Blank screen when new window open after clicking on a link in IE

When I'm on the Internet and click on a something that causes a
separate window to open the new window opens but the screen is blank.
For example, when I click on the QuickVote on the home page at
http://www.cnn.com or on the links at the bottom for Time magazine and
Fortune.

I have XP Professional. My AVG, Spybot, Spy Blaster, Ad Aware and MS
updates are up-to-date and my start up contains just 4 items and I
know what they are. I've done the usual defrag, scandisk, clean out
temp files, reboot. I've used Ad Shield since installing XP in
February and have very very few problems with pop-ups. Couldn't find
an answer Googling.



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It is possible that you do not have ActiveX installed or activated. Some
sites use it; but you should get a "can not display page properly"
indication when linking to the new page.

 

I do not get a "cannot display page properly" message. The screen and
address bar are blank.

I will check about ActiveX.

RXP

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i think wot u need to do is go to http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=281679
and follow the instructions.
I think this will solve the problem u'r having. I had it too, it comes on
for no apparent reason, it cud be down to many things, prob plugins being
installed and so on.
try it anyway...

 

Thank you BC and the other people that replied. I followed
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=281679 and that fixed the problem.

RXP

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Thanx mate, even 4 years after you posted this solution, it is still able to help me.