shortcuts all lead to new windows being opened

please forgive if i've posted in the wrong area. over the last couple of
weeks, i seem to have turned on some feature that opens a new internet
explorer 6.0 window every time i link from a shortcut in my email or a link
embedded in a web page (even the ones that aren't supposed to open new pages
on purpose). i've already tried unchecking and rechecking the box in
internet options that says to reuse windows for shortcuts (or something like
that) but it isn't working. i'm open to any ideas! it's getting a little
bothersome on a laptop with no mouse closing the zillions of windows and i'm
losing my ability to go forward and backward through my pages visited due to
this. thanks so much!

Hello,

I would recommend you to post this in a newsgroup related to Internet
Explorer. You can find these newsgroups here:

<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/support/newsgroups/default.mspx" target="_blank">http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/support/newsgroups/default.mspx</a>

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Kristofer Gafvert
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"fitzmom" <fitzmom.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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 > please forgive if i've posted in the wrong area. over the last couple of
 > weeks, i seem to have turned on some feature that opens a new internet
 > explorer 6.0 window every time i link from a shortcut in my email or a
link
 > embedded in a web page (even the ones that aren't supposed to open new
pages
 > on purpose). i've already tried unchecking and rechecking the box in
 > internet options that says to reuse windows for shortcuts (or something
like
 > that) but it isn't working. i'm open to any ideas! it's getting a little
 > bothersome on a laptop with no mouse closing the zillions of windows and
i'm
 > losing my ability to go forward and backward through my pages visited due
to
 > this. thanks so much!<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->