Why do task bar icons for IE not restore?

[lmnop]

Going nuts with this one: has anyone experienced some (though not all)
open IE windows not restoring from the taskbar? I find that this
occurs regardless of whether I have task bar grouping set to "on" or
"off", ie., to "glom" or to "not to glom". (definition of "Glomming"
ie., grouping in the task bar of all open windows for the same
application.)

Say, I'll have 5 IE windows open. At the moment, I have the tool bar
set to non grouping (but this behavior occurs even with grouping on.)

For reasons that remain a mystery, some of the IE windows will not
restore. The only workaround I've found is to minimize all of them,
then right-click on the tool bar, to cascade them all, and then work
through them all, to minimize the ones I don't want, until I get to the
one I do want to see.

I've never .

I am baffled by it, since I've never seen this behavior in Win 2K. But
I'm also surprised that I've been unable to find any comments about it
elsewhere on the Internet. Is this an XP idiosynchracy? Or does it
reflect a damaged registry? Or spyware? I've seen it on several Win
XP machines. I get the impression that it's common. If so, I would
think that others find it just as annoying as I do, and that someone
has figured out what can be done to prevent it.

Please advise!!!!

 

[Iceman]

Going nuts with this one: has anyone experienced some (though not all)
open IE windows not restoring from the taskbar? I find that this
occurs regardless of whether I have task bar grouping set to "on" or
"off", ie., to "glom" or to "not to glom". (definition of "Glomming"
ie., grouping in the task bar of all open windows for the same
application.)

Say, I'll have 5 IE windows open. At the moment, I have the tool bar
set to non grouping (but this behavior occurs even with grouping on.)

For reasons that remain a mystery, some of the IE windows will not
restore. The only workaround I've found is to minimize all of them,
then right-click on the tool bar, to cascade them all, and then work
through them all, to minimize the ones I don't want, until I get to the
one I do want to see.

I've never .

I am baffled by it, since I've never seen this behavior in Win 2K. But
I'm also surprised that I've been unable to find any comments about it
elsewhere on the Internet. Is this an XP idiosynchracy? Or does it
reflect a damaged registry? Or spyware? I've seen it on several Win
XP machines. I get the impression that it's common. If so, I would
think that others find it just as annoying as I do, and that someone
has figured out what can be done to prevent it.

Please advise!!!!

Your problem could be caused by spyware. Here's a good support page:
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm