch somewhere or a parameter. It could be a command line exec, I do
>not
>care but I want it to be changed. It slows down my productivity because I
>cannot be on alert all the time. I keep forgetting. I click on a link and
>the previous page is gone. Often I wonder what it was.

>Thanks.