Favorites open new window every time Thread last updated on 2003-06-23 07:13:08

Posted by member 1549 on 2003-06-16 07:15:21

I've been having a little issue with IE since switching back to Litestep, (well a couple but this is the one I'm wondering about at the moment) and I'd like to know if anyone else is having the same problem, or knows how to remedy it.

Every time I click on one of my 'Favorites','Links' or Internet shorcuts while running Litestep, it opens a new IE window for the link. I have IE set to reuse windows for shorcuts and don't have this problem while using Explorer.

Is anyone else having this problem, or is it just me?

Posted by member 1316 on 2003-06-16 15:10:20 link

just you...

Posted by member 1549 on 2003-06-16 17:17:21 link

Hmm.. For some reason my computer hates me. I think I'm going to reinstall windows, and try all this stuff over again.

Hmm.. speaking of which. I keep my Litestep Directory as "D:\Litestep" just in case I need to reinstall for some reason. Does litestep get funky if it isn't in the same drive as the OS?

Posted by member 424 on 2003-06-16 19:09:13 link

AFAIK ... nope ;)

Posted by member 1316 on 2003-06-17 13:50:27 link

it shouldn't, however, some themes may have locations hard coded for c:\litestep\... It shouldn't be done, but I have seen it a few times.

Posted by member 1549 on 2003-06-18 08:20:33 link

Ok, I reformatted, and reinstalled Windows just to make sure, and I still have the same problem. Even with the Simplicity theme using Litestep straight out of the box.

Posted by member 1316 on 2003-06-18 08:36:11 link

did it still happen before you installed Litestep this last time?

Posted by member 1549 on 2003-06-18 16:17:58 link

no, it didn't. It doesn't happen when Litestep isn't running as shell either. If I run Litestep on top of explorer, the problem goes away immediately.

Posted by member 7 on 2003-06-18 18:21:01 link

Could be the browse-in-new-process registry key or whatever it's called... though I think if you set it back to its original value you can't use explorer as your file manager

Posted by member 1316 on 2003-06-19 08:02:52 link

well, start using Opera. IE's too slow anyways. :P

Posted by member 910 on 2003-06-21 22:24:31 link

i've had some interesting problems between IE and LS in the past. I don't know if it really pertains to your situation, but since i don't run liteman.dll or any other sort of DDE server when under litestep, my problems stemmed from having the .html and .htm file type set up to use DDE. I unchecked the box, and it seemed to fix certain problems for me. It might help. Though i continually have to uncheck it.

Posted by member 1549 on 2003-06-23 07:13:08 link

Thanks for the tip Pika. It's definitely worth a try. I've kinda switched over to Mozilla at the moment, but I'll have to experiment with it. It sounds like it may work to me. (atleast DDE support had a tendency of messing things up in the old days from what I remember.)